Arts & Entertainment

Published
November 25, 2012

Film Review: ‘Red Dawn’ less weepy, lacks logic, but not bad

“Red Dawn” is a lot funnier than you remember. This remake is based on 1984’s Reagan-era rah-rah movie about rural footballers who run Russian invaders and their Cuban and Nicaraguan surrogates out of America. The new “Red Dawn” dispenses with a lot of that red-meat Red-State “reds” scariness and settles into a solid if silly […]
Published
November 25, 2012

Society Notebook: It’s a win-win situation

Town & Country Credit Union awards grants to nonprofits, which in turn help Mainers in need.
Published
November 18, 2012

Book Review: Belly laughs, potty mouth

Naughty, yes -- but this Mommy is outrageous in so many funny ways.
Published
November 18, 2012

Book Review: Angst, art and infidelity play out on a Maine peninsula

If Christine Schutt lacks the name recognition of some authors, she has earned the acclaim that many seek. Her previous novels were chosen as finalists for the National Book Award in 2004 and the Pulitzer Prize in 2009. Flirting with greatness may well be an occupational hazard for this Blue Hill author. It’s certainly a […]
Published
November 18, 2012

Postcards from the cutting edge

A new exhibition by nine women at the gallery at UNE explores what art in the 21st century is all about.

Published
November 18, 2012

Author Q & A: Deathly tale

Andrew Vietze and Stephen Erickson collaborate on a book about the desperate, starving victims of an 18th-century shipwreck off Maine.
Published
November 18, 2012

Classical Beat: Eventually, Pan-pipes can have hollow ring

By far the longest movement (over 30 minutes) of Mahler’s gigantic Third Symphony — which was performed on Friday at Merrill Auditorium by artists associated with the University of Southern Maine under conductor Robert Lehmann — is the first movement, titled “The Awakening of Pan.” Besides being the god of critics, Pan, as the god […]
Published
November 18, 2012

Dine Out Maine: Go west to 91 South to be wined and dined to perfection

The plotline is familiar: After much seeking, the girl falls deeply in love with the boy who lives next door. Except in this case, the boy next door is the restaurant around the corner — and the “restaurant” is actually 91 South, a wine club tucked inside Gorham’s Pine Crest Inn. What is a wine […]
Published
November 18, 2012

Television: Reliving an American nightmare

Ken Burns turns his lens on the Dust Bowl in a two-night PBS special.
Published
November 18, 2012

Bob Keyes: The bad-boy elf returns

You’d better be careful if you see Dustin Tucker on the street or working out at the club. He may be scouting you. “I meet people that are in the show all the time,” said Tucker, who reprises the role of the naughty elf in David Sedaris’ true-life comedy “The Santaland Diaries.” “I met this […]

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