Arts & Entertainment

Published
April 10, 2011

Scene & Heard Datebook

IF YOU’RE LOOKING to party, network or support a good cause this week, check out: THURSDAY • Meet Your Legislators, 5 to 7 p.m., Maine Indoor Karting, Scarborough. Join the ScarboroughCommunity Chamber, state Sen. Phil Bartlett and Maine Rep. Amy Fern Volk for an informal meet and greet. Free. www.portlandregion.com. FRIDAY • Bid Against Child […]
Published
April 10, 2011

Broadway Bound Again

You know the face (and the hair) from her high-profile TV commercials. The local-girl-makes-good story continues with hard-working actress Alison Cimmet gearing up for a yearlong stay on the Great White Way.
Published
April 10, 2011

Audience Calendar

Art “The Lay of the Land,” work from the museum’s permanent collection, Portland Museum of Art, $4-$10. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today through Thursday; 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. Through May 8. “European Drawings,” portraits and figure studies to landscapes and architectural studies by various artists, Portland […]
Published
April 9, 2011

Dine Out Maine: Apollo’s Bistro worth the road trip to Waterville

Waterville does not have much of a reputation as a food destination. But one place may change your mind, and that is Apollo’s Bistro. Housed in a historic brick building that used to be the home and office of a cardiologist, the restaurant, open for seven years, occupies the redesigned second-floor former living quarters. The […]
Published
April 3, 2011

Creating together, 6,000 miles apart

PORTLAND — In the further-evidence-that-the-world-is-getting-smaller department, we give you “Dunia Moja,” a print exchange between members of Peregrine Press in Portland and a group of women from the east African island of Zanzibar. The art exhibition, on view through May 28 in the Lewis Gallery at the Portland Public Library, is a collaboration between artists […]

Published
April 3, 2011

Bob Keyes: For Maine arts, a galvanic eruption

Wisdom is the hardest thing to come by in life, and oftentimes wisdom and clarity in situations rife with rancor come only when one steps away and views a situation with the benefit of perspective. That certainly seems to be the case with the lingering controversy of the Maine labor mural held hostage. As far […]
Published
April 3, 2011

Hay! It’s that time again

And this man's grass-based sculptural creation is but one in a wildly diverse lineup of artists and media.
Published
April 3, 2011

Art Dispatches

CAMDEN Art book by Carl Little named finalist for Book of the Year ForeWord Reviews has announced that Carl Little’s “The Art of Dahlov Ipcar,” published by Down East Books, is a finalist for the 2010 Book of the Year Awards in the art category. Also chosen was Andrew Vietze’s “Becoming Teddy Roosevelt: How a […]
Published
April 3, 2011

Signings, etc.

TESS GERRITSEN
Published
April 3, 2011

Author Q & A: The fix is in…you

Maine psychologist Amy Wood has written a new self-help book that, rather than overpromise, actually empowers the reader.

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