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    April 1, 2012

    MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Thin Ice’ is a funny, tense trek

    There's something about the frozen Northern Plains, filled with folksy, trusting and righteous Midwesterners, that screams "Insurance fraud!" to screenwriters.

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    April 1, 2012

    Arts Planner

    Oak, Greece, the Portland Symphony Orchestra and Portland Ovations are all on tap in the near future.

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    April 1, 2012

    Audience Calendar

    Art “A Thickening Rhythm,” five artists, various media, installation and performance, Coleman Burke Gallery (Fort Andross), Brunswick. colemanburke.com. Through May 19. “Are You Really My Friend?”, Tanja Alexia Hollander’s photographs of her Facebook friends, Portland Museum of Art. 775-6148; portlandmuseum.org. Through June 17. Edgar Degas: “The Private Impressionist,” drawings, prints, pastels, photographs and sculptures, Portland […]

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    April 1, 2012

    Countdown to 25: Architalx gears up for anniversary

    The sold-out lecture series has designs on a really fabulous exhibition for its silver anniversary next year.

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    April 1, 2012

    Signings, etc.

    Author Katherine Mayfield will talk about her new memoir "The Box of Daughter: Overcoming a Legacy of Emotional Abuse" on Friday at the Portland Public Library.

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    April 1, 2012

    Gothic romance: UM-Machias students fall for long-dead author

    The students are working on reprinting the first novel published in Maine, 'Julia and the Illuminated Baron.'

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    April 1, 2012

    Tough critic had a soft spot for Maine

    Hilton Kramer, 84, died Tuesday at a nursing home in Harpswell. Although his career as an art critic very much centered on New York, Maine helped shape him.

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    April 1, 2012

    UMaine art museum opening three exhibitions

    The University of Maine Museum of Art opens three exhibitions this week, as well as the latest rotation of the museum's permanent collection.

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    April 1, 2012

    Waiting in the wings: Summer

    As current seasons wrap, theater companies are touting their summer -- and even fall – lineups.

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    April 1, 2012

    BOOK REVIEW: Joys of a hike by two and the art of haiku

    In 1998, Ian Marshall had finished hiking, section by section, the venerable Appalachian Trail. A professor of English and environmental studies at Penn State Altoona, he also was becoming interested in haiku, those little quintessentially Japanese snippets of acute observation. Then he heard about the International Appalachian Trail, the brainchild of former Maine Audubon director […]