WESTBROOK – Sometime after ice-out this spring, Portland artist Aaron Stephan will hop in a truck with a buddy and travel north to Moosehead Lake and the headwaters of the Kennebec River. They will scavenge for old-growth logs left over from the logging boom, buried in the mud in the depths below the surface. Hundreds […]
March 2010
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Oscars’ In Memoriam always tugs at the heart
The moving segment can be painful to put together, says its producer.
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Friends in high places
From Mount Katahdin to the White House, it’s the story of Maine guide Bill Sewall and his long and influential friendship with Teddy Roosevelt.
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Classical Beat: DaPonte quartet unseals Janacek’s ‘Intimate Letters’
In my music library is a paperback by the British writer Nigel Cawthorne titled “Sex Lives of the Great Composers.” The great Czech composer Leos Janacek isn’t featured, but he should have been. Unhappily married, he consoled himself with a series of affairs that were found extremely shocking at the time. His most famous opera, […]
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Author elegantly invokes the gods
John Banville interweaves a gifted mathematician with parallel universes.
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Arts Dispatches
PORTLAND Hurt flutist Galway cancels guest spot in NPR’s concert Flutist Sir James Galway, who was scheduled to appear as a guest as part of a concert and recording of the NPR show “From the Top” at 7 p.m. March 24 at Merrill Auditorium, will not be part of the performance because of an injury. […]
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Letters to the Editor: March 7, 2010
Wind project raises serious concerns There is a tide in Maine that is threatening to sweep away many of our state’s treasures. The mountains of rural Maine have been targeted by our lawmakers and the wind industry for rapid development. A proposal to build Maine’s largest wind complex in Highland Plantation, at the doorstep of […]
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Tonight’s the night
Will double the number of Best Picture nominees make for twice the suspense at the Oscars? Probably not, but there should be plenty enough intrigue to satisfy your inner cinemaniac.
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Risk of infection growing amid Chile’s quake debris
Chile needs clean water, electricity and functioning septic systems, says the mayor of Talcahuano.
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On the Move
NEW FACES Matthew Simard, Michael Robin and Helen Belisle have joined Northeast Financial at Northeast Bank. Simard and Robin will serve as financial consultants, and Belisle is a registered customer service specialist. Karen Jones of Falmouth joined Keller Williams Realty as an associate broker. She is a member of the Portland Board of Realtors […]