Arts & Entertainment

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April 7, 2013

Society Notebook: Hungry for change

Good Shepherd Food Bank bestows its humanitarian award at a dinner for friends and supporters who help in its mission to ease hunger in Maine.
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April 7, 2013

Recycling, Inuit-style: Caribou antlers carved into works of art

BRUNSWICK – The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum at Bowdoin College will feature a new exhibit, “Spirits of Land, Air, and Water: Antler Carvings from the Robert and Judith Toll Collection,” opening Thursday. The exhibit features more than 30 carvings from caribou antlers by Inuit from the Canadian Arctic. Also on display will be a selection of […]
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April 7, 2013

Signings, etc.

EDITH LUCAS PAGELSON
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April 7, 2013

Television: The game grows deadlier for the women of ‘Thrones’

A new season of the runaway HBO hit 'Game of Thrones' has shocking revelations aplenty.
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April 7, 2013

Bob Keyes: Using his celebrity for the greater good

When it came time for the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project to pick a celebrity guest for its big fundraiser this year, the choice seemed almost too obvious: Richard Blanco. The poet from Bethel, whose career and fame has shot stratospherically since he read at President Obama’s inauguration in January, was a brilliant first choice. That […]

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April 7, 2013

Movies: ‘Road’ doesn’t quite get there

People have been trying to film Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road,” the talismanic Beat novel, just about since the day it was published in 1957. “Heart Beat,” the 1980 semi-biopic, with John Heard as Kerouac; Nick Nolte as his madman muse, Neal Cassady; and Sissy Spacek as Cassady’s second wife, Carolyn, captured a little of […]
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April 7, 2013

Book Review: ‘Under the Isles of Shoals’ digs deep

“Under the Isles of Shoals: Archaeology & Discovery On Smuttynose Island” by well-known Piscataqua region writer J. Dennis Robinson might sound lofty and site-specific to the student and casual reader. It does indeed focus on one of the earliest spots inhabited by Europeans (the Maine-New Hampshire boundary weaves between the isles), and the little outriders […]
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April 7, 2013

Author Q & A: Leisurely talk

Two new books from Sellers Publishing in South Portland aim to help people make the most of their retirement years.
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April 7, 2013

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

In today’s poem Preston Hood, who lives and writes in Lyman, sings the praises of a newborn grandson.
Published
March 31, 2013

Dine out Maine: Byrnes’ Irish Pub suffers from nondescript food, so-so service

The closest restaurant that passengers encounter after getting off the Amtrak DownEaster in Brunswick is Byrnes’ Irish Pub, just steps away. Apparently, business has picked up some since train service started. But people who want distinctive food with their many beer choices would do well to venture a little farther. It’s not just that Brunswick […]

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