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Record Store Day and its freebies: Inspired locally, observed globally
Music lovers in the United States and 18 other countries share a special date every third Saturday in April: Record Store Day. The brainchild of Chris Brown, vice president of marketing and operations at Portland-based Bull Moose, Record Store Day is a celebration of music and of independent record stores all over the world. This […]
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‘Passion of the Hausfrau’ will play for fresh laughs
The Hausfrau is back. Tonight and Friday in Lewiston and beginning Wednesday in Brunswick, actress Bess Welden restages “The Passion of the Hausfrau: An Illuminated Solo Comedy.” The one-woman play chronicles the misadventures of a mother riding the roller coaster of parenthood. Welden helped create the play with writer Nicole Chaison. In 2003, Chaison started […]
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Cover Story: Easy does it
A relaxed Vince Gill visits Portland on Wednesday to play ‘what people want to hear’
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Go See a Movie
OPENING FRIDAY “Cheech & Chong’s Hey Watch This” (R) Stars Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong. Directed by Christian Charles. A documentary based on Cheech & Chong’s “Light Up America” reunion tour. Drug content, crude sex-related humor and language throughout. Opening Friday at: Nickelodeon (Portland) “Death at a Funeral” (R) (1:30) Stars Zoe Saldana, Keith David, […]
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Bull Moose Top 10
Top 10 for Portland store March 29-April 4: 1. “Sherlock Holmes” (DVD) 2. “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel” (DVD) 3. “The Blind Side” (DVD) 4. Erykah Badu, “New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh)” 5. Ella Fitzgerald, “Twelve Nights in Hollywood” 5. Meth Ghost Rae, “Wu Massacre” 5. White Stripes, “Under Great White […]
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DVD Releases
NEW ON DVD AND BLU-RAY: “BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS,” starring Nicholas Cage and Eva Mendes. Finally, a Nicholas Cage performance that doesn’t seem like he took the role to pay his back taxes. Wisely teaming up with always-compelling filmmaker Werner Herzog (“Grizzly Man”), Cage is electrifying as Terence McDonagh, a crazed cop […]
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Ebune parade pays cross-cultural tribute to renewal and hope
Rams are not indigenous to downtown Portland. This fact means it’s unlikely you’d see a horde of the horned animals sauntering down Congress Street. But stranger things have been seen in town, and on Sunday, rams will overtake the eastbound lane of Congress Street from the Maine College of Art (MECA) to the Eastern Prom […]
