The metal band Coheed and Cambria is getting ready to release “Year of the Black Rainbow,” a prequel to the four conceptual albums that make up “The Armory Wars.” The new album is set for release on April 13. The band is doing a series of pre-album release shows, including one at 7 p.m. Sunday […]
March 2010
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Irish bishop resigns for failure to report abusive priests to police
Meanwhile, new accusations arise about a German priest connected to Pope Benedict XVI.
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More Letters to the Editor: March 25, 2010
Blowing hot and cold on offshore wind I want to point out an oversight in Staff Writer Tux Turkel’s otherwise fine March 12 article, “Oil dealers: Offshore wind plan a mistake.” Turkel states that 8,000 megawatts (MW) of wind is the equivalent of six Seabrook nuclear plants. In fact, it is about the equivalent of […]
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DVD Releases
New on DVD and Blu-ray: “THE BLIND SIDE,” starring Sandra Bullock and Quinton Aaron. “Heartwarming” isn’t ordinarily a phrase that instills a lot of hope for a quality film in the jaded minds of we at Videoport, but “The Blind Side” is pretty difficult to resist. That’s thanks in large part to Oscar-winner Bullock, whose […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Letters to the Editor: March 25, 2010
People approved of pot dispensaries, let’s have them As a person who requires medicinal marijuana in order to live a productive life, I am completely outraged with the government here in Maine! I worked extremely hard back in the late ’90s to get our initial medicinal marijuana law passed. This law, in short, gave […]
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Go See a Movie
“Alice in Wonderland” (PG) (1:48) Stars Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowsky, Helena Bonham Carter, Crispin Glover and Anne Hathaway. Directed by Tim Burton. The 19-year-old Alice returns to the magical world from her childhood adventure, where she reunites with her old friends and learns of her true destiny to end the Red Queen’s reign of terror. […]
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‘Train Your Dragon’ delivers nice message, too few laughs
The Vikings on the island of Berk have this pest problem – dragons. They’re dogged by dragons of every shape, size and description – the Thunder Drum variety and the “Scaldrons,” who won’t burn you with fire, but with scalding hot water. Whispering Death is a particular nuisance. Worst of all is the Night Fury. […]
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‘Chloe’ could have left more to the imagination
Atom Egoyan, Canada’s hit or miss or miss-by-a-mile cinema surveyor of the terrain of sex, finds mild chills and modest surprises with “Chloe,” a soft-core variation on “Fatal Attraction.” The filmmaker noted for occasionally fetishizing young starlets in awkwardly twisted films such as “Exotica” and “Where the Truth Lies” here semi-successfully remakes the kinky French […]