Arts & Entertainment

Published
September 23, 2012

Scene & Heard: ‘Weatherbeaten’ look

A gala at the Portland Museum of Art provides a sleek preview of the Winslow Homer exhibition, now open to the public.
Published
September 23, 2012

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

Today’s featured poet is Martin Steingesser, Portland’s former poet laureate. His ecstatic poem celebrates a morning on the road, paying tribute along the way to two American poets noted for their own ecstatic celebrations.
Published
September 16, 2012

Author Q & A: Behind the seen

A new book on Harry Stump offers insight into his art, his interest in psychic phenomena, and a lesser-known episode as a resistance fighter in World War II.
Published
September 16, 2012

Calendar

Art “Addiction to Perfection,” encaustic paint and mixed media by Kimberly Curry and graphite on paper by Jeanne Titherington, 3Fish Gallery, Portland. 3fishgallery.com. Through Oct. 27. Frederick Lynch and James Linehan, “Geometry Meets Nature,” Littlefield Gallery, Winter Harbor. littlefieldgallery.com. Through Oct. 15. “Continuing Connections,” Michael Alpert, orchard photographs, Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle. turtlegallery.com. Through Oct. […]
Published
September 16, 2012

In The Arts: Enter the altered world of Victoria Wulff

Some shows strike me as compulsory, and they get reviewed. Others strike me as major efforts of their type, and they get reviewed too. A third category offers me personal enhancement, and I sometimes write about them. A final group floats in from out of the blue. Catalogs, announcements, requests and notes from informed people […]

Published
September 16, 2012

Book Review: Exploring the trials of fading enterprise

Michael Chabon's latest covers a vast universe of characters and culture.
Published
September 16, 2012

Dine Out Maine: For food and view far above the ordinary, Robert’s Maine Grill

My husband and I discovered Robert’s Maine Grill in Kittery on Labor Day as we traveled back from Massachusetts. We were looking for a place to eat along Route 1, contentedly driving in the opposite direction of backed-up tourists. But some of those drivers had the same idea — out-of-state cars took up half the […]
Published
September 16, 2012

TV: It’s a new season and a new love interest on ‘Boardwalk’

NEW YORK — For the first two seasons of “Boardwalk Empire,” romance was elusive for Enoch “Nucky” Thompson. He rules Atlantic City, N.J., as its city father, major-domo mobster and, with this HBO drama set in Prohibition days, its reigning bootlegger. But never mind all that. Nucky (played by unlikely leading man Steve Buscemi) wants […]
Published
September 16, 2012

Movie Review: Murky, but ‘Nemo’ in 3-D still delights

The Oscar-winning animated feature “Finding Nemo” doesn’t need to fish for compliments: Newly rereleased in 3-D, the 9-year-old Disney/ Pixar marvel about a single-father clown fish searching for his son is a welcome sight on the big screen, where you can feel the undiminished immensity of the ocean and the bulk of a whale in […]
Published
September 16, 2012

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