Owner Michael Boland and his wife, Deirdre Swords, opened Havana 11 years ago, bringing Latin culture and food to Bar Harbor. Last June, they opened Havana South, providing Portland with “American fine dining with a Latin flair.” Located on Wharf Street, the new place takes up the space that formerly housed three bars and restaurants, […]
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Dining and Drink: Hot Ticket and Cheap Thrill
• Hot Ticket Books, food, wine — recipe for a great day MEET TWO OF Maine’s best-known food mavens at this book signing and launch party for two newly revised Maine cookbooks. Chef Melissa Kelly, James Beard award winner and proprietor of Primo in Rockland, provided new annotations and updated recipes for “Cooking Down East” […]
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Bull Moose Top 10
Top 10 for Portland store Oct. 4-10 1. “Iron Man 2” (DVD) 2. Guster, “Easy Wonderful” 3. “Nightmare on Elm Street” (2010) (DVD) 4. NBA 2K11 for X360 5. The Avett Brothers, “Live — Vol. 3” 6. Bebe Buell, “Sugar” 6. Mumford & Sons, “Sigh No More” 8. “The Karate Kid” (DVD) 9. “Family Guy: […]
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Music and Nightlife: Hot Ticket and Cheap Thrill
• CHEAP THRILL Go on — Stowaway free at Empire THE STOWAWAYS are an all-star band of Maine musicians that mix folk, bluegrass and sea chanteys in a no-cover show every Monday to a 21-and-older crowd at Empire Dine & Dance in downtown Portland. WHEN: 8:30 p.m. Monday WHERE: Empire Dine & Dance, 575 Congress […]
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Dining and Drink Listings
Foliage Food and Wine Festival, workshops, tours, tastings and more. Various locations, Blue Hill. www.bluehillpeninsula.org. Today. Hot Pot Harvest Stew, all-ages do-it-yourself harvest brunch; dig, pick and process garden vegetables, then add them to a stew. Registration encouraged. Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay. $4. 633-4333. Noon Sunday. Halloween Cookie Decorating, University of Maine (Olsen Student […]
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Dining and Drink: Let’s be reasonable
YOU WANT GOOD FOOD CHEAP? YOU WANT DEB’S.
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Et Cetera Listings
BENEFITS FRIDAY Live auction, benefits the Penobscot Bay Regional Chamber of Commerce, Elks Club, Rockland. www.therealmaine.com. 5 to 6 p.m. (preview), 6 to 9 p.m. (auction). Alive in Lewiston, family-friendly event with live music, locally-made art and food; benefits Lots to Gardens. St. Mary’s Nutrition Center of Maine, Lewiston. $5-$15; reservations required. 6:30 p.m. Rising […]
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Et Cetera: Five cool festivals, one pleasin’ season
With the pumpkins sufficiently plump and the cornstalks rustling in the wind, the time has come to celebrate this year’s harvest. You’ll find plenty of autumnal bounty this weekend, when pie, hayrides and pumpkin carving fill harvest festivals across the state. At Saturday’s New Gloucester Community Fair, event chairman Michael Bardier said the harvest will […]
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First up, this Friday: My Morning Jacket
Rock fans love fanciful stories about how bands got together, or how they got their names. So it’s no wonder that if you search for My Morning Jacket online, you’ll see lots of mentions of how the members found a jacket at the scene of a fire, and the initials MMJ were on it. “Yeah, […]
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CD review: Good’s debut album mixes influences with mixed results
Reach out to your inner Parrothead when you first encounter Portland songwriter David Good’s debut, “35 Below.” Good’s got a sharp pop sensibility, so the tunes themselves won’t do you any wrong. He dabbles in homage to The Doobie Brothers, James Taylor and, a mere two minutes in, the first outright reference to “The Buff” […]