• HOT TICKET Pig scramble and other pursuits THE CUMBERLAND COUNTY FAIR offers excitement, exhibits and entertainment all week long. Don’t miss the apple pie contest next Thursday, or the Pig Scramble on Oct. 2. Seniors get in for $2 on Tuesday and Thursday. WHEN: Sunday to Oct. 2. Opens at 7 a.m. every day except […]
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Et Cetera: Common Ground Country Fair
Part hippie, all hip: Art, music, exhibits, organic eats and more await fairgoers in Unity this weekend.
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Indie Film: Postings on A.V. Club website land Mainer gig of a lifetime
I’m a movie geek (duh), and my first destination on the Web is invariably the A.V. Club (www.avclub.com), sister site of the brilliantly satirical fake newspaper The Onion. Having recently learned that one of the A.V. Club’s best writers, Maine native Zack Handlen, lives right here in Portland, I thought I’d interview him (for a […]
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Bar Guide: The Local Buzz mixes comfort with wine-bar sophistication
I have two real vices in life — coffee and wine. Which is why I see that knowing that the Local Buzz in Cape Elizabeth is barely a 10-minute drive from Portland is going to be one of the best bad ideas I’ve ever had. The Local Buzz started like any good bar joke. A […]
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Dining and Drink: Hot Ticket and Cheap Thrill
• HOT TICKET Turning ‘Wine to Water’ aim of unique benefit YOU’VE HEARD the story of Jesus turning water into wine. That’s a trick ordinary folks can’t muster, but it is possible to do the reverse at Wine to Water, a benefit wine tasting to raise money for clean water in the Third World. Fifteen Washington […]
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Yogathon
Fifteen local studios will offer sessions Sunday in an event to benefit the Preble Street Resource Center.
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Liza Minnelli still winning hearts
Liza Minnelli is breathless. You can hear it as soon as she takes the phone from her publicist.
“I’m on a band break,” she chortles. “Sorry.”
Minnelli, 64, has spent the morning working up songs from her new CD, “Confessions.” She’ll perform some of them, as well as music from throughout her career, in a concert Wednesday at Portland’s Merrill Auditorium.
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Animated owls look good, but story struggles to soar
In the “Guardians of Ga’Hoole” novels of Kathryn Lasky, owls have mastered fire and metallurgy and have been known to play the lute as they sing their epic poems about epic battles from days of yore. And in the film about them, they all speak with Aussie accents. Zack Snyder’s film “Legend of the Guardians: […]
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Music and Nightlife: Hot Ticket and Cheap Thrill
• HOT TICKET Civic Center hosts Crow and Carlile SHERYL CROW will perform songs from her recent Top 5 album, “100 Miles From Memphis,” along with old favorites, at the Cumberland County Civic Center. Brandi Carlile opens. WHEN: 8 p.m. Friday WHERE: Cumberland County Civic Center, Spring and Center streets, Portland HOW MUCH: $45.50 to $60.50 […]