But they need your help to know where to go! Julian Koster and co. had a great time here on the Elephant 6 Holiday Surprise Tour and will be back to Maine to wrap up the upcoming caroling tour! Read on for details about how you can vote YOUR HOUSE on the list (and don’t [...]

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What do you get when you take a couple of guys who’ve worked for The Colbert Report, Late Show with David Letterman and The Onion and send them on tour with a much beloved collection of some seriously warped found videos? Why, The Found Footage Festival!
We’re all gushy about hosting Nick Prueher and [...]

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The Time of Rivers Festival is upon us. Three nights, two days, all weekend, all good.
The Phoenix wrote a great piece about it.
We might post some artist primers if there’s time, but we have to get things set up. I mean, this is big!
Did we mention we got media sponsorship for the festival from the [...]

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Through July and August, SPACE Gallery and Portland Downtown District put their heads together to come up with the fun-in-the-sun afternoon concerts of The Weekday Music Series. Aside from one show being canceled due to weather, they all went off without a problem and pleased the audience - whether they were fans, passersby, or workers [...]

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This is Riley. He goes by the name of GC Typhois, a one-man band based in Portland, Maine. He is attempting to break the WORLD RECORD for “Longest Continuous Solo Guitar Performance”. The current record is held by James Brister of Louisiana, set on January 29th, 2006 at 50 HOURS. GC Typhois is attempting to [...]

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Over A Cardboard Sea played a free concert in Post Office Park last Friday, July 25th, presented by SPACE Gallery.

This free outdoor music series continues this Friday, August 1st, in Congress Square with Brenda.

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Ever wonder what the naked baby from the iconic cover of Nirvana’s Nevermind has been up to lately? Read more about 17-year old Spencer Elden and what it’s like to have several million people own uncensored photos of your baby junk.
If you missed our screening earlier this year of A.J. Schnack’s excellent documentary about [...]

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This was the second week of the SPACE co-sponsored (along with Portland Downtown District) Weekday Music Series in Post Office Park. The rain held out long enough for about an hour long set of songs from Fire On Fire’s Chriss Sutherland, playing solo on an acoustic guitar to a crowd of fans and passersby on [...]

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Easily in the Top Ten of Portland’s coolest parents, Amanda Soule has built up a devoted following of creative parent-types with her blog SouleMama and her recently published book The Creative Family. She was recently asked by the Alpha Mom TV website to compile a list of “50 Things To Do In Portland, Maine [...]

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Zombie Kickball III reconstitutes itself and shambles it’s rotten corpus down to the Eastern Prom this Sunday, June 29th for a moaning, shuffle-y game of the ol’ redball. This year’s event is a whole trifecta of fun with the 2pm game followed at 4pm by an all-ages show at SPACE with Covered By Bees, [...]

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