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March 13, 2011

Society Notebook: Best in Shows

The 2011 Portland Flower Show wins high praise -- and if you haven't yet seen it, there's still time today.
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March 13, 2011

Signings, etc.

CAITLIN SHETTERLY Portland author Caitlin Shetterly will discuss her memoir “Made for You and Me: Going West, Going Broke, Finding Home” (Hyperion) Wednesday as part of the Portland Public Library’s Brown Bag Lecture series. Shetterly’s book is about how she and her husband moved to California in 2008 as newlyweds to seek economic opportunities, only […]
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March 13, 2011

Dine Out Maine: Solo Bistro takes sophistication to an innovative level

BATH – Do you go out of your way to seek excellent cuisine? So do I. When you travel, do you spend a good chunk of your time determining where and how you’ll get good local food? Me too. Do you spend your weekends butchering a pig or fermenting libations? You lost me there. All […]
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March 13, 2011

Bob Keyes: Transplant blossoming in Manhattan

NEW YORK – It’s a mild late-winter morning as Nancy Margolis steps from the cab on a busy street in Chelsea. She pays her fare and walks up a short flight of stairs to begin another day doing what she loves most. It’s been almost 20 years since Margolis traded her art gallery space on […]
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March 13, 2011

Life in art

That Jerry Day Mason, 91, is still painting surprises no one who knows her.

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March 13, 2011

Audience Calendar

Art “Weston: Leaves of Grass,” Edward Weston photographs, Portland Museum of Art, $4-$10, free under age 6. 775-6148. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today. Ends today. “Rackstraw Downes: Onsite Paintings, 1972-2008,” 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. […]
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March 13, 2011

Scene and Heard Datebook

IF YOU’RE LOOKING to party, network or support a good cause this week, check out: TUESDAY • Local Foods Networking Breakfast, 8 a.m., Local Sprouts Cafe, Portland. Join others interested in local food and farms for a casual breakfast of locally grown food. Free/Charge for breakfast items. jeremyrain@gmail.com. WEDNESDAY • Aucocisco Galleries Reception, 5 to […]
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March 13, 2011

Arts Dispatches

DAMARISCOTTA Submissions wanted for spring River Arts exhibition River Arts seeks submissions for its fine crafts exhibition, scheduled to open May 6 at River Arts Gallery II on Route 1. Noted Maine art critic Carl Little will juror the show. Submissions will be taken digitally until March 31. Little is a regular contributor to Ornament […]
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March 13, 2011

At 87, Nason’s still a hard worker

PORTLAND — Robert Nason always starts his story at the beginning. “I was born in 1923 to a middle-class family in a middle-class neighborhood,” says the grizzled old man. “The first world war had really just ended, and by the time I was in high school, the Depression was just letting up. But by then, […]
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March 6, 2011

Classical Beat: Bruckner’s quirks colored his work

When the French/Polish painter Balthus was asked to write an introduction to an exhibit catalog, he responded: “Balthus is an artist about whom nothing is known. Now let’s look at the paintings.” The same may be said about Austrian composer Anton Bruckner (1824-1896), whose Symphony No. 4 (“Romantic”) will be performed by the Portland Symphony […]

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