Arts & Entertainment

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December 29, 2013

Movies: Diversity efforts slow to change the face of Oscar voters

Despite the academy’s attempts to add minorities and women, its ranks are still mostly white and male.
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December 29, 2013

Movie Preview: Ben Stiller’s latest is more dramatic than his hit comedies

'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' is his fifth feature directorial effort, which he also produced and has leading role.
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December 29, 2013

Society Notebook: Cheers to 25 years at Gritty McDuff’s

Gritty McDuff’s, Maine’s first true brew pub, marks a milestone birthday.
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December 29, 2013

Book Review: ‘Dwelling in Possibility’ examines the modern home

The new book by cultural historian Howard Mansfield ignores sales and profit and looks at harder-to-define qualities.
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December 29, 2013

Book Review: ‘Drawings’ collects artwork by Sylvia Plath

Poetic sketches evoke solitude.

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December 29, 2013

Book Review: ‘Jeeves and the Wedding Bells’

What ho! A new novel starring the greatest comic characters of 20th-century English literature, bumbling Bertie Wooster and his unflappable, Spinoza-reading valet Jeeves? How can this be, one asks oneself, scratching the bean with Bertie-like perplexity. Didn’t P.G. Wodehouse, who brought Jeeves and Bertie to life, hand in his lunch pail on Valentine’s Day in […]
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December 29, 2013

Signings, etc.

Author Deborah Freedman to speak at Friday Local Author Series.
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December 29, 2013

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

According to the old expression, seeing is believing. But in this week’s hopeful poem for the new year, Robert Chute of Poland Spring shows that believing can be seeing.
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December 29, 2013

Audience Calendar

• ART Amy Stacey Curtis, nine video projections, each an exploration of movement in time and space, via the motif of a walk in the woods. Through January 5. $10. Portland Museum of Art, 7 Congress Square Plaza. portlandmuseum.org. “Redacted,” paintings and drawings by Ahmed Alsoudani, Iraqi artist and MECA graduate. Through Feb. 2. Portland […]
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December 22, 2013

Art Review: ‘Five Artists’ at A Fine Thing: Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts in Portland

The current five-person show at A Fine Thing: Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts is a great reminder that gallery directors are some of Maine’s art assets. Pollack has assembled a show of artists whose work reflects back on each other in such a way that elevates all of the work. Walking into the gallery, you […]

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