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August 19, 2012

Book Review: Readers of Deans book can ride out the storm at home

Here’s a question for you: Would you rather be a 13-year-old boy riding the bus from Portland to New Jersey on a snow-filled night, or be snug at home with a book by Maine writer Sis Deans of Gorham that will take the trip for you, generously filling it with teenage angst, insight and adventure? […]
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August 19, 2012

Arts Planner

This week • Fresh off its successful run of the Red Sox version of “Damn Yankees,” the Ogunquit Playhouse opens its next show of the summer this week with Dolly Parton’s “9 To 5: The Musical.” This production is based on the movie about three office workers and their plan to get even with their […]
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August 19, 2012

Dine Out Maine: After hundreds of dishes sampled, these rise to the top

In this column, my co-reviewer, Shonna Milliken Humphrey, and I seek to discover and communicate what makes a restaurant special or unique. That’s why you’ll seldom find us reviewing the chains. After personally logging just over 50 reviews for this newspaper, I thought it was time to highlight a few things that we’ve found particularly […]
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August 19, 2012

Author Q & A: Roads scholar

Ann Rockefeller Roberts wrote the book -- and has now revised it -- telling the story of Acadia National Park's carriage roads.
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August 19, 2012

Snap judgment

Photographer Samantha Appleton always looks for that intimate, one-of-a-kind image, whether as a foreign correspondent in bombed-out Baghdad or as a White House photographer in an elevator with the Obamas.

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August 19, 2012

Book Review: A case for Child as ‘cultural guerrilla’

The author's portrait of the celebrity cook looks at her place in American history.
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August 19, 2012

Movie review: Animated ‘ParaNorman’ delightfully spooky, edgy

Norman, the young hero of the animated delight “ParaNorman,” hears dead people. He sees them, too. So there’s no sense trying to comfort him because you think he’s missing his dead grandma too much. “Grandma’s in a better place.” “In the LIVING room?” Since Norman has grown up in Blithe Hollow, a town with a […]
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August 19, 2012

Audience Calendar

Art “Two Visions,” paintings by Lenora Leibowitz and photo- graphs by Rita Spinella Olsen, 3Fish Gallery, Portland. 3fish gallery.com. Through Saturday. “Illustrated Passages,” Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset. maineartgallery.org. Artists chose a piece of text to accompany their art. Ends Sunday. “The Draw of the Normandy Coast (1860–1960),” European and American paintings and works on paper, […]
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August 19, 2012

Art Review: Geometrical abstraction at its brilliant best

By DANIEL KANY Although not traditionally considered a Maine strong point, two of the best shows I have seen this year feature geometrical abstraction: Duane Paluska’s “New Paintings and Sculpture” at Icon Contemporary Art in Brunswick, and Ken Greenleaf’s “Intercept” at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport. It’s fascinating that the pictorial work […]
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August 19, 2012

Opera House Arts celebrates lives of ‘The Millay Sisters’

STONINGTON – This year marks the centennial of the Stonington Opera House, as well as the 100th anniversary of “Renascence,” one of the most famous and award-winning poems by Maine poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. In celebration of this shared milestone, Opera House Arts brings an original musical production, “The Millay Sisters: A Cabaret,” to […]

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