•Is it just me, or have you overdosed on Red Sox-Yankees for a while? Too much of a good thing inevitably becomes just too much, like eating five hot fudge sundaes when one would have been fine and dandy.

Over 7,000 fans came to the Bell Centre to cheer on hometown hero George St. Pierre and boo champion Matt Serra.

Manitoba phone giant MTS has added Ultimate Fighting Championship pay-per-view events to its digital TV offering.

Fugitive Pieces: The film of the Anne Michaels novel - about a young Polish boy who survives the Second World War - has been directed by Jeremy Podeswa and stars Stephen Dillane.

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Rating: 4 stars (excellent) It sounds cliched, as does the nature of the film itself, but “Flight of the Red Balloon” is a gem made by a filmmaker who loves life, and knows how to capture its ebb and flow and sweet complication.

Casting Calls: Another round of casting announcements, another list of gainfully employed actors … unless, of course, they all go on strike next month, at which point you might as well convert your TV to an aquarium (or, if it’s a flat screen, a very large ant farm).

Once in a while, a movie inspires nothing more than complete apathy. “Backseat” is such a lackluster work. There’s nothing wrong with Bruce…

hen I read in a bio provided by the curator that Frank Woods of Montpelier is a retired librarian I confess I unfairly expected his landscape paintings to reflect an unflattering personality stereotype: I guessed they would be obsessively detailed realistic offerings. … - By Anne Galloway Times Argus Staff

AVA Gallery: Adam Blue, through May 24, “Fragments,” paintings and drawings; 2nd Tuesday, work by nine Vermont artists who meet to share work-in-progress; Sue Katz, prints and ceramic sculpture, 11 Bank St., Lebanon, N.H., (603) 448-3117, www.avagallery.org. Reception, Friday, April 25, 5 to 7 p.m. …