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January 2, 2011

Plein-air panorama

That's the signature style of the painter Rackstraw Downes, and it's on view now in a big way at the Portland Museum of Art.
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January 2, 2011

Arts Dispatches

PORTLAND Choral Art Society giving Epiphany concert Saturday The Choral Art Society’s annual Epiphany Celebration will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Immanuel Baptist Church, 156 High St., Portland. The performance is one of the Choral Art Society’s most spiritual annual concerts. The 2011 Epiphany will feature the Camerata Chorus, a select group of […]
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January 2, 2011

Arts Planner

This week • Boston singer-songwriter Antje Duvekot performs at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Village Coffeehouse of New Gloucester. The show opens the season for the coffeehouse. Duvekot has been a darling of the Boston folk scene since 2006, when she released “Big Dream Boulevard.” Her latest release is “The Near Demise of the High […]
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January 2, 2011

Audience Calendar

Art “The Search for Beauty: Whistler and His Time,” drawings and paintings, Colby College (Museum of Art), Waterville. Noon to 4:30 p.m. today. “Sit Down! Chairs from Six Centuries,” chair collection of American and European seating furniture from 1470 to the present, Bowdoin College (Museum of Art), Brunswick, free. 725-3275. 1 to 5 p.m. today; […]
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January 2, 2011

Best-Sellers

FICTION HARDCOVER 1. “The Confession,” by John Grisham (Knopf Doubleday) 2. “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest,” by Stieg Larsson (Knopf Doubleday) 3. “Full Dark, No Stars,” by Stephen King (Simon & Schuster) 4. “Dead or Alive,” by Tom Clancy (Penguin) 5. “Cross Fire,” by James Patterson (Little, Brown) 6. “Diary of a Wimpy […]

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January 2, 2011

Book Review: Bully! for third Roosevelt chronicle

'Colonel Roosevelt' may describe a denouement, but Teddy still heaped his plate full, and with passion.
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January 2, 2011

Book Review: Gunther tale fraught with foreboding from the get-go

From the first sentence of “Red Herring,” you’re instantly caught by a sense of being privy to something secret and pregnant with meaning. Archer Mayor opens this book, his 21st in the Joe Gunther series, with the line: “Doreen Ferenc slipped her nightgown over her head and let it fall the length of her body […]
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January 2, 2011

Life really is a cabaret: ‘Is There Fat in That?’

Beginning Jan. 13, Good Theater presents the one-woman cabaret “Is There Fat in That?” at the St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress St., Portland. Ellen Domingos stars. The show tells Domingos’ story of growing up in Maine, winning a national beauty pageant and becoming a working actress and model in New York City. Through it […]
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January 2, 2011

Author Q&A: Making the best of the worst of times

Charles Dickens' wife of 22 years wasn't the loser he claimed she was when he dumped her, a Bates College professor discovers.
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January 2, 2011

Art Review: Show at City Hall a worthwhile drive into the imagination

An art market bubble burst in the late 1980s. An age of intoxicating indulgence was superseded by a new focus on craftsmanship, effort, skill and material mastery. Painters began using a wider range of materials, such as encaustic, and reinvigorated processes like glazing with oil paints. A high sense of finish came back into vogue, […]

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