Arts & Entertainment

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October 3, 2010

Signings, etc.

DAVID MORINE Conservationist and author David Morine will be discussing and reading from his book “Two Coots in a Canoe.” The book follows Morine and his friend Ramsay Peard, a retired CEO, as the pair embark on a journey of self-discovery, humor and whim by canoeing the Connecticut River. stopping and talking to folks along […]
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October 3, 2010

For Mad Horse, a housewarming by ‘Degrees’

PORTLAND – Mad Horse Theatre opens its 25th season this week in a new home. The company, known for presenting edgy and thought-provoking theater, has become the theater company in residence at Lucid Stage’s new performance space at 29 Baxter Blvd. The season begins with “Six Degrees of Separation,” a John Guare play that explores […]
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October 3, 2010

Art Review: Gallery puts on splendid show of drawing-based artworks

“Drawing: Marks, Traces & Imprints” now on view at the University of Maine-Augusta is the most handsome show I have seen at UMA’s Danforth Gallery — and the quality of the works lives up to the installation. The curators of “Drawing” (MECA illustration department chairman Alex Rheault and Danforth Gallery director Karen Adrienne) visited many […]
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October 3, 2010

Taste & Tell: Local Sprouts Cafe: Fresh, funky and made to order

Local Sprouts Cafe, a business run by Local Sprouts Cooperative, uses local produce and products to cook up stir-fried tofu and jerk chicken, and serves them in an earthy, casual and laid-back atmosphere. In fact, the atmosphere is so laid back that the first time I arrived for dinner on a night I had arranged […]
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October 3, 2010

Author Q&A: Someone’s in the kitchen with Marjorie

Acclaimed chef Melissa Kelly lends a ham -- make that Pork Saltimbocca -- and more for the reissuing of Marjorie's Standish's classic 'Cooking Down East.'

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October 3, 2010

Movies: Moretz steals the show, but she’s still ‘just Chloe’

The 13-year-old star who made her mark in 'Kick-Ass' is now taking a bite out of the vampire genre.
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October 3, 2010

Photographic memories

Maine's photo bender continues into October, with two major photography shows opening at two high-profile exhibition spaces in southern and midcoast Maine. <br /><br /> The Portland Museum of Art just opened "Debating Modern Photography: The Triumph of Group f/64," which focuses on the schism that existed in photography in the 1920s and '30s when a group of California photographers -- Ansel Adams and Edward Weston most famously -- challenged what was then the norm of soft-focus, posed and highly pictorial images.
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October 3, 2010

Society Notebook: Yes she can

Five Maine businesswomen are honored for their contributions to the state's economy.
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October 3, 2010

Books: ‘City by the Sea’ joyfully records the way we were and are

Readers of earlier reviews in the Maine Sunday Telegram may recall my comments of Nov. 8, 2009, on John Moon’s quite respectable Arcadia Press book, “Portland: Then & Now.” One is tempted to say that the author-photographer’s new volume is simply a new incarnation of the former, beautifully reformatted with half color and half black-and-white […]
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October 3, 2010

Film delves into Indian language, culture in Maine

Rockland-based documentary filmmaker Ben Levine will be at the Frontier Cafe in Brunswick on Tuesday to show and talk about his film “Language of America: An Indian Story.” Filmed over a period of six years in native communities throughout New England, the film shows how language is not only a tool for communication but a […]

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