Arts & Entertainment
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PublishedDecember 23, 2012
Author Q & A: Clothes-Minded
Siobhan McDonough's passion for fashion comes through in her new book, 'My Mother's Dressing Room.'
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PublishedDecember 23, 2012
Movies: Dramatizing the ultimate ‘Dark’ op
In 2008, the screenwriter Mark Boal sought an appointment with a retired special-ops agent. Boal was researching a movie about the fruitless search for Osama bin Laden in the caves of Tora Bora six years before, and he wanted insight into how U.S. forces gathered intelligence. The agent agreed to meet, but under strict conditions. […]
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PublishedDecember 23, 2012
Jingle bell shop
The Old Port – and hundreds of visitors – revel in Merry Madness.
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PublishedDecember 23, 2012
Book Review: Mystery, suspense disrupt tiny isle
Chris Ewan's fictional tale is told intelligently and with plenty of action.
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PublishedDecember 23, 2012
Art Review: Paint – thick and fresh – and two young artists to watch
One distinction we don’t make often enough is between the roles played by brushwork and paint itself. There is a graphic quality to Maine painting in general that is tied to the high esteem we put on mark-making and brushwork. But brushwork bravado isn’t the only thing you can appreciate. Sometimes, artists indulge in the […]
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PublishedDecember 23, 2012
Signings, etc.
J.R. MACKENZIE
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PublishedDecember 23, 2012
The case for the Fine Print
The late David Becker developed a deep appreciation of printmakers and their art while at Bowdoin College. He paid it forward with his bequest to the school of some 1,500 works, about 80 of which are now on view in its art museum.
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PublishedDecember 23, 2012
Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry
In 1861, Longfellow’s wife, Frances, died from the burns she suffered after an ember from the fireplace set her dress on fire. Some say Longfellow grew his beard to hide the scars that resulted from trying to put the fire out. In today’s poem he looks back on his wife’s death, 18 years later.
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PublishedDecember 16, 2012
Movies: A legend’s personal flaws treated gently in ‘Hitchcock’
Despite bringing Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein into the proceedings as a fanciful one-man Greek chorus, haunting Alfred Hitchcock’s dreams as he prepares the Gein-inspired “Psycho,” the biopic “Hitchcock” presents a gentle and forgiving view of Hitchcock’s penchant for playing Svengali and, depending on the source being cited, possible thwarted Lothario to more than one […]
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PublishedDecember 16, 2012
Animal welfare society
That would be Arron Sturgis and his team, charged with restoring three of Bernard Langlais' iconic wooden sculptures.
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