• HOT TICKET Beethoven gets all-star treatment BAY CHAMBER CONCERTS wraps up the summer season with its First Chairs All-Star concert, a mostly Beethoven program. The performers are A-list luminaries including Joseph Silverstein and Nurit Bar-Josef on violin and Anne Martindale Williams on cello. WHEN: 8 tonight WHERE: Rockport Opera House, 6 Central St. HOW MUCH: […]

Don’t expect snowmen fashioned from Styrofoam balls or apple-stenciled wall plaques at this Saturday’s Picnic Music+Arts Festival in Portland’s Lincoln Park. Instead, this annual indie craft fair serves up a decidedly funkier assortment of goods, such as handknit fingerless gloves, handstitched felt monsters and handmade rubber couture. Mixed in with the crafters will be vendors […]

ROBERT MILLER, a lobsterman from Beals Island, moonlights as an artist in the tradition of John Marin. Or maybe it’s the other way around — Miller may well be an artist first, a lobsterman second. Either way, he shows his work in a quick exhibition, from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Old Schoolhouse, […]

• HOT TICKET Trainer to give pointers to pooch owners at party BRING YOUR four-legged friend to a cocktail party at Planet Dog featuring master dog trainer Sarah Wilson. Wilson will conduct a training demo, answer questions and sign books while you sip free beer and wine and enjoy snacks. WHEN: 5 to 8 tonight WHERE: […]

• HOT TICKET After class, you’ll have ahi tuna licked LEARN HOW to make an ahi tuna lollipop with ginger macadamia sauce, a specialty from Fiji, at a Maine appearance by California celebrity chef Bernard Guillas. The chef will be signing his debut cookbook, “Flying Pans — Two Chefs, One World,” and preparing the tuna as […]

For the past three weeks I have been drinking a lot of new beer — one of the advantages of writing this column. Some of it shows up at the office, for which I am grateful, and others people bring to me. Magic Hat, a craft brewer from Vermont, sent me three beers that are […]

Next time you’re soaking in the carnival musk of Old Orchard Beach, put this in your rum punch and sip it: The Pier at OOB is like the Wes Welker of 20th-century Maine nightlife. Beginning in 1898 and continuing to the present day, the plucky structure has taken the tough hits from Mother Nature and […]

The title “Get Low” is an aphorism Felix Bush (Robert Duvall) uses to mean “get down to business.” Felix is a cranky old coot who lives in seclusion in the Tennessee woods, far removed from town, where everyone thinks he is a crazy, dangerous hermit who once killed some men in a fist fight. Felix, […]

Frank Pierobello straddles Portland’s nightlife and arts scenes — as the proprietor of a popular pub and a painter of local renown.