‘Red Riding Trilogy’ proves Brits know their thrillers
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Face the Music: Ease into September with old friend, local stars
Shawn Colvin, Phantom Buffalo and back-to-back jazz nights at Blue. See, I told you the transition into September wouldn’t be so bad. Enjoy the long weekend, play some badminton and go see some live music. That is all. Shawn Colvin is like an old friend. It’s OK that you haven’t talked for a while, […]
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Exhibition celebrates Kennebunk, Heartwood
HEARTWOOD COLLEGE OF ART’S art exhibition “Paint the ‘Bunk” will be Friday evening and Saturday at the Brick Store Museum, 117 Main St., Kennebunk. The exhibition celebrates Kennebunk’s unique qualities with about 200 pieces for sale at $200 each on a first-come basis. Artists include Ann Gable Allaire, Jayne Adams, DeWitt Hardy, Mimi Carpenter, Carol […]
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Indie Film: For novice Maine filmmaker, road to experience leads north
Being a Maine filmmaker means following your dreams, wherever they take you — film school, the local public access station, humping coffee on the set of a low-budget horror film in Wyoming. Even Irkutsk. Maine moviemaker Hannah Weddle’s story has taken her from Brunswick to film school at New York University to remote Russia and […]
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Got Tix?
The latest On sale 10 a.m. today — Semi Precious Weapons, 8 p.m. Oct. 9, Augusta Civic Center. $15. Ticketmaster.com; (800) 745-3000. On sale noon Sept. 10 — Phish, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 19, Augusta Civic Center. $60. Ticketmaster.com; (800) 745-3000. The locals Sept. 9 — Nanci Griffith, 8 p.m., Jonathan’s, Ogunquit. $45/$49. Jonathansrestaurant.com; 646-4526 […]
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What Ales You: Growlers let locavores get freshest possible beer to go
It has been legal for almost a year now for brew pubs in Maine to sell growlers of their own beer directly from a pub. As far as my research can tell, only the Liberal Cup in Hallowell and Run of the Mill in Saco, both owned by Geoff Houghton, have taken advantage of the […]
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Off Beat: Grown-ups, you won’t want to cut these classes
Elementary school kids think they’re so darn special. Back to school they go, swarming the sidewalks with their scuff-free shoes and fancy backpacks. The bus swings down residential streets, picking them up at the curb like a personal valet — the kids aren’t even expected to pitch in for gas. And between the hectic glue-sticking […]
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Art and Theater: Lincoln Perry’s PLACE
The peripatetic artist shows sculpture and paintings in his summer hometown.
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From the Editor: Off to college? About that backpack
Ah, college. Days spent scrawling notes from a rambling professor’s lecture; afternoons spent trying to decipher said notes and wondering what the professor’s heart surgery 20 years prior had to do with the War of 1812; nights cramming for an exam in the local coffee shop while hoping to God that the guy bumming for […]
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Dining and Drink: Hot Ticket and Cheap Thrill
• HOT TICKET One the rocks or neat, Scotch tastings a treat IF YOU WANT to learn more about Scotch — and who doesn’t? — let bartenders Andy Kehoe and Jeff Grundy take you on their weekly guided tour of tasting regions at Bull Feeney’s, where the bar stocks 76 single malt Scotch whiskies. WHERE: Bull […]