Art “Two Visions,” paintings by Lenora Leibowitz and photo- graphs by Rita Spinella Olsen, 3Fish Gallery, Portland. 3fish gallery.com. Through Saturday. “Illustrated Passages,” Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset. maineartgallery.org. Artists chose a piece of text to accompany their art. Ends Sunday. “The Draw of the Normandy Coast (1860–1960),” European and American paintings and works on paper, […]
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Movie review: Animated ‘ParaNorman’ delightfully spooky, edgy
Norman, the young hero of the animated delight “ParaNorman,” hears dead people. He sees them, too. So there’s no sense trying to comfort him because you think he’s missing his dead grandma too much. “Grandma’s in a better place.” “In the LIVING room?” Since Norman has grown up in Blithe Hollow, a town with a […]
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Book Review: A case for Child as ‘cultural guerrilla’
The author’s portrait of the celebrity cook looks at her place in American history.
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Snap judgment
Photographer Samantha Appleton always looks for that intimate, one-of-a-kind image, whether as a foreign correspondent in bombed-out Baghdad or as a White House photographer in an elevator with the Obamas.
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Author Q & A: Roads scholar
Ann Rockefeller Roberts wrote the book — and has now revised it — telling the story of Acadia National Park’s carriage roads.
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Dine Out Maine: After hundreds of dishes sampled, these rise to the top
In this column, my co-reviewer, Shonna Milliken Humphrey, and I seek to discover and communicate what makes a restaurant special or unique. That’s why you’ll seldom find us reviewing the chains. After personally logging just over 50 reviews for this newspaper, I thought it was time to highlight a few things that we’ve found particularly […]
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Arts Planner
This week • Fresh off its successful run of the Red Sox version of “Damn Yankees,” the Ogunquit Playhouse opens its next show of the summer this week with Dolly Parton’s “9 To 5: The Musical.” This production is based on the movie about three office workers and their plan to get even with their […]
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Michael Cuzzi: Why east-west road hit reverse
Mainers want economic development, but are predisposed to reject projects like the proposed east-west highway.
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Savvy Senior: Younger spouse has options for insurance
DEAR SAVVY SENIOR: My wife, who’s 60, is on my health insurance plan through my employer. When I retire in a few months at 65 and go on Medicare, what happens to her? Do we have to purchase private insurance, or is there some kind of Medicare coverage for dependent spouses? — Nearly Retired DEAR […]
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Motherlode: Reaching out to include the special needs child
Should you invite the special needs child to your child’s birthday party? That was last week’s quandary, and it prompted, initially, the expected knee-jerk reactions from the moment a parent posted it on my Facebook page: of course you should! But the parent who wrote the question knows there’s a huge gulf between what people […]