• HOT TICKET Jokes so wrong it’s gotta be Wright IT SEEMS LIKE Steven Wright hasn’t cracked a smile his whole life, yet this deadpan specialist has been making audiences laugh for some 25 years. The Boston native is known for lines like “When everything is coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane,” and “OK, […]

Due to early deadlines for the Veterans Day holiday, this week’s movie listings are incomplete. Please call theaters to verify times.  OPENING THIS WEEK “UNSTOPPABLE” (PG-13) Stars Denzel Washington, Chris Pine and Rosario Dawson. Directed by Tony Scott. A rail company frantically works to prevent an unmanned, half-mile-long freight train carrying combustible liquids and poisonous gas from […]

CONCERTS TODAY Noonday Concerts with Ray Cornils, organ, First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, Portland. Free. 775-3356. 12:15 p.m. Crooked Still, Americana, The Grand, Ellsworth. $25 at door; $20 in advance. 667-9500. 7:30 p.m. Andrea Beaton Band, roots/bluegrass, Unity Centre for the Performing Arts. $10. 948-7469.7:30 p.m. Elizabeth Cook, country, Bates College (Olin Arts Center), Lewiston. […]

This weekend’s Pops concerts showcase Steve Lippia singing Sinatra greats.

• CHEAP THRILL Have a seat — if your bid’s the best BID ON 50 one-of-a-kind chairs hand-painted by local artists and raise money for student community service projects at the Painting with a Purpose Auction. WHEN: 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday WHERE: Rines Auditorium, Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square HOW MUCH: $10 each; $25 […]

Space Gallery is right in the middle of its SCOPE visual arts film series (continuing tonight with the documentary “Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine”), and although the old saying “talking about music is like dancing about architecture” seems to suggest the futility of making a movie about artists, there have been […]

It’s fitting to meet Portland outfit Tin Ceilings on a rainy day. Like the unheralded rainstorms of a New England autumn starved for light, Tin Ceilings’ songs have a familiar melancholy to them. With a voice that recalls a soft Jim James (of My Morning Jacket), singer Randy Illian creates beaten blues like Townes Van […]

As a fluffy romcom it’s OK, but you’d expect more with a cast featuring McAdams, Keaton, Ford and Goldblum.