Top 10 for Portland store May 10-16 1. The National, “High Violet” 2. “Legion” (DVD) 3. The Dead Weather, “Sea of Cowards” 3. “Edge of Darkness” (DVD) 5. “Daybreakers” (DVD) 6. “Avatar” (DVD) 7. “Avatar” (Blu-ray and DVD) 7. Josh Ritter, “So Runs the World Away” 7. “Skate 3” for Xbox 360 10. “Daria: The […]
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Calendar for 05/20/2010
– Art Openings “The Search for Beauty: Whistler and His Time,” continues through Jan. 2, Colby College (Museum of Art), Waterville. www.colby.edu. Today. “Life Unfiltered,” radio, writing and photography stories; continues through July 9, Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, Portland. 761-0660. Reception 5 to 8 p.m. today. “The Way Life Should Be,” Maine Art Gallery, […]
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Cheap Thrill: Let your inner child/architect blossom in LEGO contest
The 21-plus crowd gets a chance to return to childhood while still having the privileges of adulthood on Saturday. Adults may participate in a LEGO build competition at Empire Dine and Dance in Portland, which benefits Habitat for Humanity of Greater Portland. For every $5 donation, competitors get a “pint” of LEGOs with which to […]
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Comics festival is NOT a convention – it’s about art
Move over Superman. Hello Mr. Darcy. Those who haven’t been following the world of comics and graphic novels may be stunned to learn that graphic novels are not just stories about guys in capes and tights. Not only can you read Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” or Dante’s “The Inferno” in graphic novel format, you […]
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DVD Releases
NEW ON DVD AND BLU-RAY “EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES,” starring Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser. Moving if a bit bland, “Measures” is an all-too-rare case of a sensitive and worthwhile family drama, with Ford channeling just enough of his old wily persona to play Dr. Robert Stonehill, an often irascible fringe researcher whose recent discoveries just might […]
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Eat & Run: A Maine icon – Pat’s Pizza – has landed in Portland
PORTLAND – It’s about time. Pat’s Pizza has finally opened a restaurant in Portland. The newest addition to the Pat’s Pizza empire opened this spring at 30 Market St. in the Old Port, just up from Fore Street. Pat’s is a Maine institution. Its roots go back to the early 1930s in Orono, though it’s […]
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Got Tix?
Concerts and shows currently on sale: The latest On sale 10 a.m. Friday — “A Prairie Home Companion” with Garrison Keillor, 8 p.m. Aug. 19, Meadowbrook U.S. Cellular Pavilion, Gilford, N.H. $39 to $74. www.meadowbrook.net; (603) 293-4700 On sale 10 a.m. Friday –Christina Aguilera with Leona Lewis, 7:30 p.m. July 31, Comcast Center, Mansfield, Mass. […]
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Had to happen: Find cheap beer online
Sure, budgets are tight. But it’s not like we’re going to stop drinking beer. We’ll forgo cable. We’ll hit the laundromat monthly rather than weekly. We’ll cut our own hair, eat out less and pilfer toilet paper from the office. We’ll come up with a hundred ways to pinch our pennies. But abandon happy hour? […]
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Indie Films: This ‘House’ of horror needs a bit more of the scary stuff
If you don’t like horror movies, you should probably just skip to Eat & Run this week. Me, I love horror movies. Apart from sublime dread seemingly vibrating the primeval center of my brain (from the great ones), or the squirmy kicks of sneaking in what your parents don’t want you to see (the sleazy, […]