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February 20, 2011

Maine Women in the Arts to host exhibit

BIDDEFORD – Maine Women in the Arts hosts “Think Spring!” opening Friday and continuing through April 10 at the North Dam Mill in Biddeford. The show opening coincides with Biddeford downtown’s Fourth Friday Art Walk. The art of MWA members will be on exhibit in the Hallway Gallery for two months. A reception will be […]
Published
February 20, 2011

Money is no object (at all) to studios seeking coveted Oscar Bump

While the value of an Oscar is priceless, the price tag of an Academy Award campaign is dear. Yet the win isn’t about the statuette alone; it’s also about the film’s enhanced earnings potential. This year, the average bill for the Oscar hunt of a multiple nominee is $10 million to $15 million, according to […]
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February 20, 2011

Signings, etc.

HARRISON THORP Former Maine journalist Harrison Thorp will be speaking and signing copies of his new novel “Freak the News: Journalistic High Jinks in a Small Maine Town.” The book is a fictionalized account of a small southern Maine newspaper where the forces of greed and power slant executive decision-making. WHEN: 11 a.m. Saturday WHERE: […]
Published
February 20, 2011

Taste & Tell: They are on their game in the kitchen at Bayside Bowl

The noise of heavy bowling balls smashing into pins is of course a constant at Bayside Bowl, but like the ticking of a clock, it begins to recede from consciousness after a while. In fact, you can completely stop hearing it if your mouth is dealing with some of the specials on the big board […]
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February 20, 2011

UNE installation adds a new, darker layer to Hildreth’s works

The University of New England’s Art Gallery is one of Portland’s best architectural nuggets in no small part because of the way it opens up from the main floor into the surprisingly spacious upper level. Rarely has anyone used the relationship between the two levels as well as Alison Hildreth for her current installation of […]

Published
February 20, 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 through Thursday; 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. Through March 13. “Rackstraw Downes: Onsite Paintings, 1972-2008,” Portland Museum of Art, $4-$10. 10 a.m. to 5 […]
Published
February 13, 2011

Book Review: Salinger laid bare? Just can’t be done

This look at the secretive legend is full of details but short on new insights.
Published
February 13, 2011

Book Review: Murphy as author illuminates Fisher as landmark

Many observers probably shared my initial thought upon picking up Kevin D. Murphy’s attractive new book, “Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill, Maine: Commerce, Culture, and Community on the Eastern Frontier.” Why another examination of one of the state’s most studied individuals? Good heavens, the house that Parson Fisher built in Blue Hill is an historic […]
Published
February 13, 2011

Behind the really bad poetry, a big heart

PORTLAND – Sir William Topaz McGonagall was a lost, wonderful soul. A Scotsman, he lived from 1825 to 1902, and went down in history as one of the worst poets of his time — or any time, for that matter. The American playwright Willy Holtzman has been interested in McGonagall since he spent time in […]
Published
February 13, 2011

Taste & Tell: Falmouth’s version of Hug’s a popular pasta place

FALMOUTH – From crowing little girls in high chairs reveling in a full table’s attention to older couples focused contentedly on each other, the customers of Hug’s Italian Restaurant showed off their pleasure in dinner on a recent Saturday night. The room bustled as the kitchen filled enormous soup-rim plates with linguine, fettuccine, angel hair […]

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