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    February 28, 2010

    Academy Awards presenters getting younger with each passing day

    As Oscar night draws closer, the average age of the announced presenters is descending by the day. Show producers, clearly attempting to woo potential teenage watchers, recently announced Miley Cyrus, Zac Efron, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner would appear on the program (Cyrus and Efron for the second time, Stewart and Lautner for the first). […]

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    February 28, 2010

    Art teachers create instructive show of their own

    When the subject in school is literature, we don’t give our kids paper and pens and tell them to write a novel. Yet in art class, we often stick brushes in their hands and tell them to paint pictures. Shouldn’t visual education be more than self-expression? An exhibition organized by the Maine Art Educators Association […]

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    February 28, 2010

    Arts Planner

    This week • Beginning Friday, the Addison Woolley Gallery presents ”Ghana: An African Portrait Revisited,” an exhibition of photography from the sub-Saharan country. The show opens with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday as part of the Portland First Friday Art Walk. The exhibition will remain on view through March 26. The gallery […]

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    February 28, 2010

    scene & heard datebook

    IF YOU’RE LOOKING to party and network this week, check out:   WEDNESDAY LEAGUE OF YOUNG VOTERS REIGNITE, 6:30-8:30 p.m., North Star Music Cafe, Portland. The mixer will give members and interested voters a chance to hear about and shape the organizations plans for 2010.   THURSDAY GLENN RENELL OPENING RECEPTION, 5-7 p.m., Greenhut Galleries, […]

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    February 28, 2010

    Fascinating, little-known tale stars star-crossed Mainers

    You might imagine that a book about a battle waged on the Niagara peninsula in June 1813 would have little to do with Maine or Mainers. But then — as Canadian journalist James Elliott proves in his exciting and insightful new book, ”Strange Fatality: The Battle of Stoney Creek, 1813” — you’d be wrong. Stoney Creek […]

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  • Published
    February 28, 2010

    Giving cancer the cold shoulder

    Shaw's employees – including one very determined penguin – raise nearly $40,000 in a polar dip.

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    February 28, 2010

    Hill country

    Author Joe Hill is back with a new tale that treads the happily familiar territory of black humor, horror and page-turning suspense.

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    February 28, 2010

    Society Notebook: Meet the neighbors

    A mixer for South Portland's Knightville section is a resounding success, despite a blustery storm outside.

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    February 28, 2010

    Signings, etc.

    GERRY BOYLE

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    February 28, 2010

    Snow Squall back in action in South Portland

    SOUTH PORTLAND – A longtime favorite brunch spot, Snow Squall Restaurant reopened after a four- or five-year hiatus last fall in its newly renovated former space. Count on good pork loin with super-sweet, spiced apple compote, or nicely cooked salmon on creamy quinoa. Crispy shrimp ravioli is also on the menu, though why it’s there […]