Arts & Entertainment

Published
April 25, 2010

By choosing diverse film personas, Pierce Brosnan moves beyond Bond

The leading man who wanted to be a character actor has appeared in five films this year.
Published
April 25, 2010

Art Review: Identity-oriented art asserts itself well at galleries

When we talk about our own culture, we talk about how we are distinct from anyone else. What we cringe at, however, is culture that goes beyond the simple pride of identity to make insidiously greater claims. Nazi and Soviet art, for example, pushed past indigenous culture to enlist themselves in propaganda wars. Yet certainly, […]
Published
April 25, 2010

Maine Photography Show 2010

Winners in the 2010 Maine Photography Show were announced at the exhibition’s opening April 16 at the Boothbay Region Art Foundation gallery, 1 Townsend Ave., Boothbay Harbor. There were three winners in each of four categories, as well as a best-of-show winner and a Committee Choice Award winner. Cash prizes of $100, $75 and $50 […]
Published
April 25, 2010

Movies: Strong performance helps lift ‘The Losers’

So now we see why Chris Evans, the onetime Johnny Storm of “The Fantastic Four,” was selected to play Captain America in the upcoming “Avengers” comic book epic: “The Losers” was his audition. Evans steals “The Losers,” another comic-book adaptation about a team of “black ops” agents out for revenge on the fellow who betrayed […]
Published
April 25, 2010

Time for 10 artists to show and sell ’10 x 10′ works

PORTLAND – The 21st annual “10 x 10” show and sale will be open 5 to 8 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at June Fitzpatrick Gallery at Maine College of Art, 522 Congress St. It’s a seminal spring event in the Portland art community, with lines forming long before the gallery […]

Published
April 25, 2010

Scene & Heard Datebook

IF YOU’RE LOOKING to party, network or support a good cause this week, check out: TUESDAY DOWNEAST PRIDE ALLIANCE, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Nosh, Portland. Enjoy a cash bar and network with members of the gay and gay-friendly business community. Free. www.depabusiness.com. WEDNESDAY BUSINESS AFTER 5, 5 to 7 p.m., Morong Falmouth. Sip drinks and […]
Published
April 18, 2010

Book Review: A novel of modern manners, well told

Sebastian Faulks mixes a keen reporter's eye with entertaining intelligence.
Published
April 18, 2010

Book Review: Want an original story line? Meet the Beevers

“Shark Girls” is an intriguing novel about two Hawaii-born women, their lives bound together by a shark attack that amputates a child’s leg. Inspired by an actual shark attack resulting in a boy’s death 52 years ago, author Jaimee Wriston Colbert uses the incident as a jumping-off point in a tale that weaves Hawaiian shark […]
Published
April 18, 2010

Classical Beat: Hooked on cajones, the box with a beat

I wonder if percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie, who appeared recently with the Portland Symphony Orchestra, ever plays the cajon? Judging from her fantastic work on the snare drum, it might have been more interesting than the neo-Romantic concerto for marimba that followed her 12-tone snare-drum concert-piece. The marimba, sniffs musicologist Percy Scholes, is an instrument […]
Published
April 18, 2010

Arts Dispatches

AUGUSTA Maine authors earn awards for children’s literature Five Maine authors and illustrators were honored Thursday at a children’s literature conference in Augusta. The Lupine Awards for outstanding contributions to Maine literature for young people and the Katahdin Lifetime Achievement Award were presented at the Reading Round Up Conference at the Augusta Civic Center. Since […]

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