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Published
November 13, 2011

Take heart: A Conversation in Poetry

Edited and Introduced by Wesley McNair, Maine Poet Laureate The late Philip Booth of Castine, one of the most important poets of his generation, was known for his ability to compress meanings into a small space. In today’s poem he discusses the social reality of America in just 10 lines. United States […]
Published
November 13, 2011

Dine Out Maine: The Front Room: Cozy and festive and all about comfort

The Front Room’s recessed doorway straddles the right angle of a residential intersection as if to say, is it time for brunch — or supper? Served daily, both are very popular at this cozy restaurant located on Portland’s Munjoy Hill. It is just the kind of place about which you might suggest going down to […]
Published
November 13, 2011

Book Review: What’s left in the end, dark and light

Author Joan Didion takes stock of treasured memories after her daughter's death in 2005.
Published
November 13, 2011

Movie Review: ‘Immortals’ could use a lot more life

We will never know what it’s like to live forever, but we can at least get a taste of what eternity feels like with “Immortals.” The last time something this big and bloated moved this slowly was during the Ice Age. It’s surprising the movie is so bad. It comes from Mark Canton and Gianni […]
Published
November 6, 2011

Arts Planner

This week • Portland Stage Company hosts the 15th annual From Away festival of international playwriting at 7 p.m. Monday. From Away features the voices of international playwrights, whose work is excerpted and performed in translation. This year’s festival includes readings from the work of Pilar Quintana (Colombia), Josephine Rowe (Australia) and Jeremy Tiang (Singapore), […]

Published
November 6, 2011

Bold stroke by Acorn Productions

Acorn gets serious with its next production, the smoldering Edward Albee classic, 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'
Published
November 6, 2011

Bob Keyes: Mainer stretches campus without borders

It’s too early to say, but Maine-born artist Kate Farrington may well represent the brain drain in reverse. Farrington, a graduate of Bangor High School and Bowdoin College (classes of 1985 and 1989, respectively), is living in Cambridge, Mass., and working toward her doctoral degree. Not at Harvard or MIT or any of the other […]
Published
November 6, 2011

Dine Out Maine: Food’s creative, delicious and abundant at Bintliff’s

Bintliff's American Cafe, which serves brunch daily from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., is no ordinary hash house.
Published
November 6, 2011

Art Review: Wendy Klemperer’s ‘Glimpse’

On Friday, Wendy Klemperer’s seven-part sculpture “Glimpse” was unveiled on the access road to the Jetport. “Glimpse” consists of eight metal sculptures in the form of six deer, one porcupine and a lone wolf. It is the most recent work added to Portland’s public art collection by the Public Art Committee. What did it cost […]
Published
November 6, 2011

Audience Calendar

ART Jason Larkin, “Past Perfect,” photography, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland. 596-6457; farnsworthmuseum.org. Through Nov. 27. “Courting the Muse,” watercolors by Ken Fellows, York Public Library. 363-2818. Through Dec. 30. “The Photographs of Madeleine de Sinety,” Portland Museum of Art. 775-6148; portlandmuseum.org. Through Dec. 31. “Gather Up the Fragments: The Andrews Shaker Collection,” Shaker art and […]

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