Arts & Entertainment

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April 4, 2010

Art Review: DeGennaro’s ‘Indigo’ show draws skillfully on Christian symbols

Western culture is steeped in Christian art. Modern musical notation was developed in the Catholic Church. Michelangelo worked directly for the pope. For centuries, most of our culture’s greatest art was commissioned by the church. Symbols, subjects, styles, aesthetics and much more that came out of the ecclesiastical tradition are still very much part of […]
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April 4, 2010

Taste & Tell: Sonny’s proves a bold new neighbor in the Old Port

Resplendent inside the defunct Portland Savings Bank, Sonny’s is serving Latin and Southwestern dishes at tables and booths scattered inside a large, high-ceilinged space. Longtime Portlanders will remember the business men in good suits who smoked cigarettes as they drank scotch at the bar of F. Parker Reidy’s. In 2010 at 3-month-old Sonny’s, young folks […]
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April 4, 2010

Book Review: A poignant study of the wandering heart

Now and then, a book appears that is so absorbing, you portion it out to yourself chapter by chapter because you don’t want it to end. “The Secret of Joy” is that kind of book. It’s a novel with heart that explores the lives of 20- and 30-something women characters trying to straighten out their […]
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April 4, 2010

Arts Dispatches

PORTLAND ‘Mary’s Wedding’ opens Portland Stage’s full season With the opening of “Mary’s Wedding” this week, Portland Stage Company announced the lineup for its 2010-11 performance season. The season opens Sept. 28 with a production of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The 39 Steps,” adapted by Patrick Barlow. On Nov. 2, the theater will stage “Last Gas,” a […]
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April 4, 2010

Arts Planner

This week • The Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick on Thursday opens “Methods for Modernism: Form and Color in American Art, 1900-1925.” The exhibition examines American encounters with and participation within European modernism. It opens with a reception at 5:30 p.m. Thursday and will remain on view through July 3. Regular museum hours […]

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April 4, 2010

Keyes: Charting a course in business, life

It’s no secret that the creative economy is humming in Portland. We see evidence of it everywhere, almost literally on every block in and around the peninsula. Whether it’s the artisans at Green Design Furniture on Commercial Street, the designers at Angela Adams on Congress Street or the many printmakers toiling away behind closed doors […]
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April 4, 2010

Gerritsen and Shreve kick off festivities

PORTLAND — The fourth annual Maine Festival of the Book begins in Portland on Friday and continues through April 11. On Saturday, the Abromson Center at the University of Southern Maine hosts a full day of programs. All events are free and do not require a ticket, with the exception of an opening-night program with […]
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April 4, 2010

Book Review: In ‘Solar,’ McEwan leaves us wanting

This time out, Ian McEwan swings entirely too hard, too often at easy targets.
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April 4, 2010

Signings, etc.

Ed Lin
Published
April 4, 2010

Movies: Sparks finds his books easily translate to big screen

If there were a gold medal for good fortune, Nicholas Sparks would be standing atop the podium. The 44-year-old husband and father of five from North Carolina writes tear-jerking romances that have sold more than 50 million copies in more than 30 languages. Six of his 15 books have been made into movies that attract […]

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