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May 19, 2013

Best-sellers

FICTION HARDCOVER 1. “The One-Way Bridge,” by Cathie Pelletier (Source Books) 2. “On Sal Mal Lane,” by Ru Freeman (Graywolf) 3. “White Dog Fell from the Sky,” by Eleanor Morse (Viking) 4. “Inferno,” by Dan Brown (Doubleday) 5. “The Flamethrowers,” by Rachel Kushner (Scribner) 6. A Delicate Truth,” by John le Carre (Viking) 7. “The […]
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May 19, 2013

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

Edited and introduced by Wesley McNair, Maine poet laureate. Alice Persons is a poet from Westbrook and a founding editor of Moon Pie Press, which has just released its 71st volume of poetry. In her poem for this week, “Stealing Lilacs,” she suggests that some thefts can be forgiven. Stealing Lilacs By Alice Persons A […]
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May 12, 2013

Author Q&A: A woman walks into a bar and finds community and culture

Thousands of hours of research give columnist Rosie Schaap stories about being a woman who frequents bars.
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May 12, 2013

Admiring how glacier sculpted Maine

HINCKLEY – The L.C. Bates Museum will present its summer art exhibition, “Gift of the Glacier: The Maine Landscape,” a collection of work from 23 artists portraying Maine’s landscape and geology. The exhibit opens Wednesday and runs through Oct. 15 at the museum on Route 201 in Hinckley. The show celebrates the beauty of Maine. […]
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May 12, 2013

Bob Keyes: At the Maine College of Art, good things come in fives

Graphic designer Sarah Mohammadi earned her degree from Maine College of Art on Saturday, capping an educational experience that she hopes will yield travel abroad and the chance to work professionally overseas. She got some real-world experience by pitching in with MECA’s recent design process that resulted in a new logo for the Portland art […]

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May 12, 2013

Calendar: Your Arts and Entertainment Guide

Art Philip Barter, new oil paintings and constructions in wood, Gleason Fine Art, Portland. gleasonfineart.com. Through June 29. “Voices of Design — 25 Years of Architalx,” interactive exhibition that showcases the power of design, through May 19; “Blueberry Rakers,” photographs by David Brooks Stess, through May 19; “A Taste of Modernism — The William S. […]
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May 12, 2013

Book Review: Doctor’s story gets to heart of chosen limits

Laura Warren is a radiologist in a small coastal Maine hospital. Always overjoyed when cancer isn’t found in her patients, she lives a quiet life of metastasized grief and regret that she hides from everyone, especially her husband, Dan, and Ben and Sally, her teenage son and daughter. Bright, extremely well read and a native […]
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May 12, 2013

In the Arts: Marshall finds more than just function in a paper bag

An old saw has it that the Visual Arts Center at Bowdoin is the box in which the College’s Museum of Art arrived in. Aside from the fact that the Center is junior to the Museum by about 85 years and aside from the fact that it pits Edward Larrabee Barnes, the Center’s designer and […]
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May 12, 2013

Signings, etc.: Jeff Foltz

Camden resident and author Jeff Foltz will sign copies of his new novel, “Two Men Ten Suns” and his award-winning novel, “Birkebeiner, A Story of Motherhood and War.” Foltz’s latest work is set during World War II and follows the lives of an American scientist and a Japanese officer, each battling his obsessions and flaws […]
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May 12, 2013

Tears of a clown: Comedian Julie Goell evolves with illness

What happens when a gifted physical comedian, in a cruel twist of fate, finds her motor skills being taken away by Parkinson's? If it's Julie Goell, she evolves. And keeps her sense of humor.

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