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April 28, 2013

Movie Review: The making of Aussie soul sisters

“The Sapphires” is an unpolished gem of a musical, a dramedy with a familiar ’60s girl-group-on-the-rise story pasted over a backdrop of Australian racism and America’s long war in Vietnam. It’s a tribute to the filmmakers (director Wayne Blair, working from a Tony Briggs and Keith Thompson script) that this confection often manages to connect […]
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April 28, 2013

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

Bruce Guernsey of Bethel has appeared twice before in the Take Heart column. Today he offers a group portrait of a family at the dump. The Dump Pickers By Bruce Guernsey On Sundays carting my trash to the dump I’d see them swarming the piles like gnats, a whole family of pickers straight from Mass: […]
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April 21, 2013

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

The late Elizabeth Coatsworth was a member of a Maine literary family that included her late husband, Henry Beston, and also includes her daughter, Kate Barnes, a former state poet laureate who lives in Appleton. In this week’s poem, Coatsworth describes the tentative beginning of a Maine spring. Night Wind in Spring By Elizabeth Coatsworth […]
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April 21, 2013

An artistic decade in Biddeford

BIDDEFORD – The former Colette’s Cup Gallery, 146 Alfred St., is reopening this week for an exhibit, “Art in Biddeford: A 10-year Retrospective.” The exhibit, which opens from 5 to 10 p.m. Friday and noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, will feature works by local artists, including Kelly Jo Shows, Russel Whitten, Bud Swenson, Michelle Caron, […]
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April 21, 2013

Book Review: Atkinson enthralls in latest narrative

In Kate Atkinson’s “Life After Life,” Ursula Todd is born in the British countryside in 1910 — and dies almost immediately, umbilical cord wrapped around her neck, “a helpless little heart beating wildly. Stopped suddenly like a bird dropped from the sky.” No matter. She’s born again — and again and again and again. Each […]

Published
April 21, 2013

Calendar

Art “Inspirations from the Cape,” paintings, photography and ceramics by established and emerging artists, The DaVinci Experience Art Gallery, Falmouth. Sunday. “Rebirth,” art by Maine Artists Collective that is “non-religious” but “born again,” Constellation Gallery, Portland. constellationart.com. Through Tuesday. “Still Points of the Turning World,” contemporary photographers, Maine Jewish Museum, Portland. mainejewishmuseum.org. Through Thursday. “Spring […]
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April 21, 2013

Bob Keyes: Future brightens for African center

PORTLAND — Oscar Mokeme will still ask for money to help support what used to be known as the Museum of African Culture on Brown Street in Portland. And it will still be important that you give, if you are so inclined. But Mokeme may have less urgency in his plea. Earlier this month, an […]
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April 21, 2013

Society Notebook: Here and after

CeleSoiree honors immigrants as well as the people who help them build new lives in Maine.
Published
April 21, 2013

Art Review: Impressive pairings and other art highlights

Generally, I only review shows that are still on view for the public, but Aucocisco Galleries in Portland has just begun a particularly worthy series of 12 micro-short, two-person shows that will be opening every Thursday through June. To soften my conundrum, we’ll dance lightly this week around several venues in and around Portland. THE […]
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April 21, 2013

Dine Out Maine: It’s hard to find finer pub food than Frog and Turtle’s

I suspect the Frog and Turtle sometimes suffers the Maine curse of long memory. “Oh, you mean the Uffa! people?” or “Where Chicky’s Fine Diner used to be?” Both are true, and stalwart (non-millennial) locals know that despite several years of operation, this gastro pub is, indeed, the brainchild of Uffa! chef James Tranchemontagne and […]

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