Arts & Entertainment

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October 7, 2012

Author Q & A: Schooling, island-style

Eva Murray of Matinicus has seen island schools from many perspectives. Now she takes up her pen to share this 'neat mix' of old-fashioned and high-tech education.
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October 7, 2012

In The Arts: Shows explore Maine woods, Paris graffiti, geometric abstraction

Jeff Kellar works on the severe edge of geometric abstraction. On first impression, his pieces are so chaste that thoughts about sensual qualities are a concealed form of leering. They seem so plotted, so engineered, so exquisitely achieved, that any potential for sensory delight has been squeezed out of them. His pieces appear to sit […]
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October 7, 2012

Signings, etc.

LINDA GREENWOOD
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October 7, 2012

Scene & Heard: For the Young at Arts

Young performers energize the crowd as Portland Ovations Presents! holds its annual auction to support community arts programs.
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October 7, 2012

Book Review: ‘Cancer’ looks at a Limington love from the inside out

Every once in a while an intensely personal book comes along that shares an intensely personal experience. One such book emerged recently from Limington. It is a religion-spirituality offering from WestBow Press written by Allie Wilcox and starkly titled “Cancer.” As Wilcox tells us in a subtitle, it is a story of “My Wife. My […]

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October 7, 2012

Movie Review: ‘Pitch Perfect’ a fine farce sure to bring laughs of glee

Who knew there was this much fun left in glee clubs so long after “Glee” jumped the shark? “Pitch Perfect” is a frothy, funny, dizzy and derivative farce set in the competitive world of college a cappella groups — “Glee” without the soap opera or the sex, but stuffed with comic caricatures, hilarious one-liners and […]
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October 7, 2012

AIRE puts its faith in playwright Brian Friel

We have the White Mountains to thank for giving us Will Rhys. Rhys, a veteran New York actor, relocated to Maine more than three years ago, in part because of our proximity to the White Mountains. He and his wife, Nancy Kluck, are avid outdoors people. They like to bike, camp and kayak. But mostly, […]
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October 7, 2012

‘Sisters’ holds sway at Portland Stage

Director Chris Gabrowski had a singular advantage when he agreed to direct Wendy Wasserstein’s classic family drama “The Sisters Rosensweig.” One of his former students worked for Wasserstein as a personal assistant. As he prepared this show for Portland Stage Company, Gabrowski kept his phone number on speed dial. The former student offered not only […]
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October 7, 2012

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

Elizabeth Coatsworth’s literary family includes her daughter, former state poet laureate Kate Barnes, and her husband, the nature writer Henry Beston. A noted author of children’s books during her life, she also wrote remarkable poems like this one about the territory around her homeplace of Nobleboro.
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September 30, 2012

Book Review: Here it is – the compendium of Maine’s ‘wilder’ past

William David Barry’s “Maine: The Wilder Half Of New England” is comprehensive in breadth. The book is so full of detail, it seems that Barry erred on the side of including every fact, event and personality rather than risk leaving something out. It’s not a book to be read in one or two sittings. There’s […]

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