Arts & Entertainment

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February 6, 2011

Book review: South Portland cop’s ‘Promise’ a riveting action book

” ‘Are you going to catch them?’ she said. “I made the promise without hesitation or even a hint of uncertainty. ‘Yes, I told Alex. I’m going to catch those men so they can’t do this to anyone else.’ “That night, as I drove home to tuck my own kids in bed, my mind kept […]
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February 6, 2011

Book review: A weird, poignant swamp struggle

Karen Russell presents a moving tale of a family coping with a death.
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February 6, 2011

Bob Keyes: A career takes off at a gallop

BRISTOL – A stunning winter day reveals itself outside Sarah Lynn Richards’ loft studio. The mid-morning sun masks the biting cold and coats the white landscape in a sheet of light. Richards peers out across a snow-covered field that is smoothed into a slight arc by the wind but otherwise unblemished. A stand of trees […]
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February 6, 2011

Arts Dispatches

DEER ISLE Haystack School of Crafts receives $125,000 arts grant Haystack Mountain School of Crafts has received $125,000 from the Save America’s Treasures program, made in collaboration with the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The […]
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February 6, 2011

Arts Planner

This week • National Poetry Series winner Erika Meitner will read and sign copies of her books at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in The Landing in the University of Maine at Farmington’s Olsen Student Center. The event is free as part of the university’s visiting writers series. Recognized as “the new voice of intelligent and emotional […]

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February 6, 2011

Society Notebook: Rooting for green bay

The Friends of Casco Bay group gathers to celebrate successes and thank its volunteers.
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February 6, 2011

Author Q&A: Beyond horrible

Some of Elliott Epstein's book recalling a notorious Maine murder may be hard to read, but in its larger context of child abuse, it's important and timely.
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February 6, 2011

Classical Beat: Book offers fascinating look at Mahler after 100 years

I just received a review copy of Norman Lebrecht’s new book “Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World” (Pantheon Books, 2010), which prompted some thoughts about the composer whose “Resurrection” Symphony (No. 2) was recently given a rousing performance by the Portland Symphony Orchestra and the Choral Art Society. Lebrecht is […]
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February 6, 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; poetry reading with local poets at 11 a.m., 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. Through March 13. “Rackstraw Downes: Onsite Paintings, 1972 — […]
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February 6, 2011

Taste & Tell: District’s dinners are no-risk, straightforward crowd pleasers

District sits inside a building that has housed several popular night spots. A radical renovation has polished its rooms to a high gloss, and certainly the decor adds to the enjoyment of a meal or drink. With two floors and a railed opening on the second floor overlooking the bar, black-upholstered booths, red-brown chairs and […]

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