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April 28, 2013

Society Notebook: Rack and roll

Supporters don Goodwill finds and head to the Little Black Dress fundraiser to aid veterans.
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April 28, 2013

Movie Review: Redford’s ‘Company’ character running to and from dark past

Some actors are lucky. In the third act of their careers, they become dream versions of their own parents, or grandparents. Paul Newman did that. So did Katharine Hepburn. We got to know them, and love them, at one age; then, against every Hollywood dictum, they were allowed to mature, to mellow, as they acquired […]
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April 28, 2013

Signings, etc.: R. Ann Rousseau

Author Robin Ann Rousseau will discuss her new novel, “Portsmouth: A Love Story,” which takes readers on a journey through the main streets and back doors of New Hampshire’s Seacoast, past and present. Meet the ghost of Hannah at the Three Chimneys Inn in Durham; walk the beautiful beach at Wallis Sands in Rye; and […]
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April 28, 2013

Author Q&A: Sleuth-telling

For Victoria Doudera, a detour into selling real estate opened the door that led to writing what's become a series of mystery books.
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April 28, 2013

Movie Review: The making of Aussie soul sisters

“The Sapphires” is an unpolished gem of a musical, a dramedy with a familiar ’60s girl-group-on-the-rise story pasted over a backdrop of Australian racism and America’s long war in Vietnam. It’s a tribute to the filmmakers (director Wayne Blair, working from a Tony Briggs and Keith Thompson script) that this confection often manages to connect […]

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April 28, 2013

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

Bruce Guernsey of Bethel has appeared twice before in the Take Heart column. Today he offers a group portrait of a family at the dump. The Dump Pickers By Bruce Guernsey On Sundays carting my trash to the dump I’d see them swarming the piles like gnats, a whole family of pickers straight from Mass: […]
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April 21, 2013

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

The late Elizabeth Coatsworth was a member of a Maine literary family that included her late husband, Henry Beston, and also includes her daughter, Kate Barnes, a former state poet laureate who lives in Appleton. In this week’s poem, Coatsworth describes the tentative beginning of a Maine spring. Night Wind in Spring By Elizabeth Coatsworth […]
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April 21, 2013

An artistic decade in Biddeford

BIDDEFORD – The former Colette’s Cup Gallery, 146 Alfred St., is reopening this week for an exhibit, “Art in Biddeford: A 10-year Retrospective.” The exhibit, which opens from 5 to 10 p.m. Friday and noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, will feature works by local artists, including Kelly Jo Shows, Russel Whitten, Bud Swenson, Michelle Caron, […]
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April 21, 2013

Book Review: Atkinson enthralls in latest narrative

In Kate Atkinson’s “Life After Life,” Ursula Todd is born in the British countryside in 1910 — and dies almost immediately, umbilical cord wrapped around her neck, “a helpless little heart beating wildly. Stopped suddenly like a bird dropped from the sky.” No matter. She’s born again — and again and again and again. Each […]
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April 21, 2013

Calendar

Art “Inspirations from the Cape,” paintings, photography and ceramics by established and emerging artists, The DaVinci Experience Art Gallery, Falmouth. Sunday. “Rebirth,” art by Maine Artists Collective that is “non-religious” but “born again,” Constellation Gallery, Portland. constellationart.com. Through Tuesday. “Still Points of the Turning World,” contemporary photographers, Maine Jewish Museum, Portland. mainejewishmuseum.org. Through Thursday. “Spring […]

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