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February 19, 2012

Bob Keyes: Historical society looks to past, present, future

We can all agree that Portland is a great place to live. We have great art, great theater, great music, great food and mostly great architecture. It’s a city with a lot of history and a city that understands its history in the context of the present day. Two upcoming series at Maine Historical Society […]
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February 19, 2012

Book Review: Novel tells a chilling story set in Alaska

A childless middle-aged couple builds a snowgirl, and the mystery begins.
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February 19, 2012

Signings, Etc.

Maine author Morgan Callan Rogers will be reading from her debut novel “Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea” on Thursday at Longfellow Books. The book is about a girl in small-town Maine whose mother disappears, and how the girl deals with that growing up. WHEN: 7 p.m. Thursday WHERE: Longfellow Books, One Monument […]
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February 19, 2012

Book Review: The divine is in the details of Bailey Island memoir

Some years ago, Janet Freeman Baribeau’s then-10-year-old granddaughter, Jessika Hyde, wrote to her wanting to know more about her early life and the family history to which they both belonged. “That was the beginning of my quest,” says Baribeau, who lives in Brunswick. “A Bailey Island Girl Remembers” is the result. Baribeau’s creation, which she […]
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February 19, 2012

Dine Out Maine: The Rack, Carrabassett Valley

The Rack is a rousing spot for questionable locals and wannabes

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February 19, 2012

Audience Calendar

Art Michael Bell-Smith, lo-fi environments exhibit, Maine College of Art (Institute of Contemporary Art), Portland. 699-5029. Through March 14. Artist lecture, 6 p.m. Saturday Juried student exhibition, University of Southern Maine (Woodbury Campus Center), Portland. usm.maine.edu/gallery. Ends today. Tanja Alexia Hollander: “Are You Really My Friend?”, Hollander’s photographs of her Facebook friends, Portland Museum of […]
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February 19, 2012

Movie Review: Close understatedly steals the show in ‘Albert Nobbs’

Glenn Close is very still in her latest film — quiet, never cracking a smile. Playing a member of the staff of an upper crust Dublin hotel in the late 19th century, the idea was to be invisible. Think of people “in service,” the butlers and maids of “Downton Abbey” or “The Remains of the […]
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February 19, 2012

Art Review: Contrasting styles happily converge at Elizabeth Moss

Deborah Randall rather backed into painting Maine landscapes. She had been making content-oriented contemporary paintings with wildly varied subjects, but her ability to paint was strong, and a trip to Italy forced her not only to look at the landscape but see it in terms of painting. After the trip, Randall continued working in both […]
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February 19, 2012

Book Review: Exploring what it is about friends

As I read Lauren Fox’s new novel, I dog-eared the pages with witty lines, or impressively bitter ones, or ones that made me laugh. Please forgive me, Alfred A. Knopf, for what I’ve done to your book. I hadn’t intended to make origami out of it. Willa, her narrator, describes her parents’ marriage as “another […]
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February 19, 2012

SCENE & HEARD: Hello, goodbye

The Mitchell Institute bids farewell to former executive director Colleen Quint and welcomes a new leader in Meg Baxter.

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