This is great. I don’t have to put any effort at all into creating a clever opening for this story. I just have to scribble one little word and you’ll all start jumping around like kids on Christmas morning. Fasten your seat belts, children. Here it comes. Bacon! Now we just wait for the Pavlovian […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Our quest for the perfect cup; no butts about it
At least two weeks ago now, someone abandoned a cat-butt mug in one of our office sinks. Yeah. A cat-butt mug. One side of the coffee cup is all friendly feline faces, the other side, raised tails and rears. The reasons for its abandonment are obvious. Well, moderately obvious. Bag Lady is only guessing that […]
Night life calendar for the week of March 31
Some events require tickets or are subject to other limitations. If in doubt, we recommend you contact the venue. Night Life listings must be e-mailed to [email protected] and received no later than Monday. Tonight Film: Sound City, 5 and 8 p.m., Frontier, Brunswick Sunday Night Dance Party with Steve Colella, 8 p.m., Mixers, Sabattus Open […]
The creations of Rumford food artist Fred Martineau
Fred Martineau likes to play with his food. He’s never been sent to his room without dessert for it, though. Rather, people pay him to do it. Martineau has crafted Italian plazas, tropical paradises, whimsical scenes, adorable animals and complex kaleidoscopic patterns using only fruit, vegetables, cheese, crackers and a lot of imagination. For five […]
Face Time: Gunnar Nelson, rock star, chef, recovered ‘hair farmer’
They’re the grandsons of Ozzie and Harriet. Sons of Ricky Nelson. And rock stars in their own right: As the group Nelson, Gunnar and Matthew Nelson were behind hits like “After the Rain” and “Love and Affection” in the 1990s. They’ll bring “Ricky Nelson Remembered,” a musical tribute tour, to the Merrill Auditorium in Portland […]
Road Trip: Map out a spring fling
It’s spring! Do you have spring in your step? Spring fever? Does hope spring eternal? (OK, I’ll stop.) This is the season of rebirth, awakening, renewal and regrowth. It’s been a long winter and now it’s time to spring into action and take a road trip. (I promise!) Throughout Maine it seems people are gearing […]