• HOT TICKET Imagine … a project to honor a Beatle THE JOHN LENNON SONG PROJECT is a seven-piece group created by Rex Fowler of Aztec Two-Step and Tom Dean of Maine-based Devonsquare. The group will be playing Lennon’s music at a CD-release party Saturday night. WHEN: 8 p.m. Saturday WHERE: One Longfellow Square, 181 State […]

After holding down the corner of Spring and High streets for more than 12 years, Katahdin closed its doors one year ago. But owner Becky Lee Simmons and partner Winnie Moody are back in a big way after taking over the space that once housed George’s Bakery, and are rebuilding the place from floor to […]

Charlie Gaylord’s Cornmeal Records and radio station WBLM — in association with Maine Magazine and Shipyard Brewing — have given us yet another reason to love and appreciate our local musicians with the latest “Greetings from Area Code” compilation. We’re up to volume eight with this collection, and it was 10 years ago this month […]

Like many Danny Boyle movies, including “28 Days Later,” “Millions” and “Slumdog Millionaire,” “127 Hours” is an against-all-odds survival saga. Its ostensible subject is Aron Ralston, the outdoorsman trapped in a Utah canyon by a falling boulder that pinned his right hand and forearm to the red rock. But the true subjects of Boyle’s film […]

The nice thing about thoughts is no one else can hear them. If they could, it’d be a lot harder to keep a job, dine with your mother-in-law or lie when your new girlfriend asks, “Am I’m prettier than your old girlfriend?” If thoughts were audible, I suspect some folks would find themselves spending a […]