It’s hard for us to believe sometimes that our parents had lives before they started having children. Ann Boyce, of Arundel, was no different.
2012
MOVIE REVIEW: Ferrell right at home in this over-the-top ‘Casa’
A one-joke comedy has to have a pretty good joke to come off, and Ferrell commits corazon y alma (heart and soul) to this Spanish-language farce.
SOCIETY NOTEBOOK: Expressing Support
Friends of the Fiddlehead Center raise $7,500 to help fund its visual and performing arts and science programs.
Dine Out Maine: Cozy spot brings big German flavors to Portland
Schulte & Herr has become a popular spot for breakfast and lunch.
Audience Calendar
Art “Another Part of Me,” works of art by staff and faculty, University of New England (Campus Center), Biddeford. une.edu. Through April 2. “As High as Heaven,” paintings and drawings by Monroe artist Kenny Cole, Perimeter Gallery, Belfast. 338-0555. Through April 21. “Are You Really My Friend?”, photographs by Tanya Alexa Hollander of her Facebook […]
Bob Keyes: At Colby, top-down appreciation for art museum and its staff
Many people familiar with the Colby College Museum of Art understand that the museum enjoys a deep level of support among the college administration.
Art Review: A rare look at the grumpy, elusive Degas
“Edgar Degas: The Private Impressionist” features a large number of canceled prints, many student drawings (he studied under Ingres), and a large and interesting group of works by his contemporaries. While the show is supposed to be the Robert Flynn Johnson collection punctuated with a few choice pieces from the PMA, the additions generally eclipse […]
Charles Lawton: To face global threats, creativity must be sparked in the trenches
In seeking a single, fundamental explanation for why the Allies won the Second World War, many analysts point to the Manhattan Project — the secret work of a select group of extraordinarily smart physicists that paved the way to the atomic bomb. Others point to the wizardry of the codebreakers who unlocked the Enigma machine […]
Letters to the editor, March 18, 2012Readers react to King for Senate
There is clearly a political problem in Washington. But it’s naive to think that a freshman senator with no party affiliation can fix it. Despite Angus King’s remarkable personality, it seems unlikely that he would be able to rally moderate Democrats and Republicans to his cause and pass bipartisan legislation. Sitting senators are not likely […]
On the Move
NEW FACES • Andy Bean joined Winxnet, a Portland-based IT solutions provider, as a technical support specialist. Bean has more than four years of technical support experience. Most recently, he worked as a business help desk specialist for Great Works Internet. • John Devereaux of North Berwick joined the sales team at Classic Flooring, 429 […]