Arts & Entertainment

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June 30, 2013

Author Q&A: Place value

In his new book, Andrew Carroll ferrets outs unmarked spots across the country where big, historic things happened – including one in Portland.
Published
June 30, 2013

Renowned woodcut artist on display

New England artist Barbara Putnam shows her woodcuts in the continuing exhibition “Printmakers in Conversation” at PhoPa Gallery, 132 Washington Ave., Portland. The exhibition is on view through Aug. 10; Putnam will discuss her work at 5:30 p.m. July 11. Putnam has been making woodcut prints since the third grade. After printing her first carving, she was hooked […]
Published
June 30, 2013

Book Review: ‘One of Them’ may read familiar

Elliott Holt's new novel unfolds on a note that's evocative of the Samantha Smith story.
Published
June 30, 2013

Signings, etc.

DAVID S. SWANSON
Published
June 30, 2013

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

In this week’s poem Patricia Ranzoni of Bucksport finds what she calls 'generational presences and absences' in a rural Maine house.

Published
June 23, 2013

Book Review: Civil War generals were riddled with flaws

“Howeffer did zey vin!” mutters a German guest at Faulty Towers, staring down upon the hapless and prostrate Basil Faulty at the end of that British series’ classic, “The Germans.” I found myself repeating it like a mantra as I plowed through Diane Monroe Smith’s “Command Conflicts in Grant’s Overland Campaign: Ambition and Animosity in […]
Published
June 23, 2013

Calendar

Art Philip Barter, new oil paintings and constructions in wood, Gleason Fine Art, Portland. gleasonfineart.com. Through Saturday. “Monhegan Island” by Kevin Beers, and “Drawing on Porcelain” by Tim Christensen Gleason Fine Art, Boothbay Harbor. gleasonfineart.com. Through July 27. “A Taste of Modernism — The William S. Paley Collection,” 62 works from the Paley Collection at […]
Published
June 23, 2013

Art Review: Environmentally tuned-in artists pay their respects to ‘Silent Spring’

I associate the George Marshall Store Gallery in York with some of the most coherently handsome gallery shows I have seen in Maine: Good art that looks good together. The venue itself is just as quirky (and cool) as you could expect of a 19th-century store overlooking Maine tidal waters. But “Silent Spring” is a […]
Published
June 23, 2013

Television: From ‘Desperate’ to ‘Devious’ with maids, not housewives

Writer Marc Cherry and actress Eva Longoria team up for a Lifetime series.
Published
June 23, 2013

Society Notebook: Harking ‘Mad’

The Ad Club of Maine celebrates the end of the year with a 'Mad Men'-themed bash.

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