Fifty years ago, The Beatles staged an unannounced concert – their last – from a rooftop on Savile Row in London.
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Director Peter Jackson making new film of Beatles in studio
The documentary will use previously unseen 1969 footage.
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Police: None of footage shows attack on ‘Empire’ actor Jussie Smollett
He says two masked men beat him, subjected him to racist and homophobic insults, threw an ‘”unknown chemical substance’ on him and put a thin rope around his neck.
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New lunch bar coming to Old Port
Get a pastrami sandwich and a beer at Royale Lunch Bar.
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Country music bar planned for Bayside
Proposed for an old public works building, The Whiskey Barrel plans to have a stage, dance floor and outdoor patio.
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New Peaks Island seafood restaurant is in the works
A local couple plans to turn The Peaks Island House into Island Lobster Co.
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The Wrap: Treasured painting stolen from Hunt & Alpine Club; Wells bakery offers year’s supply of doughnuts
The painting of Crater Lake in Oregon has been in Briana Volk’s family for decades, and her parents made it a congratulatory gift when she and her husband opened their bar.
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‘Fearless Girl’ artist faces lawsuit
The U.S. Coast Guard Academy Alumni Association’s suit says Kristen Visbal failed to make a 9-foot bronze replica of Alexander Hamilton and breached the $28,000 contract.
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Led by John Bapst grad, Superorganism to play Portland in May
Orono Noguchi, who was named after the Maine town, is the lead singer of the band whose album was named among the top 50 last year by Rolling Stone.
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Stock symbol POT is hot commodity on Canadian exchanges
Demand is so high a lottery is being held to see who gets it.