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Arts & Entertainment

Published
March 23, 2014

New MPBN classical music host settles in

Robin Rilette moved to Maine from the Pacific Northwest.
Published
March 16, 2014

Society Notebook: Choosing best cocktail and dessert a tough job

Hundreds of tasters dedicate themselves to it at the Maine Restaurant Week Signature Event.
Published
March 16, 2014

Art review: Dense and masterful ‘Parabellum’ at the University of Maine Museum of Art

Kenny Cole’s layers of paint, text and fiction challenge machinery of war.
Published
March 16, 2014

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

Though his mother and her dog are now gone, Bruce Guernsey of Bethel brings them back in today’s poem – an odd couple, perfectly matched.
Published
March 16, 2014

Movie review: ‘The Single Moms Club’ is pleasurable Perry

It’s understandable why director-writer-actor Tyler Perry has continually gone back to his female comedy persona of Madea. Put that loud and brash character in a film and it makes big money. For “The Single Moms Club,” Perry trades the over-the-top antics of Madea for a sometimes serious – and often funny – look at what […]

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Published
March 16, 2014

Classical Beat: Tuning in to the ‘music of the spheres’

“Only connect,” as E.M. Forster advised. There seems to be a lot of synchronicity going around in musical circles at – one hopes – the end of a long, hard winter. It began, or at least I picked up the end of the thread, when I met a friend, Shirsten Lundblad, at a concert of […]
Published
March 16, 2014

Book review: Living life on the wild side

‘American Cocktail’ tells of the adventures of a ‘colored girl’ who got entangled in key moments of the early 1900s.
Published
March 16, 2014

June Fitzpatrick Gallery to feature paintings by Sarah Cecil and Kevin McNamara

The June Fitzpatrick Gallery is featuring paintings by Sarah Cecil and Kevin McNamara this month at the gallery, 522 Congress St. in Portland. Cecil, who lives and works in Portland, graduated from Brown University with a degree in painting. She has lectured on art and design at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York […]
Published
March 16, 2014

Signings, etc.

Joanne Conman
Published
March 16, 2014

Author Q&A: Writing about brother’s death helps Portland author and others

After many years as a successful writer and editor, Richard Pollak finally explores his family’s pain.