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Face the Music: Triple-header lineup: gypsy jazz, big band and bluegrass
Pitchers and catchers report one month from tomorrow. What? Who said that? Surely not I. It must be the January frost on my brain. Nothing that a little Saturday-night gypsy jazz, big band, folk and bluegrass can’t cure. It’s all courtesy of The George Cole Quintet, The Fogcutters Big Band and Ramblin’ Red. You’ve got […]
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Making Noise: Troubadour James rejects limits on his music making
A thoughtful, cheeky, immense talent with a smidge of smarm, Sam James is an original, a troubadour with his trusty ax who calls it like he sees it. From humble beginnings in Portland, James’ act has caught fire and carried him around the world and back. His patented grumble is a worthy match for his […]
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Music and Nightlife: Hot Ticket and Cheap Thrill
• HOT TICKET Voodoo Daddy — Big, Bad and back BIG BAD VOODOO DADDY was one of the most visible and prolific of the bands that helped re-establish swing music as cool back in the 1990s. But you know what? It’s still cool, and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy is still going strong, having performed on “Dancing […]
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From the Editor: Wham! Thwack! These returns would be super at the box office
Friday’s release of “The Green Hornet” kicks off a year of superhero movies. Big-screen adaptations of Thor, the Green Lantern, X-Men (a prequel) and Captain America will be smacking around villains at a multiplex near you over the coming months, providing much-needed antidotes to a mountain of dreck that includes “Take Me Home Tonight,” “The […]
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What Ales You: Worth going out of your way to sample the ales at Bray’s
This is almost embarrassing to admit, but I made my first-ever trip to Bray’s Brew Pub in Naples last week. I had heard great things about the pub and its beer, but being an hour away, I had never made the effort to make a special trip. And on the many times I’ve driven by, […]
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‘Knight’ the cream of the superheroes camp
This week’s release of “The Green Hornet” fills a movie/comics nerd/geek like me with guarded optimism. On the one hand, the offbeat casting of an improbably buffed-out Seth Rogen and the unexpected entrusting of a potential superhero franchise to art-filmy director Michel Gondry (“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”) promises something unique. On the other, […]
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Movie Review: ‘Season of the Witch’ is one for the Dark Ages
Nicolas Cage flashes those pearly whites, chews some striking Austrian, Hungarian and Croatian scenery, and collects another check for “Season of the Witch,” the latest in a long, almost uninterrupted run of junk movies that are beneath an actor of his Oscar-winning caliber. “Witch” has him playing a wayward knight forced to escort an accused […]
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At the Movies
OPENING “THE GREEN HORNET” (1:48) (PG-13) Stars Seth Rogen, Jay Chou and Christoph Waltz. Directed by Michel Gondry. night, debonair newspaper publisher Britt Reid fights crime as a masked superhero known as the Green Hornet. At his side is martial arts expert Kato. Violent action, language, sensuality and drug content. Opening at: Cinemagic Westbrook Fri-Wed […]
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Music and Nightlife listings
• CONCERTS TODAY Portland Jazz Orchestra, One Longfellow Square, Portland. $5 in advance and for students and seniors; $9 at door. 761-1757. 8 p.m. Noonday Concerts with Harold Stover, organ, and Jennifer Elowich, violin; First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, Portland. Free. 775-3356. 12:15 p.m. Winter Vocal Festival with Moira Smiley and VOCO, Improvox and others; […]