Arts & Entertainment

Published
October 30, 2011

Author Q & A: Sweet

Isle au Haut's Kate Shaffer writes about her move from cook to chocolatier – recipes included – in a new book.
Published
October 30, 2011

Society Notebook: Watching their ghoulish figures

Ghoulwill Ball-goers admire one another's fiendishly clever costumes.
Published
October 30, 2011

Audience Calendar

Art Jason Larkin: “Past Perfect,” photography, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland. 596-6457; farnsworthmuseum.org. Through Nov. 27. “Diversity,” multi-artist show, blown glass, acrylic, oil and encaustic paintings, ceramic ware and pottery, Richard Boyd Gallery, Peaks Island. 712-1097. “The Photographs of Madeleine de Sinety,” Portland Museum of Art. 775-6148; portlandmuseum.org. Through Dec. 31. “Gather Up the Fragments: The […]
Published
October 23, 2011

Book Review: In which true love lies betwixt the lines

It's not 'Middlesex' redux, but 'Marriage Plot' isn't chopped liver, either.
Published
October 23, 2011

Society Notebook: Indies rock

Independent business owners gather for a party celebrating what makes Portland ... Portland.

Published
October 23, 2011

Signings, etc.: Mary Jo McConahay

Author Mary Jo McConahay will speak about her book, “Maya Roads,” in a special Monday edition of the Portland Public Library’s Brown Bag Lecture Series. In the book, McConahay draws on her three decades of traveling and living in Central America to chronicle the people, the politics and the nature of the Central American rain […]
Published
October 23, 2011

Book Review: ‘Gale’ explores family tragedy and mystery

“August Gale: A Father and Daughter’s Journey Into the Storm” by Barbara Walsh reads like a suspense-filled work of fiction. Instead, it’s a gripping family saga in which Walsh connects the dots between a long-ago storm at sea and her grandfather’s abandonment of her father. Walsh is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who lives in Winthrop. […]
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October 23, 2011

Jonathan Edwards: A fine balance

The singer/songwriter's life and career are harmonizing nicely.
Published
October 23, 2011

Arts Dispatches

AUGUSTA Four Maine artists win fellowship awards The Maine Arts Commission has announced recipients of the 2012 Artists’ Fellowship Awards, one of the nation’s largest awards for individual artists made by a state arts agency. The four recipients each will receive $13,000. This year’s fellows are Allen Lowe of South Portland (performing/media arts), Claire Guyton […]
Published
October 23, 2011

Arts Planner

With the theater season in full swing, here are some options that may be less obvious: • Farmers and artists will perform an original play about local agriculture and the future of small family farms Thursday through Oct. 30 at Camp Ketcha, 336 Black Point Road, Scarborough. Created by Jennie Hahn of Thomaston, “Of Farms […]

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