Many of the characters and places in the film with the hair-metal soundtrack are rooted in reality.
Arts & Entertainment
DINE OUT MAINE: Inventive menu, upscale style earn a ‘wow’ for Spread
Look sharp, sample the colorful cocktail menu, and prepare to enjoy an evening of inventive and eclectic dining at this new Portland restaurant.
Crotty paintings on view in Thomaston
Through July 22, Frost Gully Gallery in Thomaston is showing a selection of recent paintings by gallery proprietor Thomas Crotty.
Arts Planner
The Portland Museum of Art has just opened its big summer splash, “The Draw of the Normandy Coast,” but it already has its sights set on its next exhibit.
Portlander pens a big, bold book about ‘Navy’s war’
In “1812: The Navy’s War,” George C. Daughan gives a sprawling, brawling, factual account of America’s Second War for Independence.
Society Notebook’License to Chill’: WinterKids raises $20,000
WinterKids raises more than $20,000 and at the same time puts the ‘fun’ in fundraising with an event at quirky Bubba’s.
Signings, etc.
Maine author, humorist and radio personality John McDonald will be signing his new book, “Maine Trivia: A Storyteller’s Useful Guide to Useless Information.” It might make a good last-minute Father’s Day gift.
‘Normandy’ comes to Portland Museum of Art
For more than a century, the stretch of France’s Atlantic coast has been a magnet to the world’s great artists, many of whom will be on display in a new show at the Portland Museum of Art.
Three Maine students win $2,500 each in ‘Journey Into Writing’ contest
The winners are Amanda Dickey, Brianna Housman and Gaelyn Lindauer. Below are their submissions.
‘Once’ enough for tonight’s Tony Awards
NEW YORK – What with “Ghost,” “Lysistrata Jones” and other wearying disappointments, the 2012-13 Broadway season hardly will go down as a banner year for new American musicals. Indeed, should the best-musical Tony Award go, at tonight’s ceremony, to a show other than “Once” or “Newsies” — the only remotely viable candidates for this most […]