Wow, the Halloween candy surplus situation in my office is troubling. Wow, the thrust into “the holiday season” is startling. And wow, there’s a lot going on this week. I’m highlighting two shows, but will also deliver a string of one-liners about several others. I trust you to figure out the details, because you’re all […]

I’ve been waiting for this day to arrive for a very long time — 10 years (give or take), to be exact. That was when I first heard Andi Fawcett sing with the band Relish. Since then, Fawcett’s been involved in a couple of other music projects, but I always knew the day would come […]

CLASSICAL MUSIC TODAY Kronos Quartet, Merrill Auditorium, Portland. $36-$42; $10 for students. www.porttix.com. 7:30 p.m.  FRIDAY “Something Borrowed, Something Blue,” with the Portland Wind Trio, University of Southern Maine (Corthell Concert Hall), Gorham. $5-$15. www.usm.maine.edu/music. 8 p.m.  SATURDAY Southern Maine Symphony Orchestra, Gorham Middle School. $3-$6. 780-5555. 8 p.m. Augusta Symphony Orchestra, with the Androscoggin […]

Top 10 for Portland store Oct. 25-31 1. Taylor Swift, “Speak Now” 2. Fable 3 for X360 3. Bob Dylan, “The Bootleg Series, Vol. 9 — The Witmark Demos” 4. Kings of Leon, “Come Around Sundown” 5. “Sex and the City 2” (DVD) 6. Elton John and Leon Russell, “The Union” 7. “The Venture Bros.” […]

The premise of the new Maine film “Killing Toni”: “A guy gathers his friends together to murder his ex-girlfriend once he finds out she’s a lesbian.” It’s a comedy. If comedy is hard, then dark comedy is harder. Creating laughs out of subjects (in the case of “Killing Toni,” murder, misogyny and homophobia) which are […]

• HOT TICKET Come along on a spoofy  trip to ‘Forbidden Broadway’  PORTLAND OVATIONS brings the cabaret-style spoof “Forbidden Broadway” to town. The show, which has been rewritten many times since its debut in the early 1980s, pokes fun at showtunes, characters and plots of contemporary Broadway hits. WHEN: 8 p.m. Friday WHERE: Merrill Auditorium, 20 […]