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May 5, 2013

Vintage silent films twinned with live gypsy swing music

ROCKLAND – Hot Club of San Francisco presents “Cinema Vivant,” an evening of vintage silent films accompanied by live gypsy swing music beginning at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Strand Theatre in Rockland. Made up of accomplished and versatile musicians, Hot Club of San Francisco will celebrate the music of Django Reinhardt, a pioneering jazz […]
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May 5, 2013

Book Review: Giving fans of Westerns the big picture

If the reader is anything like this baby boomer, he or she will find it impossible to calculate the number of hours spent watching television or movie Westerns. From playing cowboys and Indians as children in imitation of Hopalong Cassidy or Annie Oakley, to watching John Wayne or Barbara Stanwyck on the big screen (and […]
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May 5, 2013

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

Edited and introduced by Wesley McNair, Maine poet laureate.
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May 5, 2013

McConaughey gets down and dirty in ‘Mud’

“How the heck did he get on that island? How long has he been there? How the heck did he get cigarettes? How did he get Beanie-Weenies?” Those are just a few of the urgent questions Matthew McConaughey had for Jeff Nichols once the actor had pored over the writer / director’s screenplay, “Mud,” and […]
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April 28, 2013

Book Review: Allende’s new novel different — and not

Her lyrical writing remains, though it tells a much more gritty, violent tale.

Published
April 28, 2013

Best-Sellers

FICTION HARDCOVER 1. “Poems to Learn by Heart,” by Caroline Kennedy (Disney) 2. “I Love Bugs,” by Philemon Sturges (HarperCollins) 3. “Gone Girl,” by Gillian Flynn (Crown) 4. “Good Night Maine,” by Adam Gamble (Our World of Books) 5. “If I Built a House,” by Chris Van Dusen (Dial) 6. “Blueberries for Sal,” by Robert […]
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April 28, 2013

Book Review: Book a memoir for people of the woods

“Someone — I wish I could remember who — has since described me as ‘a man in the woods with his head full of books, and a man in books with his head full of the woods.’ “ So writes Sidney Lea, Vermont’s current poet laureate. Without sentiment but with a lot of love, his […]
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April 28, 2013

Calendar: Your Arts and Entertainment Guide

Art “Forest for the Trees,” multi-artist show, Aarhus Gallery, Belfast. aarhusgallery.com. Through Sunday. “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, Portland Museum of Art. portlandmuseum.org. “Decorating the Everyday: Popular Art from the Farnsworth,” […]
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April 28, 2013

Art Review: Follow Stephan’s maze of ‘Paths’ at Coleman Burke

Aaron Stephan’s “Paths” at Coleman Burke Gallery in Brunswick is amazing. But it doesn’t look like an exhibition; it’s a work site. The huge gallery is filled with tools, materials, dust and the elements of a giant construction project. The completed art brought for display is hung around the corner out of immediate sight, leaned […]
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April 28, 2013

Bob Keyes: For Fort Kent native and Bates alum, all’s well in Metropolis

Andrew Cyr admits, it feels really good to be right. The Fort Kent native and Bates College graduate began the Manhattan-based Metropolis Ensemble seven years ago for the single purpose of giving young classical music composers a chance to be heard. So far, it’s worked out well. The ensemble performs across New York, drawing nontraditional […]

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