OPENING FRIDAY “BATTLE: LOS ANGELES” (1:56) (PG-13) Stars Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez and Bridget Moynahan. Directed by Jonathan Liebesman. As a full-scale alien invasion threatens Earth, in Los Angeles a veteran Marine staff sergeant leads his new platoon into battle with an uncommon enemy. Sustained and intense sequences of war violence and destruction, and for […]
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Clay show will highlight variety of pottery pieces
The York Art Association will host the Southern Maine Clay Guild’s third annual Winter Clay Show and Sale today to March 27. Hundreds of pottery pieces will be displayed, including decorative and functional items. The work will range from the horsehair raku pieces of Cathie Cantara to the shino-glazed ware of Mary Sweeney. Other featured […]
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From the Editor: Bring some Big Easy to the Big Freeze-y
Welcome to the special Mardi Gras issue of GO. Within these pages you will get the skinny on Mardi Gras parties, costume balls and concerts happening in the Greater Portland area, an interview with New Orleans legend Ivan Neville (who’s bringing his zydeco-jazz-rock-funk hybrid Dumpstaphunk to Port City Music Hall) and tips on how to […]
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Bull Moose Top 10
Top 10 for Portland store Feb. 21-27 1. Adele, “21” 2. “Due Date” (DVD) 3. “Weeds — Season 6” (DVD) 4. Mumford and Sons, “Sigh No More” 5. Grand Hotel, “In Color” 6. “Megamind” (DVD) 7. “Bulletstorm” for X360 8. Bright Eyes, “The People’s Key” 9. The Decemberists, “The King Is Dead” 10. The Low […]
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Dining and Drink listings
Dinner and book signing with Gabrielle Hamilton, chef and author of “Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef,” Grace, Portland. $120. 828-4422. 7 p.m. today. The Incredible Breakfast Cook-Off, Maine Restaurant Week’s breakfast competition benefiting Preble Street Resource Center; Sea Dog Brewing Company, South Portland. $15; $27 for two tickets. www.mainerestaurantweek.com. […]
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Ensembles raise voices for Big Brothers Big Sisters in Acappellooza 11
THEY DON’T NEED no stinkin’ instruments! Eight a cappella groups representing the University of Southern Maine, Colby College, Bates College, Bowdoin College and the University of New Hampshire converge on Portland during Acappellooza 11. The Portland-area women’s quartet Rally, pictured, also will perform at the multigenerational concert benefiting Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southern Maine. […]
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Dining and Drink: Hurricane Warning
It’s Mardi Gras – time for the fruity drink with the fearsome punch.
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Off Beat: Turn out the lights, the party’s starting
You can mini golf in the dark or enjoy an indoor rock climb or a pell-mell battle of extreme laser tag at a couple of cool new spots at the Mall.
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DVD Releases: Appeal of ‘Love’ surprises; HD enhances Disney classic
NEW ON DVD AND BLU-RAY “BURLESQUE,” starring Cher and Christina Aguilera. Unabashedly corny and over the top, this glitzy campfest finds Cher inhabiting the role she was perhaps born to play as Tess, owner of a popular but financially troubled “neo-retro-burlesque-blues” club who reluctantly takes on wannabe performer Ali (Aguilera, in her acting debut), a […]