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August 26, 2012

Author Q & A: Creativity put into words

Poet Stuart Kestenbaum's essays in 'The View from Here' illuminate a writer's progression and the symbiosis of community and artistic process.
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August 26, 2012

Bob Keyes: Mood(y) Music

The PSO conductor programs a 2012-13 season that features plenty of classics, but also shows his fun-loving side.
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August 26, 2012

Of summers and daydreams:Victoria Wulff’s Maine view

BOOTHBAY HARBOR — Paintings by New York City artist Victoria Wulff will be on view at the Studio 53 Fine Art Gallery, 53 Townsend Ave., Boothbay Harbor, beginning Wednesday. The show will remain on view through Sept. 24. A reception will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday. Wulff was lured to Boothbay Harbor […]
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August 26, 2012

Signings, etc.

MAX ALEXANDER
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August 26, 2012

Classical Beat: Understanding Mompou the composer, the man

By CHRISTOPHER HYDE My wife just bought me a five-CD set of the complete piano works of Federico Mompou for our anniversary. What makes it unusual is that the set, recorded in 1974, is played entirely by the composer, who was born in 1893. (It is no longer complete, since 80 more pieces were discovered after […]

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August 26, 2012

Dine Out Maine: White Cap for tourists and the Old Port office crowd

– Dining reviews practically write themselves when the experience is outstanding, and although less fun (since restaurants do represent a person’s livelihood), they are equally easy to compose when the experience involves a spectacular failure. The creative stumbling happens in the middle, when a meal is “meh.” Since “meh” does not translate as a technical […]
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August 26, 2012

Book Review: ‘Paterno’ offers few answers

Joe Posnanski moved to State College, Pa., to write a much different book. Posnanski imagined his biography of Penn State University’s heralded head football coach, Joe Paterno, would be about the man who, as Posnanski noted in a recent USA Today column, “always said that winning wasn’t what mattered. And yet, he won more games […]
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August 26, 2012

Audience Calendar

Art “The Draw of the Normandy Coast (1860–1960),” European and American paintings and works on paper, Portland Museum of Art. 775-6148; portlandmuseum.org. Through Sept. 3. “Maine Sublime: Frederic Edwin Church’s Landscapes of Mount Desert and Mount Katahdin,” Portland Museum of Art. portlandmuseum.org. Through Sept. 30. Duane Paluska, new paintings and sculpture, Icon Contemporary Art, Brunswick. […]
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August 26, 2012

Book Review: New focus on Maine’s most famous sea battle

“Two of the most remarkable aspects of the maritime war of 1812 were the extraordinarily high casualty rate among officers on both sides of the conflict and the mass of recorded anecdotal evidence pointing toward an equally high incidence of magnanimous behavior on the part of the same officers toward their opposite numbers in the […]
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August 26, 2012

Art Review: See Wegman in all his waggishness

“Hello Nature” is an elaborate production dedicated to reinventing William Wegman. It is an artistic midlife crisis writ large. First appearing as a 1970s deadpan-punning conceptual artist, Wegman is best known for photographs of Weimaraner dogs. “Hello Nature” is an ode to the artist’s connections to Maine through photos, paintings and drawings. It is a […]

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