Now would be a great time to kick up your heels and join your fellow Mainers on the dance floor.
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Eat and Run: Value added at DiPietro’s
The market serves up generous portions of flavorful favorites.
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Face the Music: Global sounds give 2011 a worldly beginning
On Saturday, let us all wish a very happy birthday to Elvis Presley, my brother Joey and, especially, to David Bowie. I can’t believe the Thin White Duke is 64. I have a clipping in my Bowie scrapbook with the caption “David Bowie, 36.” I guess time is waiting in the wings for all of […]
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Off Beat: Here’s to the gamers (and you know who you are)
A kid can be a kid at Chuck. E. Cheese’s. But when a dozen 35-year-olds show up for a harmless after-work Skee-Ball marathon, it suddenly becomes a “security issue.” A grown-up looking to play a raucous round of ping-pong or air hockey might be hard pressed these days to find a place to live out […]
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Music and Nightlife: Hot Ticket and Cheap Thrill
• HOT TICKET Hustle to hear hurdy-gurdy THE MEMBERS OF Le Vent du Nord, hailing from Quebec, play rousing traditional folk music and sing in their native French. Plus, how often do you get to see someone play the hurdy-gurdy? WHEN: 8 p.m. Friday WHERE: One Longfellow Square, 181 State St., Portland HOW MUCH: $25 in […]
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Art and Theater: Hot Ticket and Cheap Thrill
• HOT TICKET It’s a Portland-Bollywood boogie “TRUE AT FIRST LIGHT” brings together music and dance from Portland and beyond featuring West African- inspired dance by Blue Moon Tribe with Bollywood Dance, Vince Nez, Phil James and Taiko Maine Dojo. WHEN: 5 and 8 p.m. Saturday WHERE: Mayo Street Arts, 10 Mayo St., Portland HOW MUCH: […]
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Dining and Drink: Hot Ticket and Cheap Thrill
• HOT TICKET Learn to cook Rwandan food CHANCES ARE you have no idea what umutsima (cassava and corn), isombe (cassava, eggplant and spinach) and mizuzu (fried plantains) are, but you can learn Friday at a cooking demonstration of Rwandan food. The demonstration will be followed by a traditional Rwandan meal. WHEN: 5:30 p.m. Friday WHERE: […]
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Art and Theater lisings
• CLASSICAL MUSIC Noonday Concert with Dean Stein, violin, First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, Portland. Free. 775-3356. 12:15 p.m. today. Epiphany Celebration with Choral Art Society a cappella group CAS Camerata, Immanuel Baptist Church, Portland. $20 at door. 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Sunday Afternoon Concert Series with The Lefthand Canyon Trio, chamber music, First Congregational Church, […]