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September 23, 2012

Book Review: Boyle picks hard place for new tale

T.C. Boyle’s new novel, “San Miguel,” is written to the natural rhythms of a distant, isolated place, and to the human rhythms of tormented souls. San Miguel Island is a real place, the westernmost of the Channel Islands off the coast of Southern California. In Boyle’s book, it’s a patch of earth beyond the end […]
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September 23, 2012

Calendar

Art “Weatherbeaten: Winslow Homer and Maine,” 35 major oils and watercolors, Portland Museum of Art. portlandmuseum.org. Through Dec. 30. Maine Art Gallery Artists Exhibit, art depicting the open road and beyond, Atlantic Motorcar, Wiscasset. 882-7511. Through Oct. 30. Frederick Lynch and James Linehan, “Geometry Meets Nature,” Littlefield Gallery, Winter Harbor. littlefieldgallery.com. Through Oct. 15. “Continuing […]
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September 23, 2012

Author Q &A: Ida-ology

Susan Poulin gathers her stage character's wit and wisdom in a self-help book filled with Maine humor.
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September 23, 2012

If it’s ‘Pure’ country you seek … walk This Way

The Portland band has a mostly true story to tell with its new CD, which it will unveil at Empire on Friday.
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September 23, 2012

Bob Keyes: Maine-made indie thriller hits the open road

Dana Packard and Jennifer Nichole Porter feel like they are letting go of their baby. Their Maine-made indie film, “40 West,” gets its first taste of national distribution this week. Packard and Porter, a husband-and-wife team, have kept tight reins on the film until now, shopping it around to various festivals across the country and […]

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September 23, 2012

Art Review: PMA’s ‘Homer’ an extraordinary feat

“Weatherbeaten: Winslow Homer and Maine” is a show no one should miss. It is an ambitious and handsome presentation of Homer as the mature and indomitable Maine painter of world renown. While the Portland Museum of Art says the point of the exhibition of 38 works is to commemorate the newly restored Homer studio on […]
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September 23, 2012

Classical Beat: Portland Ovations rises to Stravinsky’s grand ‘Rite’

It is hard to believe that next May will mark the 100th anniversary of the riotous premiere of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” in Paris. The 2012-13 season will also mark the 100th anniversary of Merrill Auditorium and the Kotzschmar Organ. To commemorate the occasions, Portland Ovations will present a series of programs as audacious […]
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September 23, 2012

Dine Out Maine: Pricey, not pretentious, Five Fifty-Five worth every nickel

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a much merrier world.” This quote, from J.R.R. Tolkien and written on the dining room wall at Five Fifty-Five in Portland, set the tone for the evening, and because I was dining on the 39th anniversary of Tolkien’s death, […]
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September 23, 2012

Signings, etc.

PHILLIP HOOSE
Published
September 23, 2012

Book Review: Young-adult novel leaps into heart of dance world

Sarah Rubin grew up on an island off the Maine coast. But if you’re eager for a story about herring gulls, fishing boats and the mystery of the tides, you won’t find it in her new book, “Someday Dancer.” She lives now in Winchester, England. And in this book, you’ll find little hint of that […]

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