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October 14, 2012

Art Review: Whalley puts twos and twos together

Maine is not polished, but weather-beaten. It is glacier-ground, storm-buffeted and wizened by unrelenting Nature and her moody brood of seasons. Maine’s artistic legacy may be inextricably bound to the great landscape painters irresistibly drawn here, but its painterly voice — plaintive, practical and well-worn — reaches past landscape. Amongst Maine artists not based in […]
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October 14, 2012

Movie Review: ‘The Boom’ comedy a bit of a lightweight

Kid-friendly funnyman Kevin James is at his cuddliest in “Here Comes the Boom.” And he has to be. This amusing but sometimes unsettling comedy marries the teacher-turns-to-mixed martial arts mayhem of “Warrior” to that wholesome family dramedy “Mr. Holland’s Opus.” It works, after a fashion. But that doesn’t mean you won’t wince. James plays Scott […]
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October 14, 2012

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

A summer resident of Great Cranberry Island, Susan Deborah King has been giving voice to island life for several years. Today’s poem is a compelling example.
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October 14, 2012

Scene & Heard: Great strides for Strive

An annual fundraising auction and generous friends and supporters help the organization that helps young Maine adults with disabilities.
Published
October 7, 2012

A survivor’s story

Good Theater explores class struggle in the drama 'Good People.'

Published
October 7, 2012

Calendar

Art “Iconic America: The U.S. Outline as National Symbol,” University of Southern Maine (Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education), Portland. usm.maine.edu/maps. Through Feb. 28. “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 […]
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October 7, 2012

Art Review: Flirting with new form of conceptual art

Since the 1960s, we have generally thought of conceptual art as art whose primary vehicle is an idea rather than aesthetics or its physical medium. It is art with concepts worked out completely in advance of its perfunctory fabrication. Maine hasn’t typically been associated with conceptual art, and yet I think many of our most […]
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October 7, 2012

Bob Keyes: Lute at us now! A city’s leap forward

It is a sign of our maturity as an arts city that in a week’s time, Portland will host an avant-garde chamber music concert at an alternative arts venue, an early-music festival in a long-established church, and a pair of orchestra concerts featuring music by a leading contemporary composer in the city’s most prestigious concert […]
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October 7, 2012

Classical Beat: New technique keeps Maine guitarmaker on the cutting edge

A technique developed in Sweden for curing wood to be used as decking is advancing the art of building acoustic guitars at Bourgeois Guitars in Lewiston. The decking was developed too late to compete successfully against synthetic products, but the process, called Torrefaction, is now finding use in electric guitars and violins. Bourgeois is the […]
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October 7, 2012

Book Review: Rare case: Her second book does first proud

In 'Cutting Season,' the author opens up not only her writing but also the bounds of mystery form.

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