Arts & Entertainment
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PublishedOctober 9, 2011
Book Review: How ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ changed what and why we read
It can be a challenge to grasp the full historical context of a novel, even one as well known as Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” This is in spite of the fact that the novel is swollen with contextualized historical significance regarding race and slavery in antebellum America. After the Bible, in the 1850s […]
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PublishedOctober 9, 2011
Author Q & A: Kidding around
'Strega Nona's Gift' author Tomie dePaola stays in touch with the child inside.
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PublishedOctober 9, 2011
Lady grand
A new documentary from Portland filmmaker Huey explores the life and jazz of pianist Marian McPartland.
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PublishedOctober 9, 2011
Bob Keyes: Madeleine de Sinety and the power of observation
Madeleine de Sinety pulls her arms tight to her body, edges her wheelchair up to the cafe table, and takes a small bite of quiche. She savors the morsel, then turns and looks me in the eye. “I’m interested in people who live simple lives (on) small pieces of land,” says de Sinety, a tiny […]
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PublishedOctober 9, 2011
Public invited to ‘Dwelling Place’
Between Wednesday and Oct. 22, the University of Southern Maine community and the public are invited to see and experience “Dwelling Place,” a temporary public art installation in front of Luther Bonney Hall near Bedford Street in Portland. “Dwelling Place” is modeled after a traditional Jewish sukkah in celebration of a weeklong festival in which […]
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PublishedOctober 9, 2011
Signings, etc.
BARBARA WALSH
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PublishedOctober 9, 2011
Society Notebook: Tickled pink
A York Hospital breast cancer program benefits from a party with many parts.
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PublishedOctober 9, 2011
Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry
Today’s column features Richard Aldridge, a poet, anthologist and educator who lived on the Maine coast. In Aldridge’s poem, a moth becomes the source of thoughts about the unknown. Moth at My Window Against my pane He beats a rapid Pitapat In trying to reach The desk lamp lit In front of me. Wing flurries […]
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PublishedOctober 8, 2011
Dine Out Maine: Step back in time with Maria’s Old World cuisine
Rose-colored walls. White brick. Fake columns. Cut-glass chandeliers. Italian Renaissance sculptures in miniature. An open kitchen with a Plexiglas partition. No windows. Where are we? Maria’s in Portland. For some, it’s a nostalgic and enjoyable throwback. Think 1970s. The grown-ups are taking the family to a rare dinner out, to a gourmet spot, with fancy […]
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PublishedOctober 2, 2011
Arts Dispatches
PORTLAND Landmarks honors MECA for preservation of building Greater Portland Landmarks has given a Preservation Honor Award to the Maine College of Art for the preservation and adaptive reuse of the historic Miller Building (1904 and 1911), formerly the Porteous Mitchell & Braun department store, as a center of excellence for art education. MECA’s building, […]
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