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April 15, 2012

Signings, etc.: Sarah Fiorini

Sarah Fioroni will be talking about and signing her new book, “A Family Farm in Tuscany.” Fioroni has been a chef, cooking instructor, sommelier, and manager of her family’s organic farm near historic San Gimignano, in Italy. The book includes family stories, traditions and recipes. WHEN: 7 p.m. Thursday WHERE: Longfellow Books, One Monument Way, […]
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April 15, 2012

Dine Out Maine: The Fresh Batch: Good food, nice variety in a friendly space

The Fresh Batch looks like it belongs in a college town, peopled with students hunched over their laptops and nursing their espresso drinks or burritos at any time of day or night. But the restaurant resides in Freeport, sandwiched between retail outlets just off Main Street. And the clientele ranges from the very young to […]
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April 15, 2012

Bob Keyes: There are praises to be sung at USM

This coming weekend will be one of celebration for the University of Southern Maine School of Music, when generations of USM alumni return for a musical homecoming. The centerpiece will be a performance of the epic choral work “Carmina Burana,” scheduled for 3 p.m. April 22 at Merrill Auditorium. The USM Concert Band and Chorale […]
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April 15, 2012

Book Review: ‘Arcadia’ a fictional romp in author’s peerless fashion

Once in a great while, a book comes along that is so strikingly singular yet so pleasingly spot-on, it deserves a “Hurrah!” before anything else. So “Hurrah!” to Agnes Bushell’s “Death in Arcadia,” a detective novel and fictional romp through Portland’s contemporary social strata, centered on what is undoubtedly the Maine College of Art. Although […]
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April 15, 2012

‘I like to get creative’

That pretty well sums up Hebron Academy student Yena Kang, who recently received national recognition for her considerable artistic talent.

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April 15, 2012

Art Review: Math and earthy science at Aucocisco

The works of Grace DeGennaro and Brece Honeycutt currently on display in the exhibition “Woven Mysteries” at Aucocisco Galleries in Portland have an immediate effect on each other. For starters, the literal folds of Honeycutt’s work put the binary logic of DeGennaro’s paintings in the folded context of mirror imagery. Conversely, DeGennaro’s tight connection to […]
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April 15, 2012

Scene & Heard: Soiree celebrates One Longfellow Square’s growth in community

'Partners keep finding us. I have a very busy email inbox,' says executive director Rob Ellis.
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April 15, 2012

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

In today's poem, May Sarton shapes the small event of a turtle's death into a commentary on mortality and the meaning of life.
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April 15, 2012

Art Review: The mysteries and joys of printmaking

A long time ago, Pat Nick invited me to come to the Vinalhaven Press and make a print. It was an aberration on her part and an epiphany for me. Deprived of functional skill in the arts, I fumbled my way through two etchings. One was a disgrace; the other so fills me with wonder […]
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April 8, 2012

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THIS WEEK The Maine State Museum in Augusta will celebrate Maine’s role in the evolution of the board game when it hosts an illustrated talk, “Milton Bradley and the Checkered Game of Life,” at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. David Richards, interim director of the University of Maine Margaret Chase Smith Library in Skowhegan, will talk about the […]

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