Arts & Entertainment

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December 26, 2010

Best-Sellers

FICTION HARDCOVER 1. “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth,” by Jeff Kinney (Abrams) 2. “The Confession,” by John Grisham (Knopf Doubleday) 3. “Learning to Ski with Mr. Magee,” by Chris Van Dusen (Chronicle Books) 4. “Full Dark, No Stars,” by Stephen King (Simon & Schuster) 5. “Dead or Alive,” by Tom Clancy (Penguin […]
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December 26, 2010

Book Review: Fascinating voyage through our neighbor to the east

Simon Winchester certainly knows how to make the most of uncomfortable predicaments. Whether it is a dicey week on Greenland’s icy mountains as a geology student at Oxford University, or a spell in an Argentine jail on espionage charges during the Falklands War, he turns the experience into a great account. That account is realized […]
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December 26, 2010

Taste & Tell: Hot Suppa! lives up to its name by adding evening meals

Hot Suppa! is the neighborhood spot your neighborhood needs — because everyone should enjoy a good dinner that won’t put you back more than, say, $15 for a catfish fillet. This spot, with its exposed brick and ranks of booths, made its start with breakfast served daily, fine-tuning its kitchen for years until making the […]
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December 26, 2010

Art Review: One artist’s unflinching Katrina story

What would happen if you lost everything? When we were bringing toys to the fire station last week, one of my young sons asked whom they were for. For kids whose families had “lost everything in fires and hurricanes” answered my other son. While I filled in more of the truth about the Christmas gift […]
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December 26, 2010

Signings, etc.

KATE BRAESTRUP

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December 26, 2010

The year Maine went GAGA

A couple of pop megastars came calling, several Mainers made their way across the national cultural stage, and there was no shortage of news of note on the state's arts and entertainment front.
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December 26, 2010

Author Q&A: This just in

A reporter once herself, Rosemary Herbert makes a journalist the main character in her first mystery, the newly published 'Front Page Teaser.'
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December 26, 2010

Book Review: Two men, same name, both killed – no fluke

Alan Glynn's 'Winterland' reveals powerful forces behind the seemingly unrelated deaths.
Published
December 19, 2010

Bob Keyes: Thanks to one man’s vision, the doctorate is in the house

PORTLAND – Plenty of people along the way have doubted George Smith and his vision and ambition to create the first-ever doctoral program in philosophy and art theory. But Smith, a Portland resident and a former dean at Maine College of Art, proved the doubters wrong earlier this month. That’s when the Board of Trustees […]
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December 19, 2010

Quick Hit

The Portland Museum of Art has opened a new exhibition of landscape painting by one-time Maine painter Rackstraw Downes. Downes will discuss his work Jan. 6 at Holiday Inn by the Bay. For details and information, call the museum at 775-6148 or visit www.portlandmuseum.org.

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