At some point over the weekend, or perhaps sometime in the wee hours of this morning, you helped me hit a big milestone, guys. When I logged into my BDN blog dashboard this morning, I was most delighted to see that as of Monday, Sept. 29, 2014, Culture Shock, your source for the latest news […]
Organizers of the American Folk Festival on the Bangor Waterfront announced on Monday afternoon that this year’s Bucket Brigade brought in $105,896 from festival-goers over the course of the three-day event, held in late August. That tally is nearly $15,000 less than the $122,000 brought in for the 2013 festival, but as organizers note, it’s […]
It’s time to vote! We had our karaoke competition at Paddy Murphy’s two weeks ago, and in addition to giving away a bunch of tickets to different Waterfront Concerts and fun schwag from Baxter Brewing and Svedka Vodka, we hosted six finalists, who are in the running for the grand prize VIP Arcade Fire concert […]
After every show, the folks that clean up the Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion unearth a number of lost objects. Car keys. Debit and credit cards. Phones. Wallets. Glasses. You name it. This year, Waterfront Concerts webmaster Pat Shaw decided to be proactive about returning some of those lost things to their rightful owners. The new Waterfront […]
Underwater explorer Barry Clifford recently made waves when he announced on Tuesday that he believes he has discovered the wreck of the Santa Maria, one of the three ships Christopher Columbus sailed on when in 1492 he reached what is now known as the Americas. Clifford, who also discovered the wreck of the pirate […]
The Cross Insurance Center last month announced they’d be taking suggestions for the name of a new specialty burger they’d be adding to the menu at two of the arena’s full-service dining concession stands; Tapas on the Penobscot and the Blue Ox Grill. The burger, which is topped with a mound of poutine, has been […]
It is hard to make Crash Barry blush. The journalist, author and Maine gadfly has little qualms when it comes to writing about just about anything — be it the rough and tumble world of a sternman on a lobster boat in Matinicus, the excesses of life on the blueberry barrens of Washington County, or […]
Hank Williams, Jr. has been around long enough to have seen a lot of things. He’s the son of country legend Hank Williams, of course, and the father to country-punk star Hank William III. He was one of the first country stars to blend rock n’ roll sounds into his music, challenging the Nashville industry […]
Barry Gass sells plenty of different types of hats at Gass Horse Supply, the business he and his family has run on Route 2 in Orono for over 100 years. He’s got belt buckles and bridles and Mane n’ Tail horse shampoo, too. But it’s the Blue Chair brand hats that he’s having a hard […]
Classical music fans in Maine will be losing an on-air friend at the end of the summer. Popular MPBN radio personality Suzanne Nance, host of Morning Classical each weekday between 9 a.m. and noon, plans to leave the public radio station for another radio station, the commercial classical station WFMT in Chicago. Her last day […]
