DEAR ABBY: I’m a 25- year- old woman with no future. I am the youngest of three daughters. My parents are divorced and my sisters are both married. Mom has no income of her own, so it’s mainly me. I have come to realize that I’ll never be able to have an apartment of my […]
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9/11 drama ‘Extremely Loud’ hopes to deliver a healing
Emotions run high in “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close,” the boldest cinematic tackling of Sept. 11 yet. It’s a project fraught with obvious peril, with pitfalls of sentimentality, exploitation or, simply, audience reluctance. The source material, Jonathan Safran Foer’s 2005 book, is far from normal Hollywood stuff. One of the first novels to take up […]
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‘Breaking Bad,’ ‘Happy Endings’ among year’s best on television
Don’t look back. Maybe that’s one lesson to be drawn from TV in the year past. At least, nostalgia didn’t exactly pay off for the networks. ABC’s Kennedy- era drama “ Pan Am” hasn’t soared in the ratings, and even with all the bunnies, NBC’s short-lived “The Playboy Club” was clearly missing a lucky rabbit’s […]
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The year in music: The odds and ends
Sure, everyone has their list of top albums. But how do you rank the things that really resonated in pop music this year — like Nicki Minaj’s ubiquity, the best song you were embarrassed to sing out loud, and the top return of the year? We try to put a spotlight on some of music’s […]
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‘Forbidden Broadway’ satire takes stage at Freeport Factory
F reeport Factory Stage will present two performances of the off-Broadway hit musical comedy, “Forbidden Broadway’s Greatest Hits, Volume One” on Saturday. “This musical send-up of the most beloved Broadway musicals and personalities will leave audiences laughing and wanting more,” a Freeport Factory Stage release states. “‘Forbidden Broadway’ is one of the longest running shows […]
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Chocolate fest helps rebuild church
BRUNSWICK — The Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick is selling tickets to an all-you-can-eat chocolate buffet at Wilbur’s of Maine Chocolate Confections in Freeport on Jan. 15. The benefit event aims to raise money to help defray the cost of rebuilding the congregation’s church, which burned in June. Tickets can be purchased from now until […]
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Children’s theater group slates auditions
PORTLAND — The Children’s Museum and Theater of Maine will hold auditions on Jan. 6 and Jan. 7. Actors between 11 and 17 years old who would like to join the Kids on the Block puppeteer troupe or the Youth Voices on Stage anti-bullying performance troupe are invited to audition from 3:30 p.m. to 5 […]
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Maine Steiners to raise voices at Crooker Theater
BRUNSWICK — The Maine Steiners, a University of Maine a cappella group, will perform at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Crooker Theater at Brunswick High School on Maquoit Road. Tickets cost $5 at the door. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Air for Ashley, an organization supporting a University of Maine graduate student with cystic […]