Arts & Entertainment
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PublishedDecember 23, 2012
Dine Out Maine: Flaky Tart’s once-a-month prix fixe is outstanding fare
There’s nothing like stumbling across good food where you least expect it. The small village center of Winthrop, far from big city lights, indie films and Manhattans on the rocks, offered up a delightful surprise. In October, Maine artist Amy Stacey Curtis exhibited her massive work, “Space,” across the street from The Flaky Tart in […]
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PublishedDecember 23, 2012
Movie Review: Apatow returns to funny form with ‘This Is 40’
“This Is 40” is a bull’s-eye zeitgeist comedy, a movie in which everyone acts like real people but funnier. In his fourth directorial outing, Judd Apatow gives us plenty to feel good about. There’s a humane empathy for his flawed characters as they grapple with marriage, family and encroaching middle age. There are plenty of […]
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PublishedDecember 23, 2012
Book Review: Book resurrects a lost era in Maine woods
From the pages of an old (circa 1860) novel, a trapper by a campfire introduces his story: “It don’t run so much to the great and terrible as the small and curious.” That’s just the range of yarns that Steve Pinkham has resurrected in his new book. Pinkham, who grew up in western Maine, collects […]
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PublishedDecember 23, 2012
Calendar
Art “Weatherbeaten: Winslow Homer and Maine,” 35 major oils and watercolors, Portland Museum of Art. portlandmuseum.org. Through Dec. 30. “Between Past and Present: The Homer Studio Photographic Project,” contemporary photography made with historic processes, Portland Museum of Art. portlandmuseum.org. Through Feb. 17. “The Portland Society of Art and Winslow Homer’s Legacy in Maine,” exploring the […]
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PublishedDecember 23, 2012
Author Q & A: Clothes-Minded
Siobhan McDonough's passion for fashion comes through in her new book, 'My Mother's Dressing Room.'
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PublishedDecember 23, 2012
Movies: Dramatizing the ultimate ‘Dark’ op
In 2008, the screenwriter Mark Boal sought an appointment with a retired special-ops agent. Boal was researching a movie about the fruitless search for Osama bin Laden in the caves of Tora Bora six years before, and he wanted insight into how U.S. forces gathered intelligence. The agent agreed to meet, but under strict conditions. […]
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PublishedDecember 23, 2012
Jingle bell shop
The Old Port – and hundreds of visitors – revel in Merry Madness.
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PublishedDecember 23, 2012
Book Review: Mystery, suspense disrupt tiny isle
Chris Ewan's fictional tale is told intelligently and with plenty of action.
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PublishedDecember 23, 2012
Art Review: Paint – thick and fresh – and two young artists to watch
One distinction we don’t make often enough is between the roles played by brushwork and paint itself. There is a graphic quality to Maine painting in general that is tied to the high esteem we put on mark-making and brushwork. But brushwork bravado isn’t the only thing you can appreciate. Sometimes, artists indulge in the […]
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PublishedDecember 23, 2012
Signings, etc.
J.R. MACKENZIE
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