Joel Strunk, the son of Maine songwriter Jud Strunk, has made a feature-length film with a cast of stars for less than a $1 million.
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Manyan, Yates exhibit at Thomaston gallery
THOMASTON — Frost Gully Gallery, 150 Main St., will present an exhibition of figure paintings by Saco artist Janet C. Manyan and recent still-life and landscape paintings by Sharon Yates, who lives in Lubec. The exhibition runs from Saturday through May 19. Manyan and Yates have dual careers as painters and teachers – Manyan at […]
Signings, etc.: Author Tovar Cerulli
Author Tovar Cerulli will be at Longfellow Books this week talking about and signing his book “The Mindful Carnivore: A Vegetarian’s Hunt for Sustenance.” WHEN: 7 p.m. Thursday WHERE: Longfellow Books, One Monument Way, Portland HOW MUCH: Free INFO: Longfellowbooks.com
Portland architecture cast in new light
As he demonstrates in his photographic “Homage” to the painter, Clyde McCulley has a Hopper-esque appreciation for the play of sun and shadow.
Television: In ‘Magic City,’ a sordid, carnal Miami
The Starz channel drama that just debuted depicts an unruly time in the city and all of its depravity.
Art Review: Facebook show succeeds as questioning, interactive art
For younger Americans, Facebook is a fully integrated aspect of normal social life. Yet for many others, the viral logic that makes social media so pervasive is precisely the thing that makes it seem so alien. As I grew up, there were three television stations – the three networks – and Americans mostly watched the […]
Dine Out Maine: Emilitsa infuses Greek dishes with inspired colors, flavors
“A customer’s dining experience begins long before the first taste. It starts the moment they walk through the door: A friendly greeting, a welcoming environment, a drink preference remembered. All of this occurs even before the amuse-bouche. It doesn’t stop until the last crumb of dessert, the final sip of Greek coffee, or even when […]
CALENDAR: YOUR ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE
ART “Edgar Degas: The Private Impressionist,” drawings, prints, pastels, photographs and sculptures, Portland Museum of Art. 775-6148; portlandmuseum.org. Through May 28 Michael Bell-Smith, lo-fi environments, Maine College of Art (Institute of Contemporary Art), Portland. 699-5029. Ends today. “In a State of Becoming: Inuit Art from the Collection of Rabbi Harry Sky,” Bowdoin College (Peary-MacMillan Arctic […]
Best-Sellers
FICTION HARDCOVER 1. “Mockingjay,” by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic) 2. “Catching Fire,” by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic) 3. “11/22/63,” by Stephen King (Scribner) 4. “Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea,” by Morgan Callan Rogers (Viking) 5. “The O’Briens,” by Peter Behrens (Pantheon) 6. “The Sense of an Ending,” by Julian Barnes (Knopf) 7. “Elegy for […]
Arts Planner
THIS WEEK The Maine State Museum in Augusta will celebrate Maine’s role in the evolution of the board game when it hosts an illustrated talk, “Milton Bradley and the Checkered Game of Life,” at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. David Richards, interim director of the University of Maine Margaret Chase Smith Library in Skowhegan, will talk about the […]