Arts & Entertainment
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PublishedNovember 6, 2011
Books: Best-Sellers
FICTION HARDCOVER 1. “1Q84,” by Haruki Murakami (Knopf) 2. “The Marriage Plot,” by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar Straus Giroux) 3. “The Cat’s Table,” by Michael Ondaatje (Knopf Publishing) 4. “The Sense of an Ending,” by Julian Barnes (Knopf) 5. “Heroes of Olympus Book 2: The Son of Neptune,” by Rick Riordan (Hyperion Books) 6. “Mr. Fox,” […]
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PublishedNovember 6, 2011
Society Notebook: How ya gonna keep ’em?
Maine Farmland Trust celebrates its mission to help farms and farmers.
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PublishedNovember 6, 2011
Signings, etc.
T.R. REID
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PublishedOctober 30, 2011
Book Review: Domestic thriller uses fears, follies of 9/11
It’s Halloween 2001, just weeks after the events of 9/11. In a leafy suburb west of Boston, kids are out in costume, trick-or-treating. Among them is a pair of Middle Eastern brothers dressed in provocative garb: The older, about 16, wears a white robe and headdress, revealing only his eyes and brows. In one hand, […]
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PublishedOctober 30, 2011
Bob Keyes: A leap of faith, and composer moved to song
In these crazy times, a little unity can go a long way. Portland-based composer Hank Beebe felt a wave of inspiration wash over him this past summer when he learned of the unification of Williston-West United Church of Christ and Immanuel Baptist Church. The two churches came together to form Williston-Immanuel United Church. “These times […]
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PublishedOctober 30, 2011
Arts Planner
This week • Brigit Pegeen Kelly and Gray Jacobik will give back-to-back readings at the University of Southern Maine later this week. Both are free and open to the public. Kelly is featured in the 12th annual Katherine O’Brien Poetry reading sponsored by the USM English Department through a bequest from the O’Brien family. She […]
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PublishedOctober 30, 2011
Signings, etc.
WESLEY McNAIR
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PublishedOctober 30, 2011
Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry
Through the tender conversation of today's poem, Martin Steingesser, Portland's first poet laureate, reveals two mothers: One from the present, the other from the past.
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PublishedOctober 30, 2011
Dine out Maine: Fuel transports diners to heights of French country fare
Fuel is hot stuff. Enter to find flickering candles set aloft in contemporary metal pieces on red brick-colored walls. Here too are black leather lounge couches, a lustrous bar, a giant painting of the Chicago skyline. Welcome to an upscale urban refuge says the decor at Fuel, from the sleek entrance to the back wall […]
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PublishedOctober 30, 2011
Playing with Paine
The Portland String Quartet today performs a never-heard-before 1850s piece by renowned musicologist and native son John Knowles Paine.
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