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CD Review: If ‘Spare Parts’ was food, it would be great home cookin’
The decision to not take yourself too seriously as a recording artist is one that bears considerable fruit over a long career. Wooden Eye, a Berwick-based roots-blues outfit, recalls less-is-more legends like Lyle Lovett and Randy Newman with a casual delivery and small-town songs. The band’s approach on its latest record, aptly titled “Spare Parts, […]
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Music and Nightlife Listings
• CONCERTS TODAY USM Jazz Ensembles, University of Southern Maine (Corthell Concert Hall), Gorham. www.usm.t.edu. $3-$6. 7:30 p.m. Nanci Griffith, folk, Strand Theatre, Rockland. $43. 594-0070. 7 p.m. Noonday Concert with Laura Kargul, piano, and Ronald Lantz, violin, First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, Portland. Free. 775-3356. 12:15 p.m. Tom Rush, folk; 21-plus. The Landing at […]
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Music and Nightlife: CHARO
‘My English sucks,’ the ’70s icon admits, but fans unlikely to care can see Charo sing and strum in Brownfield on Wednesday.
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Off Beat: Naughty
But isn’t it nice to have Santacon and Santa Sunday – two events that help adults get their jingle on.
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Face the Music: Off to see ‘The Wizard,’ Fishman and the Odd Ball
While I’ve got some terrific shows to tell you about this week, I’m feeling sentimental and emotional, so please bear with me for a moment. It’s my U2 anniversary. Every Dec. 2, I listen to U2 and think back to the most unforgettable (U2 pun most certainly intended) show I’ve ever been to: U2 at […]
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Pair of plays lets cops be cops, kids be kids for greater good
Students and police officers get the chance to air their beefs about their lives, their jobs and their attitudes toward one another in an evening of original drama. Art at Work, a national initiative piloted by the city of Portland to improve government through art, presents “Forest City Times” from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Dec. […]
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Indie Film: Pursuing film in New York, but still drawn to Maine
Every aspiring Maine filmmaker is faced with a choice: Do I leave the state and try to make it somewhere more film-friendly, or do I make my films here at home and try to get the rest of the world to notice them? Well, for Harpswell native Jessica Caldwell, the answer is both. In “Lobster,” […]
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From the Editor: Read this, and if ever a whiz there was, it’ll be you
In honor of the State Theatre’s big-screen showing of “The Wizard of Oz” on Friday, I present to you some trivia associated with the classic 1939 film. Feel free to use these tidbits in conversation with your friends so they’ll think you’re an Oz fanatic — or just plain weird. (Me, I never had a […]
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Skyler, York’s ascendant teen, to rule the Empire on Dec. 19
Maine-based teen heartthrob Skyler has been doing this gig for a while; he’s almost at the point where he’s got a bit of a routine. At a time when most of us were vroom-vrooming our trucks in the sandbox, Skyler was wooing ladies with dulcet vocals by the swingsets. seventh grade, when we were lamenting […]