Arts & Entertainment

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August 21, 2011

DaPonte String Quartet

It's been (mostly) a classical gas for the members of the Maine-based DSQ, born 20 years ago.
Published
August 21, 2011

Arts Dispatches

MONMOUTH McAndrews named theater’s producing artistic director The Theater at Monmouth has announced the appointment of Dawn McAndrews as the theater’s new producing artistic director, succeeding David Greenham, who is stepping aside in October. McAndrews is an experienced director, producer, educator and dramaturge who has worked at theaters across the country, including Shakespeare Theatre Company, […]
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August 21, 2011

Classical Beat: In the quest for virtuosity, is enjoyment being left behind?

A friend brought to my attention a recent article in the New York Times by Anthony Tommasini titled “Virtuosos Becoming a Dime a Dozen.” One of the new crop of pianists featured in the article was Kiril Gerstein, who played the Liszt B-minor Piano Sonata last season at Merrill Auditorium under the auspices of Portland […]
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August 21, 2011

Audience Calendar

Art Jason Larkin “Past Perfect,” photography exhibit, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, $10-$12, under 16 free. 596-6457. Daily 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; until 8 p.m. Wednesday. “Second Show,” featuring the work of 20 member artists, Sebascodegan Artists Cooperative Gallery, Harpswell. 371-2015. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Through Aug. 31. “Maine to France,” pastels, watercolors […]
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August 21, 2011

Book Review: Language and fear no match for youth

A Ghanaian boy rises above London's projects in Stephen Kelman's debut.

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August 21, 2011

Book Review: Psychopath, home fixer duel in ‘Knockdown’

It’s mystery No. 14 in Sarah Graves’ “A Home Repair is Homicide” series, and fans of the prolific Eastport writer will find surprises in “Knockdown.” For one, it’s darker than the usual Graves cozy in which kidnappings and murder happen with no graphic description of blood and gore. By contrast, “Knockdown” introduces a weird young […]
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August 21, 2011

Signings, etc.

JOSEPH DANE
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August 21, 2011

Society Notebook: Good Clean Fun

Leaders in environmental technology in Maine gather for a Midsummer Mixer.
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August 21, 2011

Movie Review: This ‘Conan’ could use a few grins

Take away much of the myth, most of the sorcery and all of the humor of the 1982 John Milius-Arnold Schwarzenegger version of the sword and sorcery epic “Conan the Barbarian,” and you’ve got an idea what the new “Conan” is like. It has a better actor as star — Jason Momoa (“North Shore,” “Game […]
Published
August 21, 2011

Movie Review: ‘Sarah’s Key’ a riveting World War II thriller

Here’s an unconventional French Holocaust drama, a film that plays as a guilty remembrance of a dark corner of French history tucked into a ticking-clock thriller. “Sarah’s Key” stars Kristin Scott Thomas as Julia, a modern-day American journalist investigating the mass deportation of Jews from the Marais neighborhood of Paris in 1942. Some 13,000 French […]

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