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Arts & Entertainment

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June 23, 2013

Calendar

Art Philip Barter, new oil paintings and constructions in wood, Gleason Fine Art, Portland. gleasonfineart.com. Through Saturday. “Monhegan Island” by Kevin Beers, and “Drawing on Porcelain” by Tim Christensen Gleason Fine Art, Boothbay Harbor. gleasonfineart.com. Through July 27. “A Taste of Modernism — The William S. Paley Collection,” 62 works from the Paley Collection at […]
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June 23, 2013

Art Review: Environmentally tuned-in artists pay their respects to ‘Silent Spring’

I associate the George Marshall Store Gallery in York with some of the most coherently handsome gallery shows I have seen in Maine: Good art that looks good together. The venue itself is just as quirky (and cool) as you could expect of a 19th-century store overlooking Maine tidal waters. But “Silent Spring” is a […]
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June 23, 2013

Television: From ‘Desperate’ to ‘Devious’ with maids, not housewives

Writer Marc Cherry and actress Eva Longoria team up for a Lifetime series.
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June 23, 2013

Society Notebook: Harking ‘Mad’

The Ad Club of Maine celebrates the end of the year with a 'Mad Men'-themed bash.
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June 23, 2013

Author Q &A: Highly motivated

In his new book, Hallowell's John Gibson revisits some Henry David Thoreau hikes – and tells readers how they can experience the same peaks today.

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June 23, 2013

Joan Baez: Just plain folk

Ironically, it was ‘all opera and classical’ growing up for Joan Baez, who of course would go on to become perhaps the iconic singer-songwriter of her generation.
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June 23, 2013

Book Review: McCann writes like ‘a force of nature’

His latest novel employs a stream-of-consciousness approach to span 150 years
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June 23, 2013

Classical Beat: Music festivals about to burst into bloom

Don’t look now, but the summer music festival season is already upon us. The DaPonte String Quartet’s summer schedule began Saturday at the Denmark Arts Center. The program will be repeated at Centennial Hall in Harpswell on July 9 and St. Columba’s Church in Boothbay on July 11. The first series is devoted to trios […]
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June 23, 2013

Ogunquit-born, ‘Cycles’ lands in Winter Harbor

WINTER HARBOR – The Schoodic Education Research Center is featuring an ambitious art installation by renowned East Coast painter George Wardlaw. The exhibit — “Cycles: Time, Light, Life” — is composed of a series of eight massive canvases inspired by Wardlaw’s visits to Ogunquit during a 24-hour solstice period in June 2000. Each canvas measures […]
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June 23, 2013

Movies: Pixar’s ‘Monsters’ crew goes to college

The director and his team steeped themselves in campus culture to prepare for 'Monsters University.'