Arts & Entertainment

Published
September 16, 2012

Scene & Heard: Star Quality

Celebrating the marriage of business and the arts at a gala party in Portland, Maine Creative Industries bestows its inaugural award on actress Glenn Close and her real-life husband, Idexx founder David Shaw.
Published
September 16, 2012

Book Review: ‘A Life in Letters’ adds another layer to Chamberlain

“Joshua L. Chamberlain: A Life in Letters,” a handsomely produced volume introduced and edited by seasoned Civil War scholars James McPherson and Maine’s own Thomas Desjardin, provides some 250 previously unpublished communications relating to the state’s most celebrated fighting general. They are nicely annotated, indexed and backed by fine illustrations. The bulk of the letters […]
Published
September 16, 2012

Art Review: ‘Beautiful Possibility’ show entertains, provokes thought

“Americanitis comes from an intense desire to git thar and an awful fear that you cannot.” — From the Philistine, New York Times, 1897 Do you suffer from Americanitis? San Francisco artist Alison Pebworth’s traveling show of paintings and more — “Beautiful Possibility,” currently at Space Gallery in Portland — can help you with that […]
Published
September 16, 2012

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

Patricia Ranzoni of Bucksport has been writing and publishing poetry about people and places in rural Maine for many years. She explains that today’s poem followed the “shocking generosity of a distinguished elder,” offered “at a time when health troubles loomed.” That generosity taught her, she says, to listen to her heart “for brave ways to say what feels inexpressible.”
Published
September 15, 2012

Winslow Homer: Making waves in the art world

The Portland Museum of Art has gathered 38 of Homer's works – all made at his studio on Prouts Neck – for a once-in-a-lifetime show.

Published
September 9, 2012

Fall TV preview of new network shows

What have the network minds dreamed up this time? Like it or not, we're about to find out.
Published
September 9, 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 9, 2012

Classical Beat: Classical? Pops? ‘Magic’? PSO figures to have your number

The upcoming season of the Portland Symphony Orchestra promises to be a strange and wonderful creation, with the hoariest of old chestnuts — the Beethoven Fifth, the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1, Prokofiev’s “Classical” symphony, the “William Tell” overture — mixed with some lesser-heard works. Of the latter, some are highly unusual ones, and some […]
Published
September 9, 2012

Dine Out Maine: Experience the fun of island dining at Cockeyed Gull

Reducing an evening to a number grade is tough. Try it. For example, an oceanside drive is the stuff of Maine’s late-summer legend, with sun-filled blue sky and Springsteen on the radio. The route rates an immediate 5 out of 5, but add the glut of tourist vehicles vying for Old Port parking and the […]
Published
September 9, 2012

Movie Review: Well-cast ‘Bachelorette’ doesn’t quite measure up

You could, if you wanted, sit in a dark theater and simply check off the similarities between the blockbuster “Bridesmaids” and this fall’s “Bridesmaids” knockoff, titled “Bachelorette.” Female bodily function jokes? Check. Inappropriate come-ons on an airline flight? Check. Crass, crude and fearlessly frank talk about sex, once reserved for the fraternity house? Check. Wedding […]

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