Arts & Entertainment

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August 12, 2012

Book Review: Ordinary events the stuff of wonder

A child's recollections celebrate human resilience – and break your heart.
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August 12, 2012

Portland’s Kotzschmar Organ is piping down

About to turn 100, the mighty Kotzschmar will soon be dismantled and restored. But before the Portland treasure goes temporarily quiet, it will be celebrated in a festival of concerts.
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August 12, 2012

Lois Dodd exhibit: Seeing the artist as teacher

DAMARISCOTTA — The Firehouse Center for the Falcon Foundation hosts an exhibition through Sept. 15 featuring the paintings of Lois Dodd and 40 of her students over the years. “Lois Dodd and Her Students” illustrates Dodd’s high artistic standards as well as her dedication to her students, said Firehouse curator David Dewey. While the work […]
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August 12, 2012

In the Arts: Shock of the new and amazing use of old method

‘Upon Reflection,” the title of an exhibition of photographs at the University of New England and its sumptuous accompanying catalog, implies a chance to reconsider and, perhaps, offer some thoughts about the future. The photographs are the work of Judy Ellis Glickman, a highly accomplished photographer. Her work is a classic example of the 30 […]
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August 12, 2012

Book signings, etc.: Nicole Fazio

Portland artist Nicole Fazio will be at Longfellow Books to sign her book “Journey of the Sea Glass” and meet with folks. The book, with no words, explores how sea glass comes to be. The story focuses on a soda bottle dropped overboard from a ship, and how its fragments turn up on a beach […]

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August 12, 2012

Author Q&A: Turning pro, an inspirational baseball story for children

Gorham author Bill Wise has turned the inspirational life story of William Hoy, a deaf ballplayer whose quiet determination made him a success, into a children's book.
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August 12, 2012

Review: ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ strange, beautiful and hopeful

“The prettiest place on Earth” is how 6-year-old Hushpuppy (played by Quvenzhane Wallis) thinks of the Bathtub, a muddy, tiny island on the Mississippi Delta that’s just one levee away from being under water. In the distance, there’s some sort of industrial city, presumably New Orleans, where she sees smokestacks and electrical towers. At home, […]
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August 12, 2012

Book Review: ‘Hard work, a gun and a car’ prove to be plenty

In the quirky, fast-moving mystery “A Cop Story,” main character Henry Donovan is a high-ranking homicide investigator in the FBI’s Special Investigations Unit. The year is 1994, the tail end of an era before DNA breakthroughs and computer technology changed the way cops work. It was a time, author Patrick J. Ouellette explains in his […]
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August 9, 2012

Maine organic clothing line finalist in online contest

Yarmouth-based Arrowhead is one of 18 finalists chosen from more than 2,500 entries.
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August 5, 2012

Arts Planner

• Maine State Music Theatre in Brunswick opens its season finale, “42nd Street,” on Wednesday. The Tony Award-winning musical runs until Aug. 25 at Pickard Theater on the Bowdoin College campus, 1 Bath Road. Tickets are available online at msmt.org, by phone at 725-8769, and at the Pickard box office. Ticket prices range from $36 […]

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