Arts & Entertainment

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March 3, 2013

Society Notebook: One splashy bash

Rippleffect, which offers kayaking opportunities to Maine youths, celebrates past, present and future at a gala Thursday night.
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March 3, 2013

Signings, etc.

JAMES ARTHUR
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March 3, 2013

Dine Out Maine: White Barn Inn’s bistro puts high-end spin on comfort food

For the sake of argument, let’s say that cost isn’t an issue when you are choosing a place to eat this month. You have heard wonderful things about grand chef Jonathan Cartwright’s prix fixe menu at the White Barn Inn in Kennbunk Beach. That haute dinner experience has been reviewed in these pages (to a […]
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March 3, 2013

Young artists show what they can do

In celebration of National Youth Art Month in March, the Portland Museum of Art and the Maine Art Education Association are teaming up to present artwork by students in kindergarten through 12th grade. The exhibition, on view through March 31 at the museum, showcases more than 100 works by students throughout the state. This year […]
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March 3, 2013

Movie review: ‘Dark Skies’ chills but lacks thrills

The standard-issue alien abduction thriller gains a few paranormal touches and a taste of the living dead in “Dark Skies,” a sometimes hair-raising riff on all the “Communions” that have come before. It’s a passably chilling bit of nonsense that builds on the past, the tropes of the genre, and relies on them for the […]

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March 3, 2013

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

Louise Bogan was born in Livermore Falls and returned often to Maine in her later life. Though her output was small, her brief lyrics are some of the most beautiful in American literature.
Published
February 24, 2013

Keyes: In a historic former school, a Star is born

KITTERY – Since he founded his professional theater company in southern Maine in 2006, director Kent Stephens has been waiting for the appropriate time to present the play “Cape May.” With the opening of the Star Theatre at the Kittery Community Center, Stephens seems to have the perfect opportunity. “Cape May” will open the theatrical […]
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February 24, 2013

Dine Out Maine: J’s Oyster upholds its authentic seafood street cred

J’s Oyster offers character without dipping into caricature, and this, I suspect, divides diners into two camps: Those who relish the J’s hole-in-the-wall experience and those who do not. It’s important to manage expectations, and because J’s is a joint that has welcomed oyster seekers to Portland’s waterfront since 1977, it’s doing something right. Over […]
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February 24, 2013

Book Q & A: Quest for life

In Megan Frazer Blakemore's new book, three friends set off on a journey to find the Fountain of Youth to cure one youngster's father.
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February 24, 2013

Academy Awards: Visual acuity

A CG-effects wizard in New Zealand via Gorham High, Eric Saindon finds himself in the running for an Oscar.

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