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November 11, 2010

Music and Nightlife: Hot Ticket and Cheap Thrill

• HOT TICKET Jokes so wrong it’s gotta be Wright IT SEEMS LIKE Steven Wright hasn’t cracked a smile his whole life, yet this deadpan specialist has been making audiences laugh for some 25 years. The Boston native is known for lines like “When everything is coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane,” and “OK, […]
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November 11, 2010

At the Movies

Due to early deadlines for the Veterans Day holiday, this week’s movie listings are incomplete. Please call theaters to verify times. OPENING THIS WEEK “UNSTOPPABLE” (PG-13) Stars Denzel Washington, Chris Pine and Rosario Dawson. Directed by Tony Scott. A rail company frantically works to prevent an unmanned, half-mile-long freight train carrying combustible liquids and poisonous gas from […]
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November 11, 2010

Music and Nightlife Listings

CONCERTS TODAY Noonday Concerts with Ray Cornils, organ, First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, Portland. Free. 775-3356. 12:15 p.m. Crooked Still, Americana, The Grand, Ellsworth. $25 at door; $20 in advance. 667-9500. 7:30 p.m. Andrea Beaton Band, roots/bluegrass, Unity Centre for the Performing Arts. $10. 948-7469.7:30 p.m. Elizabeth Cook, country, Bates College (Olin Arts Center), Lewiston. […]
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November 11, 2010

PSO and guest crooner celebrate ‘Ol Blue Eyes

This weekend's Pops concerts showcase Steve Lippia singing Sinatra greats.
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November 11, 2010

From the Editor: Quick – someone buy a calendar to stuff in retailers’ stockings

It was Halloween. My daughter was busy deciding which devil horns to wear with her costume, the ones that light up or the ones attached to a gangster hat. My wife and I were divvying up the Sunday newspaper while making last-minute trick-or-treating meet-up arrangements with friends and their children. That’s when I saw it. […]

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November 11, 2010

Et Cetera: Hot Ticket and Cheap Thrill

• CHEAP THRILL Have a seat — if your bid’s the best BID ON 50 one-of-a-kind chairs hand-painted by local artists and raise money for student community service projects at the Painting with a Purpose Auction. WHEN: 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday WHERE: Rines Auditorium, Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square HOW MUCH: $10 each; $25 […]
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November 11, 2010

Indie Film: The art (and artistry) of a great biopic

Space Gallery is right in the middle of its SCOPE visual arts film series (continuing tonight with the documentary “Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine”), and although the old saying “talking about music is like dancing about architecture” seems to suggest the futility of making a movie about artists, there have been […]
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November 11, 2010

Making Noise: The beauty of Tin Ceilings lies in the way they soothe

It’s fitting to meet Portland outfit Tin Ceilings on a rainy day. Like the unheralded rainstorms of a New England autumn starved for light, Tin Ceilings’ songs have a familiar melancholy to them. With a voice that recalls a soft Jim James (of My Morning Jacket), singer Randy Illian creates beaten blues like Townes Van […]
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November 11, 2010

Music and Nightlife: The Ladies who launch

The Barenaked Ladies embark on their latest tour with a different lineup and a new album. They play in Portland on Tuesday.
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November 11, 2010

The Movies: What’s the story, ‘Morning Glory’?

As a fluffy romcom it's OK, but you'd expect more with a cast featuring McAdams, Keaton, Ford and Goldblum.

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