Arts & Entertainment

Published
March 20, 2011

Audience Calendar

Art “Rackstraw Downes: Onsite Paintings, 1972–2008,” Portland Museum of Art, $4-$10. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today. “Little Elegies: The Art of Nineteenth-Century Mourning,” paintings, texts and objects created to assuage grief and memorialize the dead, drawn from the museum’s collections, Colby College (Museum of Art), Waterville. colby.edu. Noon to 5 p.m. today; 10 a.m. […]
Published
March 20, 2011

Society Notebook: A little St. Paddy’s Day double-dipping

It started with a charity plunge into Casco Bay and wound up with a party – and plenty of Guinness – at Ri Ra.
Published
March 20, 2011

Scene & Heard Datebook

IF YOU’RE LOOKING to party, network or support a good cause this week, check out: MONDAY • “Good Wine for a Good Cause,”5 to 7:30 p.m., Grace Restaurant, Portland. Meet more than 20 winemakers, owners and importers and sample their wares. $25 advance/$30 at door. www.cancercommunitycenter.org. WEDNESDAY • Portland Buy Local mixer, 5:30 p.m., Wild […]
Published
March 19, 2011

Dine Out Maine: Step back in time at One Stanley Avenue in Kingfield

KINGFIELD — In the town of Kingfield, the lights of a Victorian inn dazzle and enliven a streetscape of large old homes. Located just across the Carrabassett River from Main Street at its eponymous address, One Stanley Avenue has been serving locals and winter vacationers to nearby Sugarloaf for 39 seasons. I’d visited twice in […]
Published
March 13, 2011

Book Review: New noir thriller fills big gumshoes

P.G. Sturges, son of the legendary Preston, shows he has the right stuff.

Published
March 13, 2011

Author Q & A: Art and soul

Chris Thompson's new book ponders the potential ramifications of a meeting between art innovator Joseph Beuys and the Dalai Lama.
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March 13, 2011

Art review: Art suitable for the fridge … and the PMA

March is Youth Art Month. While the Portland Museum of Art’s “Youth Art Month Exhibition” may be the most interesting of the dozens of exhibitions and events throughout Maine, it also reminds us to take a broader look at the value and effect of art education in Maine. Art is the first real vocational subject […]
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March 13, 2011

Arts Planner

This week • The Midcoast Symphony Orchestra, with guest conductor Graybert Beacham at the podium, presents “Spring the Light Fantastic,” a concert featuring the music of Suk, Debussy, Pierne and Schumann, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Franco-American Heritage Center in Lewiston and at2:30 p.m. March 20 at Orion Performing Arts Center, Topsham. The concerts […]
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March 13, 2011

Book Review: Senate’s ‘The Mosts’ earns its own superlatives

“The Mosts,” an edgy, readable story, gives fresh power to the insight that being young may pass but high school goes on forever. Often, self-image and self-esteem are shaped there, molded by teenage boys focused on sports and girls who accept and reject classmates as ruthlessly as they shop for clothes. Maine novelist Melissa Senate, […]
Published
March 13, 2011

Shepard play treats family with dark humor

PORTLAND – Mad Horse Theatre Company continues its run of Sam Shepard’s play “The Late Henry Moss” through March 27. Performances are at Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd., Portland. “The Late Henry Moss” is the latest installment of Shepard’s cycle of family plays. Two brothers meet up after the death of their estranged alcoholic father. […]

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