Arts & Entertainment

Published
September 4, 2011

Book Review: ‘Buddha’ gives voice to Japan bride fates

Author Julie Otsuka has woven countless stories from individual lives.
Published
September 4, 2011

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

Poet Stuart Kestenbaum of Deer Isle is director of the Haystack School of Crafts, one of the state’s cultural treasures. His poem for this week remembers his father, a Mr. Fix-It who couldn’t. Mr. Fix-It By STUART KESTENBAUM My father never made anything or fixed anything, even though we had the obligatory tools in the […]
Published
September 3, 2011

Dine Out Maine: Zapoteca Mexican restaurant shines like the Baja sun

Zapoteca is a new Mexican restaurant in Portland, occupying a free-standing building where Siano’s Pizzeria used to be. It’s also a tequileria. And a very popular spot at that. I left tequila flights to the aficionados, and sampled a few cocktails. Margaritas came in individual shakers, our server giving the final flourishing tumble and pour. […]
Published
August 28, 2011

Book Review: Real estate gets truly risky in new mystery

“Killer Listing,” the second mystery novel by Camden writer Vicki Doudera, is as good as her first, “A House to Die For,” which was named “Best of 2010” by Suspense Magazine and praised in the New York Times. In “Killer Listing,” Doudera’s main character — the gutsy and charming Darby Farr — makes a return […]
Published
August 28, 2011

Signings, etc.

LOUISE PENNY

Published
August 28, 2011

Book Review: Two views of the man caught up in ‘Catch-22’

A daughter's memoir gives a deeper view than a new biography of Joseph Heller.
Published
August 28, 2011

Author Q & A: A hero found amid searches and rescues

Real stories inspire a second mystery pitting a game warden against Maine evil-doers.
Published
August 28, 2011

Arts Dispatches

PORTLAND MECA graduate joins panel for upcoming symposium Vivian Beer, a graduate of the Maine College of Art and current resident of New Hampshire, will participate in a full-day symposium called Making, hosted on Sept. 10 by the School of Art+Design at Purchase College — SUNY. The event will examine the ways in which the […]
Published
August 28, 2011

Arts Planner

• The Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium in Downeast Maine is in full swing, and there are plenty of opportunities to observe monumental sculptures being made with Maine granite, as well as those that have been completed previously. This year’s symposium features six sculptors: Hitoshi Tanaka of Japan, Jorg Plickat of Germany, John Barlow Hudson of […]
Published
August 28, 2011

Audience Calendar

Art Jason Larkin: “Past Perfect,” photography exhibit, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, $10-$12, under 16 free. 596-6457; farnsworthmuseum.org. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily; until 8 p.m. Wednesday. Through Nov. 27. “Paul Caponigro: The Hidden Presence of Places,” photographs, $10-$12, under 16 free. 596-6457; farnsworthmuseum.org. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily; until 8 p.m. Wednesday. “Drawing […]

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