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November 11, 2012

Book Review: Kidnap tale with reptilian twists

The hostage thriller keeps a breathless pace – and the reader turning pages.
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November 11, 2012

Signings, etc.

KATE FLORA
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November 11, 2012

Art Review: Tom Hall at June Fitzpatrick: Powerful, powerful stuff

Tom Hall’s “Paintings” at June Fitzpatrick Gallery in Portland is one of the best gallery shows I have ever seen in Maine. Many of the paintings exude an undeniable and irresistible power. I mean that literally. While it is a great show, not all of the 27 paintings and six monotypes are equally successful. That […]
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November 10, 2012

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

Edited and Introduced by Wesley McNair, Maine poet laureate. Lewis Turco, who lives in Dresden Mills, is author of numerous poetry collections and The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics, called “the poets’ Bible” since 1968. In today’s intriguing poem he offers the description of a house – or is it something more than […]
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November 4, 2012

Those Found Footage guys are back

Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett, keepers of the VHS flame, host their sixth festival at Space.

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November 4, 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. “Iconic America: The U.S. Outline as National Symbol,” University of Southern Maine (Osher […]
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November 4, 2012

Exhibit explores Edo period supernatural prints

BRUNSWICK — An exhibition exploring themes of the supernatural and otherworldly creatures in woodblock prints of the late Edo period (1600–1868) will open Friday at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. The exhibition includes 40 woodblock prints from the private collection of Cornell University faculty member Dan McKee. A selection of the Bowdoin College Museum […]
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November 4, 2012

Book Review: Gerritsen’s latest a well-crafted thriller

Tess Gerritsen knows how to hook readers early. In “Last to Die,” her latest installment of her Rizzoli & Isles suspense series, the opening sentence reads: “On the night that thirteen-year-old Claire Ward should have died, she stood on the window ledge of her third-floor Ithaca bedroom, trying to decide whether to jump.” The second […]
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November 4, 2012

Art Review: Jon Marshall blazing a glazing trail

The greatest ancestor of Maine painting just might be Camille Corot (1796-1875), a leader of the Barbizon School in France. Claude Monet (1840-1926) is the obvious champion of Impressionism — the undeniable great grandparent of Maine landscape painting — and Monet did not quibble about his debt to Corot: “There is only one master here […]
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November 4, 2012

Classical Beat: PSO to showcase brilliant Strauss horn concerto on Nov. 18

I keep a copy of “The Glenn Gould Reader” in the bathroom and open pages at random, always finding something interesting or outrageous. His chapters on Richard Strauss, whom he regards as the greatest musical figure of the 20th century, turned out to be germane to the Nov. 18 concert of the Portland Symphony Orchestra, […]

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