It wasn’t always so, but now Ian Harvie can laugh at his story, and make others laugh, too.
2012
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Road warriors: Miss Tess and The Bon Ton Parade
The traveling troubadors roll into Portland for a show on Saturday.
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Bar Guide: Passing through or staying, Seasons has lots to offer
Tucked behind the Howard Johnson just off the turnpike, Seasons Grille is not just for hotel guests.
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Off Beat: Paper wear
What does a paper dress say about the person who wears it? Anything it wants. Ba dum dum. Sounds like a comic’s bad punchline (very bad), but in the case of a dress slated to be on view Friday at Space Gallery in Portland, it’s true. A dress made of more than 1,000 small fragments […]
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‘Lizzie Borden took an ax …’ or didn’t
Lucid Stage readies two new one-act plays that revisit the notorious 19th-century New England murder mystery.
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From the Editor: Music, art, theater: January has really got it going on
The decorations are all packed away, the remaining shreds of wrapping paper are stuck under the couch, and the overeating has turned into fat to be burned off with the annual pledge to exercise more. It’s time to take a deep breath, get that “Nutcracker” music out of your head and look forward to the […]
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At the Movies
OPENING FRIDAY “TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY” (R) (2:07) Stars Gary Oldman, Colin Firth and Tom Hardy. Directed by Tomas Alfredson. In 1970s England, the head of MI6 dispatches a spy to meet with a Hungarian general, but something goes wrong and the general dies before he can reveal the information. Veteran agent George Smiley is called […]
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What Ales You: Holidays offer chance to sample those other beers
With gifts and a lot of company, beer just keeps showing up in our household.
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DVD Releases
“MONEYBALL” (PG-13, 133 minutes): Filmmaker Bennett Miller barely puts a foot wrong in bringing to life the tale of Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane. In 2002 Beane (Brad Pitt) sought to rebuild the slumping A’s and revolutionize baseball recruiting using Sabermetrics. Miller has done a superb job of underplaying Pitt’s native magnetism, which nonetheless […]