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May 12, 2013

Dine Out Maine: With Vietnamese soup, or pho, it’s all about the broth

There are so many newish Asian restaurants in Cumberland County that reviewing them all would stretch into winter. For this column, I thought I’d concentrate on one traditional Vietnamese dish, a bowl of pho, at a few of them to see how they compared. Pho is a traditional noodle soup of Vietnam, a comforting bowl […]
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May 12, 2013

Book Review: Woman’s loneliness, anger prove gripping

Midway through “The Woman Upstairs,” Claire Messud’s spellbinding, psychologically acute and deliberately claustrophobic new novel, a character explains to the first-person protagonist how our view of a story is framed by the way it begins. There’s no forgetting how 42-year-old Nora Eldridge begins her account of life as the woman upstairs — that characteristically “quiet […]
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May 12, 2013

Movie Review: Carey Mulligan fits well as object of desire in ‘Gatsby’

When Daisy Buchanan attends a party at Jay Gatsby’s mansion in the new film version of “The Great Gatsby,” she’s wearing a crystal-coated chandelier dress by Prada and a drool-worthy pearl and diamond headpiece by Tiffany. The look is the glamour of the Jazz Age personified. Such costumes were a big help to Carey Mulligan, […]
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May 12, 2013

Show is hip, elegant, conceptually edgy

‘Surface Tension” makes a curatorial case about why Space Gallery in Portland has been looking particularly good for the past year or two. The works are by local artists whose work I have mostly seen before. But in this show, organized by erstwhile Bowdoin curator Diana Tuite, their conceptual edginess and a hip-but-grown-up elegance help […]
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May 12, 2013

Society Notebook: Using imagination for kids

Creative fundraising helps to keep the fun and learning going at the Children's Museum & Theatre of Maine.

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May 12, 2013

Classical Beat: With natural instruments, who needs electronics?

The upcoming appearance of “Stomp” at Merrill Auditorium, presented this Wednesday and Thursday by Portland Ovations (portlandovations.org) got me thinking about improvised instruments, such as trash cans and push brooms, and the human drive for making non-vocal music. The voice can be a wonderful instrument in itself, but since the Stone Age, man seems to […]
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May 12, 2013

Best-Sellers

FICTION HARDCOVER 1. “The High Skies Adventures of Blue Jay the Pirate,” by Scott Nash (Candlewick) 2. “Dahlov Ipcar’s Maine Alphabet,” by Dahlov Ipcar (Islandport) 3. “Mockingjay,” by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic) 4. “The Interestings,” by Meg Wolitzer (Riverhead) 5. “The Hit,” by David Baldacci (Grand Central) 6. “Tapestry of Fortunes,” by Elizabeth Berg (Random House) […]
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May 12, 2013

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

Edited and introduced by Wesley McNair, Maine poet laureate. Maine natives and tourists have long been attracted to the taste of lobsters. But in today’s spring poem Richard Foerster of Cape Neddick asks us to consider the allure of fresh, sauteed fiddleheads. Fiddleheads By Richard Foerster Only the first scrolls inscripted with the long winter’s […]
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May 5, 2013

Author Q&A: A fisher of stories

Dee Dauphinee's humor spices his tales about fly-fishing, traveling the world and life in Maine.
Published
May 5, 2013

At PMA, a dazzling collection starring icons of Modernism

Through Sept. 8, the Portland Museum of Art will be much more than it usually is. Icons of Modernism have made their way to summer in Maine. Even if you have never actually seen any of the William S. Paley Collection’s 60 paintings, drawings and sculptures, you will recognize many of them in “A Taste […]

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