• BENEFITS Winter Beach Ball, refreshments, dancing and music by The Tony Boffa Band; benefits Eastern Maine Medical Center’s CancerCare of Maine; Bangor Civic Center. $30. 973-5055. 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. Friday. YOUth Can Build: LEGO House Buildathon, LEGO building contest benefitting Habitat for Humanity of Greater Portland; registration recommended. $20 per builder (waived for […]
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Dining and Drink listings
“Fermented Foods,” hands-on demo with Simon Frost of Thirty Acre Farm, Winslow Public Library. 873-7404. 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. today. 30th Annual MLK Celebration Dinner, interactive NAACP dinner with keynote address and youth MCs remembering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and discussing ways to alleviate poverty in our communities. Holiday Inn By the Bay, Portland. […]
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Off Beat: All hands on deck for arm wrestling showdown
For as long as there have been men on Earth, there have been manly ways of settling disputes. When Cro-Magnon men fought over girlfriends or cave property lines, they might have clubbed each other with logs or held speed-climbing competitions to decide who was the better man and who’d have to say goodbye to Sheila, […]
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Ventures into past dominate list of films to watch out for
My son has only one question regarding 2011 and its movies: Are those machine guns the Green Hornet has on the hood of his vehicle available for purchase without a permit? You try to raise these kids right, and then everything in popular culture conspires to turn them into weapons fetishists. Oh, well. I hope […]
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From the editor: Another year of lessons learned — or not
Things I learned in 2010: • Sometimes, it’s better to be in Maine during the winter — like when relatives in the South get more snow than we do. • Logic and facts don’t work as well as scare tactics and sound bites when trying to win an election. (Actually, this is a reaffirmation of […]
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Art and Theater: Wintry mix
2011 opens with a brisk, bountiful First Friday Art Walk.
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The Movies: Better late than never
It sat on the shelf for months, but don’t let that sway you. ‘Phillip Morris’ is a winner.
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Bull Moose Top 10
Top 10 for Portland store — Dec. 27-Jan. 1 1. “Resident Evil: Afterlife” (DVD) 2. Mumford and Sons, “Sigh No More” 3. Nicki Minaj, “Pink Friday” 4. Kanye West, “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” 5. Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, “Grace Potter and the Nocturnals” 6. “The Town” (DVD) 7. Florence and the Machine, “Lungs” […]
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Indie Film: Can ‘www’ become ‘$$$’ for filmmakers?
Filmmakers need money. No matter how artistically pure or staunchly anti-commercial they are, every filmmaker needs money to make their dream film anything more than a carefully printed screenplay stuck in a dusty drawer. The stories in indie film are legends: Robert Rodriguez selling his body (for medical experiments) to finance “El Mariachi”; Kevin Smith […]
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CD Review: Have no fear – Spooner’s ‘Sea Monster’ is lovable
In 2007, Jason Spooner released “The Flame You Follow,” and to this day, it remains one of my favorites — and I don’t just mean from a local musician. So when he sent me a copy of “Sea Monster,” I wondered if lightning could strike twice. Two songs in, I had my answer and made […]