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May 13, 2010

Cheap Thrill

Now that Kristin DiCara’s and Nathan McClellan’s youngest child is headed off to kindergarten, the Portland-based couple is making a return to performing. As the acoustic duo Mystic Folk Opera, the two recently released an album, “Secrets of a Hostile Sun.” Go to mysticfolkopera.com to stream audio. The duo will be joined by Vermont-based roots […]
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May 13, 2010

Chocolate Church Arts Center gallery celebrates new space

BATH — The art gallery at the Chocolate Church Arts Center has been closed for more than a year while moving from another building and undergoing extensive renovation. The gallery, at 804 Washington St., will reopen with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday. The first show in the new space is “Watermarks: Recent […]
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May 13, 2010

Crowe as Robin Hood, guided by Ridley Scott? Now that’s epic

LOS ANGELES — Whatever you say about Russell Crowe’s up-with-people campaign against unresponsive, property-grabbing government in “Robin Hood,” don’t suggest to its makers that the historical epic is the first tea party movie. “No, no,” says screenwriter Brian Helgeland. “That would not be good.” For all of its 12th-century trappings, Helgeland and director Ridley Scott’s […]
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May 13, 2010

Dear Amanda: Be more than a pretty face, please

As an old woman in search of the love she abandoned in Italy 50 years before, Vanessa Redgrave puts on an acting clinic in “Letters to Juliet.” If only the star of this romantic comedy, Amanda “Mamma Mia!” Seyfried, had taken notes. Lovely Amanda – playing a New Yorker fact-checker who stumbles across a weathered […]
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May 13, 2010

DVD Releases

NEW ON DVD AND BLU-RAY “DAYBREAKERS,” starring Ethan Hawke and Willem Dafoe. Co-opting the current bloodsucker craze to make a statement on our ongoing oil crisis, directors Michael and Peter Spierig (the less dour “Undead”) introduce a not-too-distant future wherein humankind has been transformed into vampires due to one of those apocalyptic plagues we keep […]

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May 13, 2010

Eat & Run

Mr. Sandwich, Mrs. Muffin make a happy couple
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May 13, 2010

Fans of warm and cuddly will love ‘Babies’

In the joyous and buoyant new documentary “Babies,” the filmmakers keep the baby – and the bathwater – and everything else about infants that makes them so appealing that the rest of us keep making more of them. Like the trailer that has been charming audiences for months, this is babyhood airbrushed to a high […]
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May 13, 2010

Got Tix?

Concerts and shows currently on sale: The latest On sale 10 a.m. Friday – Old Crow Medicine Show, 8 p.m. July 18, Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, Hampton Beach, N.H. $28/$30. www.ticketmaster.com; (800) 745-3000 On sale 10 a.m. Friday – Rufus Wainwright, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 3, Boston Opera House. $36 to $46. www.ticketmaster.com; (800) 745-3000 […]
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May 13, 2010

Hot Ticket

For more than 30 years, the Holmes Brothers – Sherman and Wendell Holmes and Popsy Dixon – have been rousing audiences with their blend of blues, soul and gospel. The award-winning trio released their latest album, “Feed My Soul,” earlier this year. The album was produced by singer/songwriter Joan Osborne, of “One of Us” fame. […]
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May 13, 2010

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