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February 17, 2013

Society Notebook: Prez Club

'One of the only nonpartisan Lincoln Clubs in the country' toasts its presidential namesake at an annual dinner.
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February 17, 2013

Screenwriter starting fresh with a spinoff to ‘Star Wars’

More than 30 years after the first film in the trilogy, Lawrence Kasdan says he's excited to return.
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February 17, 2013

Signings, etc.

MARYANNE O'HARA
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February 17, 2013

Book Review: The fine yet frightening process of growing up

Author Karen Russell combines twilight zone with coming of age in the eight stories of 'Vampires.'
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February 17, 2013

Portland artist’s broom illustrations sweep away judges

Daniel Minter won a Coretta Scott King Award for his illustrations for a children's book about a generations-old African-American tradition.

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February 17, 2013

Movie review: ‘Die Hard’ so stupid it even bores Willis

Early on in “A Good Day to Die Hard” comes a prolonged car/truck chase through the clogged streets of Moscow that contains some of the most impressive stunt driving I’ve ever seen in a movie. As far as I could tell, director John Moore (“Max Payne,” “The Omen”) used little to no computer-generated imagery in […]
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February 17, 2013

Art Review: ‘Flat Earth’ scores visually, falls a bit flat on message

I have very mixed feelings about “This Flat Earth / Esta Tierra Plana” at Rose Contemporary in Portland. On one hand, it’s an exciting concept show featuring works by artists from Maine and Spain. Yet the show takes its lead from Thomas Friedman’s book “The World Is Flat,” in which the free-trade advocating author supports […]
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February 17, 2013

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

The distinguished author Robert Siegel of South Berwick, a writer of award-winning fiction and some of this state’s best poetry, died last December. But his poems live on, including this one. Robert once said of “Airfield” that it dates back to the days of the Cold War, “when the U.S. and Russia kept nuclear-armed planes in the air round the clock” – planes he saw from his window, landing and taking off at a nearby air base. “One day,” he said, “it struck me that they were like Satan in Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost,’ ‘the wounded god circling the globe, never resting.’ ” His poem reminds us that all these years later, as we carry on with our everyday lives, the reality of war continues.
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February 10, 2013

Society Notebook: A leg up

That's what the Dancing with the Realtors event is ultimately all about -- helping to give a low-income family a chance at home ownership.
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February 10, 2013

Book Review: A story of struggles after lives fall apart

Karen E. Bender's book is dotted with discussions of love, faith and belonging.

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