The WWE rides the ‘sports entertainment’ train into town.
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From the Editor: The 10 worst songs (stuck in your head)
Rolling Stone recently released yet another special “list” issue, this one on the so-called “500 Greatest Songs of All Time.” I think it’s about time someone looked at the other end of the spectrum. So, without further adieu, I give you my picks for “The 10 Worst Songs of All Time.” (I thought about coming […]
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‘American Moderns’ pay summer visit to Portland
THE PORTLAND MUSEUM OF ART opens its summer blockbuster today, “American Moderns: Masterworks on Paper from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum, 1910-1960.” THE EXHIBITION of mostly watercolors includes many key paintings and graphic work from Edward Hopper, John Marin and other giants of American modernism. The show is on view through Sept. 12. For more information, […]
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Calendar: Our picks for your best entertainment this week
Our picks for your best entertainment this week
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Music and Nightlife: Hot Ticket and Cheap Thrill
The top brass – here VICTOR WOOTEN, longtime bassist for Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, is one of the best-known players of the instrument around. He’s won five Grammy awards and he’s recorded and toured with fellow bass superstars Stanley Clarke and Marcus Miller under the name SMV. Now’s he’s bringing his bass-powered music to […]
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Art and Theater: Hot Ticket and Cheap Thrill
Hot Ticket: Not illegal to miss the POPS (but it should be) A SURE SIGN of summer’s arrival, it’s time again for the Kingfield POPS, one of western Maine’s leading cultural events. Saturday’s concert in Kingfield features the Bangor Symphony Orchestra and guest soloist Suzanne Nance, along with Greg Boardman and his fiddling sons, and […]
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Art and Theater: Everybody !zing
Turning music on its ear is the aim of ‘hot-rod community chorus’ !zing.
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Music and Nightlife: 50 Cent at the Colisee
Maine is becoming a destination for major rap acts.
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Children’s Museum celebrating ‘Caterpillar’ creator
THE FOLKS AT the Children’s Museum of Maine are celebrating the 81st birthday of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” author, Eric Carle. On June 25, kids can make their own collage storybooks and on June 26, they’ll read Carle’s “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?” and act out a story with animal puppets. Go […]