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Arts & Entertainment

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June 23, 2013

Author Q &A: Highly motivated

In his new book, Hallowell's John Gibson revisits some Henry David Thoreau hikes – and tells readers how they can experience the same peaks today.
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June 23, 2013

Joan Baez: Just plain folk

Ironically, it was ‘all opera and classical’ growing up for Joan Baez, who of course would go on to become perhaps the iconic singer-songwriter of her generation.
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June 23, 2013

Book Review: McCann writes like ‘a force of nature’

His latest novel employs a stream-of-consciousness approach to span 150 years
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June 23, 2013

Classical Beat: Music festivals about to burst into bloom

Don’t look now, but the summer music festival season is already upon us. The DaPonte String Quartet’s summer schedule began Saturday at the Denmark Arts Center. The program will be repeated at Centennial Hall in Harpswell on July 9 and St. Columba’s Church in Boothbay on July 11. The first series is devoted to trios […]
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June 23, 2013

Ogunquit-born, ‘Cycles’ lands in Winter Harbor

WINTER HARBOR – The Schoodic Education Research Center is featuring an ambitious art installation by renowned East Coast painter George Wardlaw. The exhibit — “Cycles: Time, Light, Life” — is composed of a series of eight massive canvases inspired by Wardlaw’s visits to Ogunquit during a 24-hour solstice period in June 2000. Each canvas measures […]

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June 23, 2013

Movies: Pixar’s ‘Monsters’ crew goes to college

The director and his team steeped themselves in campus culture to prepare for 'Monsters University.'
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June 23, 2013

Television: Remarkable ‘Mad Men’ season ends on Sunday

The sixth, and possibly next-to-last, season, of “Mad Men” ends with an episode titled “In Care Of,” for which the AMC site offers this description, reproduced here in full: “Don (Jon Hamm) has a problem.” Speculation has seeped into the information void — doubtless all of it wrong — ranging from the death of Don’s […]
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June 23, 2013

Signings, etc.

MARTHA WHITE
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June 23, 2013

U.S. films building links to China

Studios add Chinese elements to American movies because it offers a growing market.
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June 23, 2013

Mourning the loss of a true champion of the arts

Philip Isaacson’s clear voice will forever be irreplaceable, but it will never be truly gone. A half-century of articles cannot be unprinted or unread. The countless doors he opened for innumerable readers onto myriad artists, works and ideas cannot be closed. Isaacson, who died at age 89 Thursday, wrote about the arts for the Maine […]