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June 6, 2010

Art review: Saco/Biddeford biennial anything but run of the mill

The “Mill-ennial” is a juried exhibition for artists connected to the Saco, Biddeford and Old Orchard Beach area. The organizers hope this will be a continuing biennial: This first incarnation makes a great case that the project will not only survive, but thrive. The juror for the Mill-ennial was Saco’s own Fred Lynch: a painter […]
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June 6, 2010

Books Q & A: Portrait of the artist

Carl Little's retrospective on beloved Maine painter Dahlov Ipcar offers insight into a long, prolific career -- and an ever-youthful, imaginative spirit.
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June 6, 2010

Book review: Get away from it all with trip to ‘Sumner Island’

Reviewers inclined to pigeonhole novels with words like “mystery” or “romance” will have a tough time pegging “Sumner Island.” Michael Cormier’s first novel is a murder mystery, to be sure. It’s also a romance and a fantasy in which modern-day characters mingle and fall in love with spirits of the dead. Whatever you choose to […]
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June 6, 2010

2010 Audience Readers’ Poll

Roll with the Poll for best places to go
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June 6, 2010

A look back at a painterly career

The Bates College Museum of Art examines the body of work of Joseph Nicoletti, old-school artist.

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June 6, 2010

Arts Dispatches

PORTLAND Portland painter chosen Monhegan resident artist Christopher Keister, a painter from Portland, has been named the 2010 Monhegan Island artist-in-residence by the Monhegan Artists’ Residency Corporation. Keister is a formalist painter with abstract tendencies. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2007. His work has been featured in the Center for […]
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June 6, 2010

Arts Planner

Maine’s summer theater season begins anew this week, as both Ogunquit Playhouse and Maine State Music Theatre in Brunswick draw the curtain beginning Wednesday night. • Ogunquit opens with star power. Emmy Award-winning TV star, celebrity stylist, author and fashion designer Carson Kressley makes his theater debut in the musical “The Drowsy Chaperone.” Kressley, who has […]
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June 6, 2010

Scene & Heard: Helping handbags

Funds raised at Purses with Purpose go to the Ronald McDonald House.
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June 6, 2010

Katherine Heigl on ‘Grey’s,’ movies, motherhood

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Katherine Heigl looked like she was about to cry. Her eyes were watering, and her beautiful face contorted as if in pain. For a moment, one might have thought that she was re-living that mea culpa cover story in a national magazine in April, in which she apologized to the public […]
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June 6, 2010

Keyes: Old Port Festival is, at the end of the day, about the music

It might seem that after 30-plus years, the Old Port Festival would run itself. If only that were true. In fact, the annual festival — set for a week from today — continues to be a lot of work for the organization that presents it year after year, Portland’s Downtown District. There are ever-evolving details […]

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