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September 8, 2013

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

For poet Patricia Ranzoni of Bucksport, Maine is a place that emerges in September, after the summer visitors have gone.
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September 8, 2013

Movie Review: Everything but imagination populates ‘Riddick’

“Riddick,” aka “The Sequel Nobody Wanted,” gets off to a surprisingly strong start. The eponymous anti-hero (Vin Diesel), an intergalactic outlaw with the ability to see in the dark, is stranded on a desert planet with no weapons or supplies, seriously wounded and relentlessly hunted by carnivorous aliens. There are scary dog-like predators that look […]
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September 3, 2013

Dine Out Maine: Enoteca Athena a wise choice for cocktails and local food

Customers flock to tiny, out-of-the-way Trattoria Athena, considered by many (including me) to be one of Brunswick’s best restaurants for its mix of Italian and Greek entrees using mostly local ingredients and served with wines from a well-conceived list. Owners and chefs Tim O’Brien and Marc Provencher recently took over a larger, more visible space […]
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September 1, 2013

Art Review: At Veilleux, the art is museum-worthy

While visiting the Colby College Museum of Art’s new Alfond Lunder Family Pavilion in Waterville, I found myself repeatedly comparing Lunder Collection works to pieces at Tom Veilleux Gallery. Veilleux is a private dealer specializing in American works aligned with the Modernist and Aesthetic movement-era works — the very heart of Colby’s Lunder Collection. Veilleux […]
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September 1, 2013

Books: Authors switching genres in new books

The line between fiction and memoir gets crossed by several writers being published this fall.

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September 1, 2013

Calendar

Art “Wood, Water, Stone and Seed,” oil on panel still lifes and landscapes by Sean Beavers, Gleason Fine Art, Boothbay Harbor. gleasonfineart.com. Through Sept. 14. “Tell Me a Story: About Maine,” works by 14 artists who have illustrated children’s books about Maine, University of Southern Maine (Atrium Art Gallery), Lewiston. usm.maine.edu/atriumgallery. Through Nov. 23. “Andy […]
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September 1, 2013

Camden artist to discuss his studies in silk

ROCKLAND — PicassoWhat Gallery is holding a special event on Friday with Georgian-born artist Gigi Aea, who will discuss his paintings in the exhibit, “Summer on Silk.” The event, from 5 to 8 p.m. at 328 Main St., Studio 201, will feature his large-scale textile paintings, including “My Garden in Tuscany” and “Dreamer’s World.” The […]
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September 1, 2013

Author Q & A: Driving to where the wild, endangered things are

From condors to Maine piping plovers, threatened animals lead a teacher and his family on a transcontinental quest to see them.
Published
September 1, 2013

Classical Beat: In criticism, downplaying the dissonance does a disservice

“Still, I felt so deadly dull that I should hardly have survived to tell the tale had not a desperate expedient to wile away the time occurred to me. Why not telegraph to London, I thought, for some music to review? Reviewing has one advantage over suicide. In suicide you take it out of yourself; […]
Published
September 1, 2013

Tattoos are a hot brand

The dry dictionary definition of 'tattoo' (to puncture {the skin} with a needle and insert indelible colors so as to leave permanent marks or designs)

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