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Art and Theater Listings
• CLASSICAL MUSIC FRIDAY DaPonte String Quartet, Second Congregational Church, Newcastle. $18-$20; tickets at the door, free for ages 21 and under. 529-4555. 7:30 p.m. SATURDAY UMF Community Chorus, University of Maine (Nordica Auditorium), Farmington. $6; $5 for seniors. 778-7072. 7:30 p.m. Saturday; 3 p.m. Sunday. DaPonte String Quartet, St. Mary the Virgin Church, Falmouth. […]
Et Cetera: Hot Ticket and Cheap Thrill
• HOT TICKET Be an angel and check this out FOR THE PERSON who has everything, buy an artist-created angel, with the proceeds supporting the Center for Grieving Children during the “108 Angels Project” reception. WHEN: 5:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday WHERE: Elizabeth Moss Gallery, 251 Route 1, Falmouth HOW MUCH: Free admission INFO: www.108angels.com • […]
Bull Moose Top 10
Top 10 for Portland store Nov. 22-28: 1. Kanye West, “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” 2. Various artists, “Greetings from Area Code 207: Vol. 8” 3. “Little Miss Sunshine” (DVD) 4. “Death at a Funeral” (DVD) 5. “The Expendables” (DVD) 6. “Super Troopers” (DVD) 7. Space Versus Speed, “Space Versus Speed” 8. “Slumdog Millionaire” […]
Music and Nightlife: Hot Ticket and Cheap Thrill
• HOT TICKET Clinton and P-Funk Saturday at State GEORGE CLINTON and Parliament Funkadelic basically put the word “funk” in our musical vocabulary, influencing a whole slew of musicians starting back in the early 1970s and providing samples to hip-hop songs for almost as long. P-Funk’s lineup is ever-changing, but Clinton is always at the helm. […]
Eat and Run: Where’s Waldo’s?
When you find it, you may want to stop. And if you try the food, you may find yourself stopping again and again.
What Ales You: Epic fail on holiday ales redeemed by winter brews
Since I found the holiday ales so disappointing last week, Nancy and I decided we had to jump right back on the bar stool and try some winter brews as opposed to Christmas or holiday brews. So, the Saturday after Thanksgiving, I went to Shaw’s and the Pond Cove IGA in Cape Elizabeth and found […]
Et Cetera Listings
• BENEFITS FRIDAY Art auction, benefits Lucid Stage, Lucid Stage, Portland. www.LucidStage.com. 5 to 8 p.m. SATURDAY Kimmy’s Odd Ball and FUNdraiser, with catered VIP reception, performances by eight bands, vendors, dancers, poets and more; benefits the Open Sky Fund. 21-plus. Port City Music Hall, Portland. $20-$75. www.portcitymusichall.com. 5 p.m. Holiday Craft Fair, benefits the […]
Movie Review: Formulaic shoot-em-up fizzles fast and ‘Faster’
Dwayne Johnson is a man of few words and many bullets in “Faster,” an action film designed to re-invent the kid-friendly ex-wrestler as one bad mutha and relaunch the stumbling CBS Films by finding one genre the company can get right. It fails at both, pretty much, stumbling into a poor George Tillman imitation of […]