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July 14, 2013

Movie Review: Del Toro makes monsters cool in ‘Rim’

“Pacific Rim,” the latest jaw-dropper from director Guillermo del Toro (“Pan’s Labyrinth,” “The Devil’s Backbone,” “Hellboy”), contains some of the wildest, giddiest sights of any movie this summer — building-sized robots fighting enormous creatures from beneath the sea to the death, their brawls sometimes demolishing entire cities. This combination of Godzilla-style kaiju (giant monster movies) […]
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July 14, 2013

Television: HBO’s overhyped ‘Newsroom’ deserving of another shot

As season two of the HBO series “The Newsroom” gets under way on Sunday, the lawyers have arrived at the headquarters of the fictitious cable news network ACN. Lead attorney Rebecca Halliday (Marcia Gay Harden), who will represent ACN staffers in a wrongful-termination lawsuit, has nothing particularly optimistic to offer the condemned — not that […]
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July 14, 2013

Society Notebook: Multiple Choice

Down East honors the many exceptional winners of its Best of Maine awards.
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July 14, 2013

Signings, etc.

SIX MAINE POETS TO RECITE
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July 14, 2013

Movie Review: ‘Grown Ups 2’ about like ‘1,’ only far less funny

War, plague, pestilence, famine, tornadoes, drought, head lice, cold corn dogs, the fourth hour of the “Today” show, that Train song where the guy sings about wanting a two-ply hefty bag — all of these things are far, far worse than “Grown Ups 2.” And yet sitting through this deluded, directionless, relentlessly puerile comedy somehow […]

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July 14, 2013

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

Bethel’s Richard Blanco, who read his poetry at President Obama’s second inauguration last January, will appear at the Strand Theatre in Rockland on July 17. In today’s column he offers a love poem.
Published
July 13, 2013

Dine out Maine: Krista’s worth the trip for excellent beef, sandwiches, drinks

A friend recently asked where to find a good, reasonably priced steak away from downtown Portland, and the question stumped me. I thought of a dozen restaurants with excellent beef preparations, but none that screamed “steak.” I ticked off a mental list of unique salads, banquet-style slab locations, barbecue joints and mall-side chain options, but […]
Published
July 7, 2013

Art review: Bruno, Belasco and Page work well together

Since it opened in 2006, the Courthouse Gallery in Ellsworth has occupied an 1838 building listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The gallery has now expanded into its companion building, the old registry. A show of paintings by Colin Page hangs in the main gallery. I reviewed his recent show at Greenhut Galleries […]
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July 7, 2013

Society Notebook: Outwardly mobile

Grassroots environmental groups celebrate at the annual Toxics Action Center party.
Published
July 7, 2013

Book review: Are you going to finish that? Bet you will

Kate Christensen grabs our attention on the first page of her fierce, big-hearted memoir with a scene that readers won’t easily forget: A young family is eating breakfast when the husband erupts in a fit of rage and pummels his wife, their two small children looking on. Not only does the author witness this event […]

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