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    September 29, 2013

    Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

    Richard Blanco of Bethel read his poem “One Today” at the second inauguration of President Obama. Here, he explores the connections between his hands and the hands of his father. My Father, My Hands By Richard Blanco My father gave me these hands, fingers inch-wide and muscular like his, the same folds of skin like […]

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    September 29, 2013
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    Dine Out Maine: A food critic dishes on life as an undercover gastronome

    Over the last couple of years that I have reviewed restaurants for Dine Out Maine, I’ve fielded some of the same questions repeatedly. I thought I’d take a portion of this column to answer them. I follow with a roundup of some of my favorite dishes in the last year. Does the restaurant staff know […]

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    September 29, 2013

    Society Notebook: A lift for McAuley Residence

    The Soar into Silver event raises more than $50,000 for the transitional housing program.

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    September 29, 2013

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    September 29, 2013

    Book review: Familiar figures far from ordinary

    Heartache, joy, suffering and beauty add power to a simple story.

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    September 29, 2013

    Film fest, gallery to spotlight Fiore

    ROCKLAND — The Camden International Film Festival will show the film “Joseph Fiore – The Nature of the Artist” at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the Strand Theatre in Rockland. An exclusive exhibit of Fiore’s work will be on display during the festival at Orlando Johnson’s gallery, Somewhere on Winter Street, in Rockland. The exhibit offers […]

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    September 29, 2013

    Book review: Heeere’s Danny!

    Stephen King's sequel to 'The Shining' focuses on the now-grown son of mad Jack Torrance, with mixed results.

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    September 29, 2013

    Classical Beat: Romantic Ripper to enact dark deeds in chilling ballet

    A ballet about Jack the Ripper? After all, it will soon be Halloween, and Nell Shipman, choreographer and associate artistic director of the Portland Ballet Company, was looking for a new and appropriate subject, after the success of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” She rejected vampires, which have been reduced to the level of a […]

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    September 29, 2013

    Art review: Sendak inspires love and controversy

    A School Library Journal survey named Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are” as the top picture book of 2012. First published 50 years ago, “Wild Things” won the prestigious Caldecott Medal as the most distinguished children’s book of 1963. Twenty million copies have since been sold. Yet “Where the Wild Things Are” was controversial […]

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    September 29, 2013

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