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March 24, 2013

Review: Exploring the seamy side of spring break

Spring break: It’s every bit as much fun as you think it is. Until it isn’t. “Spring Breakers” is Harmony (“Gummo”) Korine’s fever-dream of something he never experienced — an orgy of sand, sin and snorting. And if his cameras — cellphone video inserts blur through the narrative — focus on pert bikini bottoms and […]
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March 24, 2013

Review: It’s a dark and stormy ‘Stoker’

There’s a suggestion of vampirism in the title of “Stoker.” The stylish chiller shares its name with Dracula’s author, but its fixation on blood moves in a different direction — deposits, not withdrawals. The tale concerns bad blood being transfused from one generation to the next. The blood relations in question are prim, privileged India […]
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March 24, 2013

Paging mystery lovers: Try these

New works by authors Peter May and Erin Hart are close neighbors.
Published
March 24, 2013

Book Review: Poet’s work shares how torn family shaped him

Near the end of his extraordinary memoir, “The Words I Chose: A Memoir of Family and Poetry,” award-winning Maine Poet Laureate Wesley McNair states, “Poets are menders of broken things.” McNair is noted for his poetry about “broken New England” and the brokenness of his childhood, in having a father who abandoned the family and […]
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March 24, 2013

Signings, etc.: W. Jeffrey Bolster

Professor W. Jeffrey Bolster will speak about his book, “The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail.” Since the time of the Vikings, the Atlantic has shaped the lives of people who depend on it for survival and those people have shaped the Atlantic. In his account of this interdependency, Bolster, a […]

Published
March 17, 2013

Book Review: A delight to have detective in action

John Rebus is not ready for retirement from Ian Rankin's crime novels.
Published
March 17, 2013

Dine Out Maine: At LFK, name is elusive, but food is easy to love

It’s 5 p.m. on a Saturday, and outdoors around Longfellow Square in Portland, the snow-spitting night is redolent with savory food in the first throes of browning. Which high-quality restaurant is it from — Petite Jacqueline, Boda, Local 188, Pai Men Mayaki? It’s early, so a few of these aren’t serving yet. We duck into […]
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March 17, 2013

Bagpipes and drums come to Portland

Throughout their history, bagpipes have been linked by definition with the fighting Scots — first the Highlanders who invented them, then the Scottish regiments of the United Kingdom. That military spirit will be evident Sunday afternoon at the Cumberland County Civic Center, when the pipes, drums and Highland dancers of the Black Watch (officially, the […]
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March 17, 2013

Bowdoin College Museum of Art presents works of Danish artist

BRUNSWICK — Bowdoin College Museum of Art will present the first American retrospective of one of Europe’s most distinguished contemporary painters, Danish artist Per Kirkeby, March 26 through July 14 at the museum of art, 9400 College Station. Kirkeby is a painter, sculptor, geologist, filmmaker and writer whose career spans 40 years. The major retrospective […]
Published
March 17, 2013

Calendar

Art Lois Dodd: “Catching the Light,” career retrospective — 1955-2012 — for the Maine painter, through April 7; and “Voices of Design” — 25 Years of Architalx, interactive exhibition that showcases the power of design, through May 19, Portland Museum of Art. portlandmuseum.org. “Malaga Island: Fragmented Lives,” historic photographs, documents, artifacts and first-person accounts, Maine […]

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