Arts & Entertainment

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September 25, 2011

Book Review: After the Rapture … what?

Tom Perrotta's new novel explores a world that has been turned upside down.
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September 25, 2011

Dine Out Maine: Blair Hill Inn – gracious, elegant without pretension, pomp

Beyond the small town of Greenville, at the southern end of 40-mile-long Moosehead Lake, lies one of Maine’s vast wild areas. The region, three hours’ drive from Portland, draws people who love recreating at or beyond the edge of civilization. Our unforgettable dinner begins high above the lake, at Blair Hill Inn. Built in 1891, […]
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September 25, 2011

Audience Calendar

Art Works by award winning impressionist artist Candasa Edwards Epstein, Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset. maineartgallery.org. “The Photographs of Madeleine de Sinety,” Portland Museum of Art. 775-6148; portlandmuseum.org. Through Dec. 18. “Imagination Takes Shape: Canadian Inuit Art from the Robert and Judith Toll Collection,” Bowdoin College (Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum), Brunswick. 725-3416; bowdoin.edu/arctic-museum. Through Saturday. “Alex Katz: […]
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September 25, 2011

Ground breaking

A glittering expansion of the Colby College Museum of Art will diverge dramatically from the school's ancestral brick architecture to cast its world-class collections in a new -- and natural -- light.
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September 25, 2011

Book Review: New cookbook reflects New England’s past

If you grew up in New England, chances are high that an invisible woman worked in your family kitchen. She traveled in a well-worn book that was never far from your mother’s side. And her name was a familiar one — Fannie Farmer, creator of the “Boston Cooking School Cook Book,” first published in 1896. […]

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September 25, 2011

Bob Keyes: New faces on board as arts commission shifts gears

It is too early in the process to accurately assess what’s going on behind the scenes at the Maine Arts Commission, but big changes are in the works. Donna McNeil, who has directed the state agency since 2008 and worked there since 2003, is no longer executive director. She now has the title of arts […]
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September 25, 2011

Society Notebook: One smart cookie

Sandi Amorello noticed there seemed to be a lot of fellow 'Girl Scout Dropouts' out there -- and a new social outlet was born.
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September 25, 2011

PSO opens 87th season

PORTLAND — The Portland Symphony Orchestra opens its 83rd season with two performances featuring the music of Michael Torke, Beethoven and Brahms, and a guest appearance by pianist Awadagin Pratt. The season opens at 2:30 p.m. Oct. 2 with a concert at Merrill Auditorium under the direction of Robert Moody. The symphony repeats the program […]
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September 25, 2011

Signings, etc.

DAVID LIVINGSTONE SMITH
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September 25, 2011

Author Q & A: Text of kin

Waterville's David O. Solmitz has written a new memoir that mines previously unexplored family history in the context of world calamity.

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