Ray Routhier

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May 14—Seeing a great live concert can lift your spirits and boost your energy, but it can also empty your wallet. Thankfully, there are lots of free concerts and other performances around Maine this summer. Many shows are part of a free concert series in a town park or public space. Portland also has free Shakespeare in the Park, and there are free shows for younger folks at Opera Maine and Ogunquit Playhouse.

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May 14—Dan Cashman landed the guest he always wanted, when he got David Letterman to appear on one of the final episodes of "The Nite Show."That get has turned Cashman into a coveted guest himself. Cashman, who has hosted the Bangor-based talk show for 15 years, was a guest on Howard Stern's satellite radio show Monday morning.

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May 8—Ron Currie says his memories of the Franco-American community in Waterville, where he grew up, were becoming so distant he didn't trust them anymore. Currie, 49, was born at a time when people still spoke French, when workers flowed in and out of mills daily, and where French Catholic families filled churches on Sundays.

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Apr. 29—Tucker Pillsbury was working on his latest album when he got very homesick for Maine. Pillsbury, known as Role Model to music fans, had already been in Los Angeles for several years, establishing himself as a pop singer and songwriter. But he began thinking a lot about his childhood home in Cape Elizabeth and the music his parents played, by artists like Jackson Browne and Neil Young. "I just hit a point where I was missing home a lot and my whole taste in music was kind of shifting.

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Apr. 28—It's easy to see why so many movies set on trains — more than 300 — have been made over the years. Train travel stirs a unique sense of excitement and adventure. It's hard to imagine the protagonists of Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 thriller "Strangers on a Train" plotting murders in the back of a minivan. The three estranged brothers in Wes Anderson's 2007 film "The Darjeeling Limited" would likely not find the same sense of spiritual discovery on connecting flights across India.