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December 16, 2012

TV: ‘Gossip Girl’ offers lesson in TV hype

Over a six-season run that ends Monday (8 p.m., The CW), “Gossip Girl” was a teen drama known for its love triangles, scandalous affairs, OMG moments, and lots of very bad behavior by very rich people. It also became a prime example of how a little show can make a big splash in today’s fragmented […]
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December 16, 2012

Portland Symphony Orchestra enters the ‘Magic’ season

Lyn Dillies puts more magic in “Magic of Christmas.” The Massachusetts-based illusionist joins the Portland Symphony Orchestra for this year’s “Magic of Christmas” concerts at Merrill Auditorium, 20 Myrtle St., Portland. Music director Robert Moody has conceived a program that includes the drama of magic, traditional stories from the Bible and festive holiday cheer. In […]
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December 16, 2012

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

In this week’s poem an elderly Maine woman tells such vivid stories about her early life, she transports her listener, poet Elizabeth Tibbetts of Hope, back to the past.
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December 9, 2012

A Capitol idea: Wildlife, landscape art exhibit

AUGUSTA — The Maine Arts Commission presents an exhibition of landscape photography and painted bas-reliefs of birds through February in Maine’s Capitol Complex as part of the agency’s Arts in the Capitol program. The works by John and Cynthia Orcutt and Hugh Verrier were previously exhibited at the Schoolhouse Gallery in Kingfield. The art brings […]
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December 9, 2012

Calendar

ART “Weatherbeaten: Winslow Homer and Maine,” 35 major oils and watercolors, Portland Museum of Art. portlandmuseum.org. Through Dec. 30. “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 […]

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December 9, 2012

Book Review: Changes in Maine’s forests vividly described

“The Changing Nature of the Maine Woods” is the sixth book to highlight Maine’s forests that I have reviewed in these pages in as many years. Each investigated some aspect of the North Woods, as (full disclosure) did the chapter on Maine I wrote for a book about conservation in New England. Each author brought […]
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December 9, 2012

Art Review: Ipcar show authentic, important and completely enjoyable

Occam’s Razor is the law of parsimony – the idea that the explanation with the fewest assumptions is the likeliest. Addicted to efficiency, Americans subscribe to this whenever possible. Consequently, we tend to oversimplify art and artists. And once pigeonholed, artists are easy to dismiss. However, essentializing artists is like explaining a meal or solving […]
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December 9, 2012

Dine Out Maine: Seafood the specialty of this house

The Freeport Seafood Co. offers lots of lobster dishes, along with plenty of other choices from land and sea.
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December 9, 2012

Bob Keyes: The streets of Portland, in black and white

Doug Bruns moved to Portland from Baltimore in 2009 and proceeded to wander around the city with a 35-mm camera. His purpose was simply to chronicle his surroundings and send images to his friends and family to introduce them to his new city. He shot a lot of nice images and captured Portland with an […]
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December 9, 2012

When Charles Dickens came to Portland

And why he left town feeling a bit like Scrooge.

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