You needn’t be 007 or schooled in the espionage arts to enter a team in Saturday’s race to find a missing secret agent. Join the fun — it’ll leave you spy high.
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Music and Nightlife: Listings
• CONCERTS TODAY Portland Jazz Orchestra, Chris Oberholtzer and his 18-piece ensemble perform big band swing, One Longfellow Square, Portland, $5 in advance and for students and seniors; $9 at door. www.onelongfellowsquare.com. 8 p.m. Rodney Crowell, country/rock, Stone Mountain Arts Center, Brownfield. $30. stonemountainartscenter.com. 8 p.m. Maeve Gilchrist Quartet, traditional Scottish music and jazz, Unity […]
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Et Cetera: Novelist Nunez keynoter at USM program Friday
THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE Women and Gender Studies program will hold its annual Women’s History Month dinner and keynote lecture on Friday. Award-winning novelist and City University of New York distinguished professor Elizabeth Nunez is the speaker. Nunez’s lecture is titled “Between Two Worlds: The Immigrant’s Price for a Better Life.” Nunez is the […]
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Face the Music: Portland’s Venue on hold, but local scene still rocking
Can you feel it? The approach of spring? I can’t either, but let’s pretend so we can somehow make it through this month regardless of what is dumped, blown and plowed on us. February, besides delivering too much snow, also saw the sad closing of Venue American Grille in Portland. Investors unexpectedly pulled out, and […]
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Indie Film: Rated Local film fest bringing worthy shorts to the big screen
Get ready Maine filmmakers, the big screen is calling. It’s getting easier all the time for aspiring movie mavens to make their own films. And thanks to that crazy Internet I’ve been hearing so much about, it’s also pretty easy for those movies to be seen by large numbers of people. But seeing your work […]
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Something to Gaines
There’s something indefinable – and indefinably good – about Jeffrey Gaines, who plays One Longfellow on Saturday.
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The Movies: This is war
Don’t expect much comic relief in ‘Battle: Los Angeles,’ an us-against-aliens combat flick that blows things up spectacularly and careens along at a video-game pace.
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Art and Theater: Hot Ticket and Cheap Thrill
• HOT TICKET USM brings the music and the romance “TRIUMPH OF LOVE,” a musical romance by the University of Southern Maine Department of Theatre and School of Music, opens this weekend. Assunta Kent directs the Broadway-style show, while Edward Reichert provides musical direction. WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 5 p.m. Sunday and Wednesday. […]
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Movie Review: What a very grim film they’ve made, Grandma
Catherine Hardwicke tries to transfer her panting pretty young thing “Twilight” style to “Red Riding Hood,” a werewolf-without-the-vampires fantasy aimed at that magical PG-13 audience. And for all the heaving bosoms, the big-eyed flirtation and the cool fairytale hair products, it doesn’t work. Amanda Seyfried has the title role. She is Valerie, who wears the […]
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Movie Review: ‘Mars Needs Moms’ a nice tale that could use more laughs
You’ll want to stay through the closing credits of the new motion-capture animated adventure “Mars Needs Moms,” a film from the people who gave us “The Polar Express.” There are four minutes of clips of the real-live cast of the film — Seth Green, Joan Cusack and Dan Fogler among them — wearing the mo-cap […]