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April 8, 2012

Best-Sellers

FICTION HARDCOVER 1. “Mockingjay,” by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic) 2. “Catching Fire,” by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic) 3. “11/22/63,” by Stephen King (Scribner) 4. “Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea,” by Morgan Callan Rogers (Viking) 5. “The O’Briens,” by Peter Behrens (Pantheon) 6. “The Sense of an Ending,” by Julian Barnes (Knopf) 7. “Elegy for […]
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April 8, 2012

CALENDAR: YOUR ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE

ART “Edgar Degas: The Private Impressionist,” drawings, prints, pastels, photographs and sculptures, Portland Museum of Art. 775-6148; portlandmuseum.org. Through May 28 Michael Bell-Smith, lo-fi environments, Maine College of Art (Institute of Contemporary Art), Portland. 699-5029. Ends today. “In a State of Becoming: Inuit Art from the Collection of Rabbi Harry Sky,” Bowdoin College (Peary-MacMillan Arctic […]
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April 8, 2012

Dine Out Maine: Emilitsa infuses Greek dishes with inspired colors, flavors

“A customer’s dining experience begins long before the first taste. It starts the moment they walk through the door: A friendly greeting, a welcoming environment, a drink preference remembered. All of this occurs even before the amuse-bouche. It doesn’t stop until the last crumb of dessert, the final sip of Greek coffee, or even when […]
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April 8, 2012

Art Review: Facebook show succeeds as questioning, interactive art

For younger Americans, Facebook is a fully integrated aspect of normal social life. Yet for many others, the viral logic that makes social media so pervasive is precisely the thing that makes it seem so alien. As I grew up, there were three television stations – the three networks – and Americans mostly watched the […]
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April 8, 2012

Television: In ‘Magic City,’ a sordid, carnal Miami

The Starz channel drama that just debuted depicts an unruly time in the city and all of its depravity.

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April 8, 2012

Portland architecture cast in new light

As he demonstrates in his photographic "Homage" to the painter, Clyde McCulley has a Hopper-esque appreciation for the play of sun and shadow.
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April 8, 2012

Signings, etc.: Author Tovar Cerulli

Author Tovar Cerulli will be at Longfellow Books this week talking about and signing his book “The Mindful Carnivore: A Vegetarian’s Hunt for Sustenance.” WHEN: 7 p.m. Thursday WHERE: Longfellow Books, One Monument Way, Portland HOW MUCH: Free INFO: Longfellowbooks.com
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April 8, 2012

Manyan, Yates exhibit at Thomaston gallery

THOMASTON — Frost Gully Gallery, 150 Main St., will present an exhibition of figure paintings by Saco artist Janet C. Manyan and recent still-life and landscape paintings by Sharon Yates, who lives in Lubec. The exhibition runs from Saturday through May 19. Manyan and Yates have dual careers as painters and teachers – Manyan at […]
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April 8, 2012

Maine fisherman hopes to be Sundancing

Joel Strunk, the son of Maine songwriter Jud Strunk, has made a feature-length film with a cast of stars for less than a $1 million.
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April 8, 2012

TAKE HEART: A Conversation in Poetry

Alice Persons of Westbrook is the co-founder of Moon Pie Press, which lists books by a range of poets, both new and established. In today’s poem, she muses about spring’s influence on the natural world and on us. Mud Season / By Alice Persons After a brutal Maine winter the world dissolves in weak sunshine […]

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