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Out of the ashes, Central Street’s garden grows
In 1979, the building at 26-28 Central St. in downtown Bangor housed a grocery store, owned by the Zoidis family. That year, the building burned to the ground, and after the charred remains were razed, the lot sat vacant for more than three decades. Businesses came and went around it. ...
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Things To Do This Weekend, May 25-27: Country boys and punk rock girls
on May 24, 2012, at 6:04 p.m.
1. It’s a first for downtown Bangor: improv comedy troupe The Focus Group will make its premiere in the Queen City, with an 8 p.m. show on Friday night at Nocturnem Drafthaus; admission is $5. Also at Nocturnem this weekend is blues band the Bad Daddys, who will play on ...
Mid Coast Actor’s Studio provides new forum for classic plays
Jason Bannister subscribes to the “Why not?” philosophy when it comes to the arts. Why can’t you start a performing arts curriculum at a middle school? Why can’t you make movies with community members? Why can’t you just form a theater group and produce a play? Bannister, 35, did all ...
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Gary Allan talks with the BDN leading up to Bangor concert
Gary Allan’s been in the country music business a long while — according to his biography, he got his start at the age of 13, growing up in California. Allan’s career in music has spawned nine platinum albums, two No. 1 spots on the Billboard charts and countless sold-out concerts ...
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Waterfront Concerts to offer free tickets to military members, first responders
on May 22, 2012, at 3:52 p.m.
There are multiple ways that area organizations – from Waterfront Concerts to Acadia Hospital – are doing their part this weekend to use music to raise awareness and help out some very worthy causes. Waterfront Concerts announced Tuesday morning that this Sunday’s Country Throwdown concert, featuring Gary Allan (pictured at ...
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Popular Bangor restaurant features fiddleheads in main dishes
There’s a reason The Fiddlehead Restaurant in downtown Bangor remains wildly popular nearly three years after it opened: co-owners Laura Albin and chef Melissa Chaiken serve comfort food elevated to a kind of art form, combining worldwide influences with classic American favorites, such as burgers and chicken and waffles. And ...
Maine native Tim Simons finds success on HBO comedy series ‘Veep’
When Tim Simons was a teenager working at a video store in Winthrop, he sometimes would get starstruck when actors from the nearby Theater at Monmouth would come into the store. He got a little bashful, but only because he wanted to be onstage with them someday. “It sounds ridiculous, ...
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Ellsworth songwriter Chris Ross can’t stop, won’t stop
on May 21, 2012, at 11:03 a.m.
It goes without saying that social media is a powerful tool. I’d be willing to bet a large number of the people reading this particular story will read it online, via Facebook or Twitter. So when Ellsworth musician Chris Ross writes a new song, he posts it on YouTube for ...
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Shinedown, Papa Roach, Adelita’s Way to rock Waterfront
on May 21, 2012, at 9:33 a.m.
The latest addition to Bangor’s Waterfront Concerts summer lineup was announced early Monday morning, with the bands Shinedown, Papa Roach and Adelita’s Way set for Thursday, July 5. Tickets go on sale on Friday, May 25 and are set at $41.50 for general admission. “AMARYLLIS,” the fourth studio album from ...
Wabanaki tales, contemporary setting, in debut play
Donna Loring is known in Maine as a former tribal representative for the Penobscot Indian Nation, a law enforcement officer, a novelist, an activist and a radio show host. Though she has worn many hats in her career, musical theater playwright wasn’t one that she had any plans to acquire. ...
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Things To Do This Weekend, May 18-20: Let’s go fly a kite, and other spring things
on May 17, 2012, at 1:56 p.m.
1. What’s the word in downtown Bangor? Well, from the looks of it it’s going to be 100% gorgeous all weekend, so what better time to do some summery activities during the day, and then enjoy a mellow night in town? Nocturnem Drafthaus hosts another special acoustic night with the ...
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Kidding around at Bangor’s Kid Central Fest, May 19
on May 16, 2012, at 11:49 a.m.
600 people with small feet and 12 or less birthdays under their belts descended on downtown Bangor around this time last year, for a day of fun, music, fun, learning and, oh yeah, more fun. The second annual Kid Central Festival is set for 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, ...
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Bangor bakery Gavin’s Goodies makes decadent, visually appealing treats
BANGOR, Maine — Jennifer Lindsay was bitten by the baking bug early in life — elementary school, to be specific, when she started baking birthday cakes for her family, and made a map of the United States out of cake for a school project. Now, at age 26, she’s got ...
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Stephen King to release sequel to ‘The Shining’
on May 15, 2012, at 12:25 p.m.
Stephen King announced last week that “Doctor Sleep,” a decades-in-the-making follow up to his classic tale “The Shining,” will be released in early 2013. The novel is tentatively scheduled to be published in January by Scribner, but Cemetery Dance Publishing announced last weekend that they will be issuing a collectable ...
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Waldo County band the Rugged plies backwoods voodoo
on May 14, 2012, at 11:11 a.m.
There’s an unusually large number of talented bands from Waldo County. For an area with a population just shy of 39,000, there’s a seemingly disproportionate amount of diverse, original rock and folk groups — from the psychedelic duo Prisma to the iron fist of rock that is the Class Machine; ...
Maine at the heart of ‘Dark Shadows’ series, new film adaptation
When Dan Cashman was about 10 years old, his Dad brought home some videos from the rental store — eight episodes of the Maine-set, supernaturally themed “Dark Shadows” TV series that was on in the late 1960s and early ’70s. By the end of the tape, Cashman was a true ...
Ten Bucks Theatre goes Wilde in Ellsworth
Oscar Wilde coined the verb “to bunbury” — to keep up two alternate personas in the city and in the country — in his 1894 masterpiece “The Importance of Being Earnest,” which will be performed by Ten Bucks Theatre this weekend and next at the Grand Theatre in Ellsworth. Bunburying ...
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Things To Do This Weekend, May 11-13: Rock, read, eat and (please) no rain
on May 10, 2012, at 2:10 p.m.
1. The rain rain rain of the past three days will subside just in time for one heck of a weekend in Bangor. There’s something cool going on everywhere. Saturday night’s got heavy rockers OneSixtyOne at Paddy Murphy’s, the Bill Barnes Jazz Trio at Nocturnem Drafthaus, the allmighty 220s at ...
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Former Seventeen Magazine Editor Endorses Maine Teen’s Campaign for Real Girls
on May 10, 2012, at 11:01 a.m.
A former editor at Seventeen Magazine has announced her support for 14-year-old Waterville resident Julia Bluhm’s (pictured) campaign on Change.org asking the magazine to take steps to promote positive body image among girls. Bluhm’s petition on Change.org has garnered more than 60,000 signatures since its launch in April. Dede Lahman, ...
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Trans-Siberian Orchestra opens Waterfront Concert season with flair
BANGOR, Maine — The sturm und drang of Beethoven matched the wet, gloomy weather that hung over the Bangor Waterfront on Wednesday night as the Trans-Siberian Orchestra brought its unique fusion of metal, prog rock and classical to the waterfront concert stage. It was the first concert of 2012 and ...
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Small idea launches major project in Hampden
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Gary Allan talks with the BDN leading up to Bangor concert
Out of the ashes, Central Street’s garden grows
Mid Coast Actor’s Studio provides new forum for classic plays
Signs lead artist to opportunity
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