Arts & Entertainment

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January 13, 2013

Society Notebook: Facebook to Face

Social media friends like the chance to mingle in person.
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January 13, 2013

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

A home is commonly a place of refuge and safety. But not always, as veteran poet Patricia Ranzoni, of Bucksport, shows in this week’s poem.
Published
January 6, 2013

Book Review: A memoir of the good life’s spiritual side

Betty Elaine Williams has something to tell us in her memoir, “Mumma, Can You Hear Me?” about how to live a life of meaning. For Williams, it is much to do with faith, not merely spiritual faith, though that is central to her story. She spent 20 years in South America as a missionary, and […]
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January 6, 2013

Art Review: Bullish on wide-ranging display of pioneering women’s work at UNE

“Maine Women Pioneers III: Homage” is a fascinating show for myriad reasons. For starters, it not only gives a preview of Lois Dodd (born 1927) before her major solo show opens at the Portland Museum of Art later this month, it puts Dodd in the context of some of her finest contemporaries — 12 other […]
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January 6, 2013

Calendar

Art “Between Past and Present: The Homer Studio Photographic Project,” contemporary photography made with historic processes, Portland Museum of Art. portlandmuseum.org. Through Feb. 17. “The Portland Society of Art and Winslow Homer’s Legacy in Maine,” exploring the artistic relationship between Homer and the architect John Calvin Stevens and the early years of the Portland Society […]

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January 6, 2013

Movie: Directors struggle to find ‘The end’

Even with Oscar nominees, movie goers seem more and more to be leaving the theater confused and/or frustrated.
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January 6, 2013

Bob Keyes: Every picture will tell a story

Summer is for reading, but Maine winters seem particularly hospitable for ordering our thoughts and committing them to paper. It’s a season of staying home, stoking the fire and accomplishing some serious writing. The Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance gives us incentive to sharpen our pencils this winter with summer reading in mind. The alliance […]
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January 6, 2013

Book Review: Lives of affliction, tempered by resolve

Be prepared for a powerful rendition of the African-American experience.
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January 6, 2013

Niche Carved

Dorothy Schwartz has spent her artistic career refining her skill as a maker of prints – especially woodcuts. A retrospective of that work goes up at the Maine Jewish Museum.
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January 6, 2013

New at PMA: Six decades of artist Lois Dodd

PORTLAND — Lois Dodd is best known for painting the world around her, from her apartment windows in New York City to the woods and gardens of Maine and New Jersey. The Portland Museum of Art opens a new exhibition, “Lois Dodd: Catching the Light,” next week that explores the career of the painter and […]

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