Arts Review
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PublishedNovember 5, 2023
A poet offers an intimate, meandering picture of rural life in Maine
Baron Wormser's memoir, 'The Road Washes Out in Spring,' was reissued in March. Its sharply observed, compassionate vignettes of his own off-the-grid life and the lives of those around him endure.
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PublishedNovember 5, 2023
A passionate argument for the necessity of functioning infrastructure
Deb Chachra's 'How Infrastructure Works' is a perfectly timed entreaty to rethink the systems that make modern life possible.
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PublishedNovember 5, 2023
Art review: Artistic expressions of interconnectedness offer glimmers of hope in trying times
Two Portland shows – 'Asters & Goldenrod' and 'Liveable Worlds' – explore the symbiotic ties between artists and the natural world.
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PublishedOctober 30, 2023
Theater review: Sale of a Maine family camp at center of new comedy
Portland writer Monica Wood's 'Saint Dad' is in its premiere run at Portland Stage.
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PublishedOctober 29, 2023
A stirring guide to the great Dutch painters
In 'The Upside-Down World,' Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser combines biography, art criticism and touches of memoir.
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PublishedOctober 29, 2023
‘Anatomy of a Fall’ is a twisty and icily cerebral thriller
Sandra Hüller delivers a naturalistic tour de force of spiky confidence and lurking maternal guilt in this whodunit/marital drama.
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PublishedOctober 29, 2023
‘Making Maine’ gives a decidedly unsentimental picture of the nascent state
Scoundrels, smugglers and their ilk helped to make Maine, according to a new history of the War of 1812.
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PublishedOctober 23, 2023
Theater review: The challenges of modern motherhood front and center in ‘Paint Night’
Sisterhood rules in Carey Crim's latest work, which is having its world premiere at The Public in Lewiston.
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PublishedOctober 22, 2023
Two children’s books make the case for new types of heroines
To the smart, spunky protagonists in the latest books by local writers Gail Donovan and Megan Frazer Blakemore, we say, you go, girls!
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PublishedOctober 22, 2023
Art review: See work by Alison Hildreth ranging from her early career to still wet
Speedwell Projects and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art both have shows up that celebrate the artist's ongoing career.
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