Arts & Entertainment

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March 18, 2012

Signings, etc.

Elizabeth Peavey and Marguerite Robichaux will be at the Portland Public Library Wednesday to talk about their new book "Glorious Slow Going: Maine Stories of Art, Adventure and Friendship."
Published
March 18, 2012

TAKE HEART: A Conversation in Poetry

Today's seasonal poem by Stuart Kestenbaum of Deer Isle grew out of tapping maple trees and boiling sap on his stovetop.
Published
March 18, 2012

The Saturday Sessions

Thanks to a generous bequest, the Portland Conservatory of Music has launched a new teaching program aimed at the region's best and brightest young musicians.
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March 18, 2012

MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Jeff’ takes relationship comedy to deeper, better place

"Jeff, Who Lives at Home" could be just another quirky, abrasive and unconventional relationship comedy, but it's much better than that.
Published
March 11, 2012

Scene & Heard: Give ’em the works

The Cancer Community Center finds art to be a successful addition to its annual auction – which continues online.

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March 11, 2012

Author Q&A: Sax and drugs and rock ‘n’ roll

What's in a name? Reporter Bob Keyes finds out when he interviews legendary saxophonist Bobby Keys about the new book, 'Every Night's a Saturday Night.'
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March 11, 2012

Audience Calendar

Art “Charles Gatewood’s Wall Street,” rare vintage and contemporary photographs, River Tree Arts, Kennebunk. 967-9120. Through Saturday. “In a State of Becoming,” Inuit Art from the collection of Rabbi Harry Sky, Bowdoin College (Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum), Brunswick. bowdoin.edu/arctic-musem. Through April 14. “Painters, Players and Poets,” “Branching Out: Water” and Gardiner area artists, Waterfall Arts, Belfast. […]
Published
March 11, 2012

TAKE HEART: A Conversation in Poetry

From May 3-6, the May Sarton Centennial will be held in the town of York, where Sarton, one of Maine’s most important authors, lived in her “house by the sea.” The centennial celebration will include music, commentaries, poetry readings and even a clambake. Details are available at the Sarton 100 website, maysarton100.org. In preparation for […]
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March 11, 2012

CLASSICAL BEAT: The clarinet takes center stage, again

They say that if a newspaper reporter is doing his job, the only person at his funeral will be his mother. My column and review on Benny Goodman and his impersonator, Dave Bennett, generated three types of mail: People who loved the concert and enjoyed reliving it in print, those who thought I was unkind […]
Published
March 11, 2012

ART REVIEW: There’s much to see in this strange little exhibit of ‘Portraits’

'Portraits" at Addison Woolley Gallery in Portland is an unusually challenging show. There is much to see and even more to think about.

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