Arts & Entertainment

Published
January 1, 2012

Retired vehicles ride again in new photo show

South Portland photographer Jonathan M. Dunitz exhibits a series of photographs of old and abandoned vehicles in a show titled “Forgotten Transport,” opening Friday at Blue, 605A Congress St., Portland. Dunitz portrays the vehicles in full color, while desaturating the background to appear black and white. The process gives the vehicles a ghost-like appearance. Dunitz […]
Published
January 1, 2012

Movies: Streep becomes ‘Iron Lady’ for latest role

NEW YORK – Meryl Streep shuffles down a London street wearing a kerchief, a drab beige overcoat and enough prosthetic wrinkles to pass as an octogenarian in the opening scene of her new movie about former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, “The Iron Lady.” For Streep, shooting the sequence provided a jarring taste of a […]
Published
January 1, 2012

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

In our first poem of the new year, Thomas Moore of Brooksville looks back on the risks he and his friends once took as they glided over the ice holding ropes behind a Plymouth in the dark. Note how Moore imitates the dangers he describes with long sentences that turn sharply at line breaks and […]
Published
January 1, 2012

Ten from ’11

We looked in the cultural rear-view mirror and selected Maine's top A&E stories of 2011.
Published
January 1, 2012

Art Review: ‘Muralgate’ topped unforgettable year in Maine art

A critical look back at Maine art in 2011 and a view of 2012.

Published
December 25, 2011

2011: Year of pleasant surprises

Will Farrell gets serious, Martin Scorsese does a kids' movie, and Woody Allen? Still funny.
Published
December 25, 2011

Arts Planner

• The Portland Public Library will open “Around the House,” an art show by the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, on Jan. 6. The exhibition features 17 contemporary Maine photographers, and will be on view through Jan. 28 in the Lewis Gallery on the Lower Level of the Main Library on Congress Street. Organized by […]
Published
December 25, 2011

Audience Calendar

ART “The Hidden Presence of Places,” photography by Paul Caponigro, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland. 596-6457; farnsworthmuseum.org. Through Jan. 5. “Focus on India,” photographs by Lawrence Elbroch, Red Door Pottery Studio and Gallery Shop, Kittery. 439-5671. Through Feb. 1. “Courting the Muse,” watercolors by Ken Fellows, York Public Library. 363-2818. “The Global Lens,” photography by Dominic […]
Published
December 25, 2011

Television: Charlie to Oprah, TV’s dramatic year

Coming and going … going and coming: Our own lives can change dramatically, but why are we surprised when the lives of the rich and famous do? Maybe because those lives can suddenly turn into volcanic eruptions of booze and drugs, those verbal emissions best described as insane or, more charitably, unbalanced. We watch in […]
Published
December 25, 2011

Crowd pleasers

The holiday season has been pure magic for area arts organizations, with the likes of Portland Stage and the PSO filling seats and reaping a bonanza that bodes well for 2012.

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