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November 25, 2010

Music and Nightlife: Hot Ticket and Cheap Thrill

• HOT TICKET Imagine … a project to honor a Beatle THE JOHN LENNON SONG PROJECT is a seven-piece group created by Rex Fowler of Aztec Two-Step and Tom Dean of Maine-based Devonsquare. The group will be playing Lennon’s music at a CD-release party Saturday night. WHEN: 8 p.m. Saturday WHERE: One Longfellow Square, 181 State […]
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November 25, 2010

Bar Guide: Katahdin returns on a grand scale

After holding down the corner of Spring and High streets for more than 12 years, Katahdin closed its doors one year ago. But owner Becky Lee Simmons and partner Winnie Moody are back in a big way after taking over the space that once housed George’s Bakery, and are rebuilding the place from floor to […]
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November 25, 2010

CD Review: Latest treasure-trove shows ‘Greetings’ hasn’t lost its luster

Charlie Gaylord’s Cornmeal Records and radio station WBLM — in association with Maine Magazine and Shipyard Brewing — have given us yet another reason to love and appreciate our local musicians with the latest “Greetings from Area Code” compilation. We’re up to volume eight with this collection, and it was 10 years ago this month […]
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November 25, 2010

Et Cetera Listings

• FAIRS/FESTIVALS FRIDAY Local Craft and Wares Fair, Bethel Inn Resort. Free. www.bethelmaine.com. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Festival of Trees, Saco Museum. Free. 283-3861. Tree lighting and ribbon-cutting ceremony, 5 to 7 p.m. Friday. Continues 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Festival of Lights, festivities […]
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November 25, 2010

Movie Review: Loner’s vulnerability laid bare in gut-wrenching ‘127 Hours’

Like many Danny Boyle movies, including “28 Days Later,” “Millions” and “Slumdog Millionaire,” “127 Hours” is an against-all-odds survival saga. Its ostensible subject is Aron Ralston, the outdoorsman trapped in a Utah canyon by a falling boulder that pinned his right hand and forearm to the red rock. But the true subjects of Boyle’s film […]

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November 25, 2010

Off Beat: Mind- or at least spoon-bending: What are you waiting for?

The nice thing about thoughts is no one else can hear them. If they could, it’d be a lot harder to keep a job, dine with your mother-in-law or lie when your new girlfriend asks, “Am I’m prettier than your old girlfriend?” If thoughts were audible, I suspect some folks would find themselves spending a […]
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November 25, 2010

At the Movies

DUE TO EARLY DEADLINES for the Thanksgiving holiday, this week’s movie listings are incomplete. Please call theaters to verify times. NOW SHOWING “127 HOURS” (1:33) (R) Stars James Franco, Amber Tamblyn and Kate Mara. Directed by Danny Boyle. Mountain climber Aron Ralston becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah, and resorts […]
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November 25, 2010

Music and Nightlife: Hooked

Phish founder Mike Gordon can't get enough of ... lists. And playing music. And touring -- he's in Portland Friday.
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November 25, 2010

From the Editor: Pete Best, on being – and then not being – a Beatle

This week’s column continues The Beatles theme of last week, which celebrated the Fab Four’s long-awaited arrival to iTunes. With lots of local Beatles-themed events hoppin’ — and given that this is the 50th anniversary of The Quarrymen changing their name to The Beatles and making their all-important first tour of Hamburg, Germany — I […]
Published
November 25, 2010

Art and Theater: Hot Ticket and Cheap Thrill

• HOT TICKET ‘Nutcracker’ ushers in holiday shows MAINE STATE BALLET stages a traditional version of “The Nutcracker” with two weekends of performances at Merrill Auditorium. The ballet, with a live orchestra and lush costumes, inaugurates an intense monthlong string of holiday concerts and events. WHEN: 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday and Dec. 4; 2 p.m. […]

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