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Hot Tickets and Cheap Thrills, July 14, 2011

Music and Nightlife: Paisley tour gallops into Scarborough IT ISN’T OFTEN that you get a star the caliber of Brad Paisley at a horse track, and it’s even rarer when that star has a hit album on the charts right now. Paisley will perform songs from his new hit album “This Is Country Music” along […]

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Team Potter goes out with a bang

With its haunted vistas, clanking battles, inspired effects, heroism, treachery, fragile alliances and moral ambiguity, the blockbuster finale of the Harry Potter saga achieves a supernatural splendor. The series has sputtered here and there over the last decade, losing its focus and tempo, but this climax is a triumph of spectacle and well-earned sentiment. “Potter” […]

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Music and Nightlife Listings

• CONCERTS TODAY Vishten, Prince Edward Island fiddling, dancing and song, One Longfellow Square, Portland. $17 in advance; $20 at door. onelongfellowsquare.com. 8 p.m. Makem and Spain Brothers, Irish folk music, Opera House at Boothbay Harbor. $18 in advance; $22 day of show. 633-5159. 7:30 p.m. (Doors at 7 p.m.) Summer Lakeside Concerts, with Crunchy […]

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Got Tix?

Concerts and shows currently on sale:  The latest On sale 10 a.m. Friday — The Pixies with Surfer Blood, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 1, State Theatre, Portland. $45. All ages. Statetheatreportland.com; (800) 745-3000; Cumberland County Civic Center box office On sale 10 a.m. Friday — Hanson, 8 p.m. Oct. 11, State Theatre, Portland. $25. All ages. […]

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Et Cetera Listings

• BENEFITS Bald Hill Boys, acoustic bluegrass, folk and rock concert with special guest pianist Dawson Hill; benefits conservation projects on Sabbathday Lake; Sabbathday Lake Grange, New Gloucester. $10; $5 for ages 18 and under. 926-4296. 7 p.m. Friday. Nicole’s 5K Run/Walk to Benefit Caring Unlimited, Lords Point, Kennebunk Beach. $20 to $25. nicolesrun.org.. Registration […]

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At the Movies

OPENING THIS WEEK “HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2” (2:10) (PG-13) Stars Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint. Directed by David Yates. The final chapter begins as Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest of finding and destroying the Dark Lord’s three remaining Horcruxes. Some sequences of intense action violence and frightening […]

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Art and Theater Listings

CLASSICAL MUSIC TODAY Time for Three, string trio, with Curtis on Tour, performing Mendelssohn’s “Octet,” Rockport Opera House. $30 to $45; $8 for students. baychamberconcerts.org. 8 p.m. Bowdoin International Music Festival: Artists of Tomorrow, student concert series, Bowdoin College (Studzinski Recital Hall), Brunswick. $10/donation. 725-3895. 6:30 p.m. today; noon Friday; 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and July […]