Snappy, chilling, exquisite, lush — this makes a memorable Spouse
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DVD Releases: Lehane + Scorsese + DiCaprio = nailbiter deluxe
NEW ON DVD AND BLU-RAY: “SHUTTER ISLAND,” starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo. Master director Martin Scorsese meets master novelist Dennis Lehane (“Gone Baby Gone”) in this nail-biting adaptation, which finds U.S. Marshal DiCaprio searching for a murdering asylum escapee on the remote location of the title, an overwhelming assignment that soon leads him to […]
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For veteran director, challenge is in reimagining ‘Always’
Chan Harris is best known to audiences of Maine State Music Theatre in Brunswick as an actor. He appeared many years ago in “Tommy” and two years ago in “Jesus Christ Superstar.” Harris is back this summer, and this time he’s working as director for the season-opening show “Always Patsy Cline.” The musical pays tribute […]
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Free music, all kinds, all day, at the Old Port Festival
There’s nothing like free live music to get people in a festive mood. And free music is a definite focus of the 37th Annual Old Port Festival happening Sunday in downtown Portland. There will be six music “stages” set up throughout the Old Port, with different acts all afternoon. The festival’s organizer, Portland’s Downtown District, […]
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Cheap Thrill: Dining and Drink
Give your palate an adventure with dishes at the Bayside fair.
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From the Editor: Go on, give it a look and let us know
Welcome to the first issue of the new GO. What you are holding in your hands (or reading on your computer screen) is the result of several months of discussions, meetings, designs, re-designs, planning and good old-fashioned hard work on the part of the Features staff and numerous others at The Portland Press Herald, all […]
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Got tix?
THE LATEST On sale 10 a.m. Friday – KISS, 6:30 p.m. Aug. 7, Comcast Center, Mansfield, Mass. $20.50 to $125. Ticketmaster.com; (800) 745-3000 On sale 10 a.m. Friday – Stone Temple Pilots, 7:30 p.m. Sept. 1, Bank of America Pavilion, Boston. $40 to $54. Ticketmaster.com; (800) 745-3000 On sale 10 a.m. Friday – Black Crowes, […]
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Art and Theater: Have a seat
Ogunquit Playhouse opens its season today with ‘The Drowsy Chaperone,’ starring Carson Kressley as the Man in Chair.
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Movie review: Jaden Smith is no Ralph Macchio, kids
Fellow children of the ’80s: Merely pondering the possibility of a “Karate Kid” remake tears at the very fiber of our adolescence. No one else needs to say the words “wax on-wax off” ever again. No teen bully could possibly be as slickly menacing as Billy Zabka. And as climactic showdown songs go, nothing could […]
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Making Noise: Marion Grace sired on ‘Yup’ and a tank farm
It’s been a cranked 2010 for Ralph Graceffa and his ramblin’-on outfit Marion Grace. Lighting the fuse was dropping the immensely buzz-worthy debut, “Lying Down, Looking Up,” earlier this year, but the dynamite may not have even gone off yet. Take, for example, the band’s announcement of a Marion Grace feature film with the help […]