Arts & Entertainment
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PublishedOctober 2, 2011
Author Q &A: Compulsive gamboling
Janice Spaulding loves goats, so her new book aims to teach the like-minded both how to care for the animals and how to cook with their milk and meat.
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PublishedOctober 2, 2011
Society Notebook: Flights of fancy
The Jetport unveils its impressive $75 million passenger terminal at a VIP soiree on Thursday.
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PublishedOctober 2, 2011
For openers . . .
Conductor Robert Moody likens the Portland Symphony's first concerts of the 2011-12 season – featuring pianist Awadagin Pratt – to a 'great, gratifying, electric' journey.
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PublishedOctober 2, 2011
Book Review: Life spent pursuing normalcy
A new novel details the fame and misfortune of Mrs. Tom Thumb.
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PublishedOctober 2, 2011
Book Review: New book hits close to home with tales from War of 1812
Next year, the United States, Canada and Great Britain will observe the bicentennial of the War of 1812. For the U.S., which declared the war, it was mostly a string of defeats and humiliations. For Great Britain, it was a pesky, expensive sideshow of empire, hardly a war at all. For British North America, it […]
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PublishedOctober 2, 2011
Classical Beat: PSO performs opening shows in hue of ‘Blue’
It’s hard not to admire a composer who quotes Wittgenstein in his program notes, but I think I can manage it. The composer in this case is the highly successful Michael Torke, whose “Javelin” Olympics music was played last year by the Portland Symphony Orchestra under Robert Moody. I recall characterizing it as fascist bombast […]
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PublishedOctober 2, 2011
Signings, etc.
CHRIS VAN DUSEN
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PublishedOctober 2, 2011
Bob Keyes: Somewhere, the gallery gods are smiling
PORTLAND — Matt Welch understands that the economy is not well. Especially as it relates to the arts, the sluggish economy poses the single greatest challenge to visual artists and the galleries that represent them. But Welch isn’t interested in wallowing in the fear that’s associated with these difficult times. “Sometimes you get to the […]
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PublishedOctober 2, 2011
Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry
Tom Sexton divides his time between Alaska, where he recently served as poet laureate, and Down East Maine, where he observed the apples of these two poems.
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PublishedOctober 2, 2011
Art Review: They’re just little things, but these works are weighty indeed
One of the most famous, beloved and — indeed — powerful paintings in the world is Salvador Dali’s surrealist masterpiece, “The Persistence of Memory.” The iconic painting depicts a dreamy landscape in which even clocks are so mellowed that they melt in sleepy repose. I have seen it many times at the Museum of Modern […]
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