Arts & Entertainment

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December 4, 2011

Playing Santa for a serious movie buff?

Films or collections worth giving this year: • “Industrial Light & Magic: The Art of Innovation.” (Abrams Books, $50) Pamela Glintenkamp’s photo-laden coffee-table tome offers an exhaustive survey of the visual effects produced by the house that George Lucas built — and that’s responsible for some of the most iconic screen images of the last […]
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December 4, 2011

Society Notebook: Presenting POP

Shopping for something cool to give this yule? 'Art is the perfect gift,' says one partygoer celebrating the opening of the limited-time-only pop-up gallery in Portland.
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December 4, 2011

Signings, etc.

LUANN YETTER
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December 4, 2011

Book Review: Tales from life of man known for mischief

Michael Moore's authentic voice comes through in a book of humor and candor.
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December 4, 2011

Art Review: Three pairs make for a great hand at ICA

Usually, the art we see gathered in galleries and museums is organized by curators and gallerists rather than the artists themselves. In the 2011 Maine College of Art faculty show, however, each of the three professors selected by juror Patricia Hickson (a curator of contemporary art at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, […]

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December 4, 2011

Book Review: ‘Infernals’ a dark matter, quantum physics morality tale

Although he is lord of the realm, even the devil doesn’t like hell in John Connolly’s “The Infernals,” the young adult fantasy sequel to “The Gates.” Lightly scolding readers who haven’t read the first book, the narrator kindly provides a brief synopsis to ensure everyone is on the same page, so to speak, in the […]
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December 4, 2011

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

In today’s poem, Elizabeth Tibbetts of Hope proves that warmth and love are possible even in a cold Maine winter. COMING HOME By Elizabeth Tibbetts Oh, God, the full-faced moon is smiling at me in his pink sky, and I’m alive, alive(!) and driving home to you and our new refrigerator. A skin of snow […]
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November 27, 2011

Arts Planner

This week • For First Friday Art Walk in Portland, the Victoria Mansion, 109 Danforth St., will extend its hours until 8:30 p.m., and admission after 5 p.m. is $5. There will be holiday refreshments in the Carriage House Museum Shop, which will also host an art exhibition featuring contemporary art by Jackie Reis and […]
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November 27, 2011

Book Review: Assassin’s family drama explains a lot

As we mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War and the amazing cultural and economic changes that followed in its wake, historian Nora Titone’s brilliant new account of the Booth family of actors, “My Thoughts Be Bloody,” proves a perfect starting point. No observer with a pretence to fact would call the family of […]
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November 27, 2011

Audience Calendar

Art Jason Larkin “Past Perfect,” Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland. 596-6457; farnsworthmuseum.org. Ends today. “Madeleine de Sinety: Photographs,” Portland Museum of Art. 775-6148; portlandmuseum.org. Through Dec. 31. “Gather Up the Fragments: The Andrews Shaker Collection,” Shaker furniture, printed works, visual art, tools, textiles and small crafts, Portland Museum of Art. 775-6148; portlandmuseum.org. Through Feb. 5. “Imagination […]

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