Arts & Entertainment

Published
July 22, 2012

In flight with ‘Butterfly’

PORTopera recruits top-notch singers to present one of the most beloved operas.
Published
July 22, 2012

Art Review: Maine moved Church, and vice-versa

Frederic Church (1826-1900) was one of America’s most significant and talented 19th-century artists. He was a prolific and successful painter whose life was so well documented that it would be easy to see him as a fixture of the well-worn and over-rehearsed art history books about the Hudson River School. Maybe. Then again, maybe not. […]
Published
July 22, 2012

Signings, etc.

HOWIE CARR
Published
July 22, 2012

Bob Keyes: Waterfront reflects a new energy in Boston

BOSTON — I grew up just outside of Boston, and was lucky enough to have parents who took us without hesitation to all the key attractions in the city. We went to the New England Aquarium soon after it opened in 1969, and returned regularly thereafter. I’ve been to Old Ironsides more times than I […]
Published
July 22, 2012

Author Q & A: Wild Brew Yonder

Dogfish Head founder Sam Calagione shares some secrets for creating uniquely flavored beers at home, complete with recipes.

Published
July 15, 2012

Arts Planner

• Circus performer Rob Mermin will be in Maine on Saturday and July 22 to present “Circle of Sawdust,” a one-man show of high adventure and low comedy from 40 years in the circus. He performs at 8 p.m. Saturday at Celebration Barn Theater in South Paris. At 7 p.m. July 22, he performs at […]
Published
July 15, 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,” small oil sketches, Portland Museum of Art. portlandmuseum.org. Through Sept. 30 “Art Is Community II,” show and sale […]
Published
July 15, 2012

Book Review: Detective story ‘Sunset’ delivers action-packed punch

John Bekker is a former police detective morphed into a hopeless drunk. His near-instant addiction to alcohol happened 10 years earlier when his wife was raped and murdered in their home. His daughter — traumatized by the terrible event she witnessed at age 5 — lives in a special home where she hasn’t spoken or […]
Published
July 15, 2012

Bob Keyes: Fenix returns Bard to nature’s place

Slow and steady hardly describes the growth of the Fenix Theatre Co. Meteoric might be more apt. The Portland-based theater troupe begins its fifth season of free outdoor Shakespeare this week with a production of “Macbeth.” As it has in the past, Rob Cameron and his groundlings will present a fast-paced, truncated version of a […]
Published
July 15, 2012

Book Review: Olympic hopefuls, on bikes and off

In Chris Cleave's 'Gold,' the challenges of life and elite athletics must coexist.

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