Arts & Entertainment

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January 1, 2012

Dine Out Maine: Dogfish takes neighborhood bar concept to another level

I can count a dozen neighborhood bars in downtown Portland, and while each has a niche, few offer the totality of experience found at Dogfish Bar and Grille. Live local music? Rotating art gallery? Fun drink specials? Two decks for warm-weather enjoyment? Familiar comfort food, but served with flair? Vegetarian options that don’t feel like […]
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January 1, 2012

Author Q&A: Fenway lark

Bates grad Richard A. Johnson delves into the fabled Boston ballpark's lesser known – and hugely entertaining – history.
Published
January 1, 2012

Music: Five gems that you may have missed

Like the national debt, Justin Bieber and the universe itself, the Internet got bigger this year. And that means you, dear music fan, are faced with a perennial choice: You can hide under your covers as the world of pop music grows online with ferocious speed, or you can summon your inner Lewis and Clark […]
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January 1, 2012

Book Review: In ‘Less Than Human,’ demeaning explained

Ah, the things we see, or know of, and roundly ignore, or sometimes confront in the pursuit of our own happiness. The things we say about “others” in the heat of the moment. In everyday chit-chat, we hear it, we say it, and we hardly give it a thought. In his incisive new book, “Less […]
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January 1, 2012

Retired vehicles ride again in new photo show

South Portland photographer Jonathan M. Dunitz exhibits a series of photographs of old and abandoned vehicles in a show titled “Forgotten Transport,” opening Friday at Blue, 605A Congress St., Portland. Dunitz portrays the vehicles in full color, while desaturating the background to appear black and white. The process gives the vehicles a ghost-like appearance. Dunitz […]

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January 1, 2012

Movies: Streep becomes ‘Iron Lady’ for latest role

NEW YORK – Meryl Streep shuffles down a London street wearing a kerchief, a drab beige overcoat and enough prosthetic wrinkles to pass as an octogenarian in the opening scene of her new movie about former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, “The Iron Lady.” For Streep, shooting the sequence provided a jarring taste of a […]
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January 1, 2012

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

In our first poem of the new year, Thomas Moore of Brooksville looks back on the risks he and his friends once took as they glided over the ice holding ropes behind a Plymouth in the dark. Note how Moore imitates the dangers he describes with long sentences that turn sharply at line breaks and […]
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January 1, 2012

Ten from ’11

We looked in the cultural rear-view mirror and selected Maine's top A&E stories of 2011.
Published
January 1, 2012

Art Review: ‘Muralgate’ topped unforgettable year in Maine art

A critical look back at Maine art in 2011 and a view of 2012.
Published
December 25, 2011

2011: Year of pleasant surprises

Will Farrell gets serious, Martin Scorsese does a kids' movie, and Woody Allen? Still funny.

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