Arts & Entertainment

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February 24, 2013

Signings, etc.

ISABEAU ESBY and A.J. KITT
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February 24, 2013

Art Review: ‘Everything’ pretty well describes it

How could anyone underestimate a show titled “Everything”? Yet it’s practically impossible not to underestimate Astrid Bowlby’s drawing installation on view and ever-growing in the University of Southern Maine Gorham art gallery. It’s an installation of simplified black ink drawings of easily identifiable things. Bowlby has taken requests from the public via written suggestions dropped […]
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February 24, 2013

Academy Awards: And another Mainer hoping for a piece of the Oscar ‘Pi’

One of the films standing in the way of Eric Saindon’s chance for a visual effects Oscar is “Life of Pi.” And one of the key consultants on that shipwreck epic — who survived a shipwreck himself and is currently battling complications from leukemia — is Steven Callahan of Lamoine. The film is nominated for […]
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February 24, 2013

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

Today’s poem about dividing the spoils after a divorce comes from Donald Crane, who lives on the Down East coast above Milbridge.
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February 24, 2013

Book Review: Parker chases something dark through Maine woods

John Connolly’s new Charlie Parker thriller/mystery, “The Wrath of Angels,” is much like the corner of the Great North Woods of Maine, where the central tension of the story is spawned. There are many “paths” for the book’s characters to enter these woods, but once they do, a haunting wraps itself around them, disorienting them […]

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February 24, 2013

Campaign spending soars in Oscar races

Forget about the price of gasoline: The real skyrocketing expense this year was the Oscar race. With two deep-pocketed studios locked into one of the closest best picture duels in recent memory and Academy Award voting extended by two weeks, the battle between “Argo” and “Lincoln” sparked what several Hollywood executives say is the costliest […]
Published
February 17, 2013

Calendar

Art “Between Past and Present: The Homer Studio Photographic Project,” contemporary photography made with historic processes, through Sunday; 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, […]
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February 17, 2013

Dem bones, dem bones, gonna swing around at ICA exhibit

PORTLAND — If you haven’t already, be sure to take time to check out the exhibition “Dan DenDanto and Frank DenDanto: BUMP,” on view through April 7 at the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art. And with school vacation week at hand, be sure to bring your kids. This is very much […]
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February 17, 2013

Movie review: Don’t go hankie-less to ‘Safe Haven’

When it comes to trying to make you cry, there are no safe havens in “Safe Haven.” The latest film based on a novel by Nicholas Sparks — the author who’s elicited more tears than an onion factory — includes plot points of spousal abuse, cancer, cute kids, children in peril, a hunk with a […]
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February 17, 2013

Dine out Maine: Enjoy a perfect mix of latitude and attitude at 45 North

Go north, young men. And women. To 45 North. The Sugarloaf Mountain ski resort has just added this first-rate restaurant to its heretofore less-than-stellar mix (that includes the region, which has been weak in noteworthy restaurants since the Porter House in Eustis closed). 45 North, so named because the mountain sits at this latitude, occupies […]

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