Arts & Entertainment

Published
March 27, 2011

2011 Festival of the Book

This year's gathering at USM is, first, and foremost, about face time – "a chance to interact" for writers and readers.
Published
March 27, 2011

Audience Calendar

Art “Little Elegies: The Art of Nineteenth-Century Mourning,” paintings, texts, and objects created to assuage grief, memorialize the dead, and remind viewers of religious truths drawn from the museum’s collections, Colby College (Museum of Art), Waterville. www.colby.edu. Noon to 5 p.m. today; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. “The Lay of the Land,” […]
Published
March 27, 2011

Movies: There really was a ‘Lincoln Lawyer’

WASHINGTON – Michael Connelly was a cops reporter for about a dozen years, most notably with the Los Angeles Times. He has sold 43 million of his 23 crime-based novels around the world since hanging up his press card nearly 20 years ago. Still, he has found some journalistic habits hard to break, such as […]
Published
March 27, 2011

Society Notebook: Women’s day

An Emerge Maine benefit aims to help the group dedicated to preparing women to seek a greater role in public life.
Published
March 27, 2011

Books: Yankee finds a niche in the Wild West

Christopher Corbett seems like an unlikely candidate to be a writer of Old West stories. He grew up in Waterville, and despite traveling widely, has spent most of his life entrenched in the Northeast. But Corbett is a journalist, and he has always had a nose for a good story. In Americana lore, there is […]

Published
March 27, 2011

Scene & Heard Datebook

WEDNESDAY • Blue Wrap Project Runway, 6 p.m., Portland Museum of Art, Portland. Enjoy music, drinks and food and watch a fashion show that reuses a disposable hospital product. Proceeds benefit Partners for World Health. $50. No tickets at door. 885-1011. FRIDAY • 29th Annual Spring for the Kids Auction, 5 p.m., Boys and Girls […]
Published
March 26, 2011

Dining Out Maine: With casual airs, Caiola’s all about feeling at home

It’s 8:30 Wednesday night, and Caiola’s is hopping. Adults of all ages populate a front dining room divided by a low wall. Rustic wood furnishings, earthy colors, mismatched antique ceiling fixtures and work by local artists give the space a relaxed atmosphere. Walk straight through the jarringly bright kitchen and you arrive at a similarly […]
Published
March 20, 2011

Book Review: Powerful Dubus is a master of details

A memoir based on his gritty, mill-town childhood elevates this Andre Dubus.
Published
March 20, 2011

Book Review: History of Deering melds people, places

Once upon a time, Portland was the Chewing Gum Capital of the World. In 1909, the Presumpscot River was rated by the U.S. Geological Survey as the “best utilized river in the country” for the 17 dams along its 27-mile course. And, William David Barry adds, “By the 1930s, it was also one of America’s […]
Published
March 20, 2011

Bob Keyes: It’s the best of times, it’s the worst of times

PORTLAND — With the eyes of the theater world trained on the never-ending saga of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” and its long-delayed Broadway opening, the big question in Portland is whether the community can support all the theater that’s available on any given weekend. On one measurable level, we now know that the answer […]

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