“Breakthrough: Work by Contemporary Chinese Women Artists” is one of the year’s best exhibitions in Maine. It addresses some vastly complicated issues without dumbing them down while managing to be an engaging show that is very easy to enjoy. The exhibition was co-curated by Bowdoin’s Shu-Chin Tsui, associate professor of Asian Studies and film studies, […]
Arts & Entertainment
Movie review: ‘Free Birds’ is a real turkey of a ‘toon
“Free Birds” is more proof, as if 2013 needed it, that Hollywood has almost killed the animated goose that laid the golden egg. No matter that in this case, the goose is a turkey. You didn’t need to be told that. But a year that has produced the clever and heartfelt “The Croods” and the […]
Society Notebook: Martinis & Art fundraiser
Joy. That’s the best way to describe it. This was a room filled with joy. Three open levels of people sipping martinis, nibbling fresh lobster from mini martini glasses and admiring original artwork by some of the most talented artists our fair state has to offer. Friends. Colleagues. Survivors. Toasting each other, catching up and […]
Book review: Young-adult novel ‘Dead Set’ a departure for Richard Kadrey
His foray into young-adult fiction introduces
a true heroine in the plucky, somewhat punky, Zoe.
Book Signings, Etc.
Julia Spencer Fleming will discuss her new book, “Through Evil Days,” the eighth installment in a murder mystery series pairing Episcopal priest Clare Fergusson and Police Chief Russ Van Alstyne. This time, the couple is out to solve a double homicide at a farmhouse while working 24/7 to find a child, missing from the home, […]
Movie review: ‘12 Years’ broaches subject that movies have conspicuously avoided
Steve McQueen leads his audience on an often excruciating, sometimes beautiful journey in his retelling of the story of Solomon Northup.
The many faces of Portland actor Dustin Tucker
The transplanted Texan, who has just begun one of the busiest stretches of his career in Maine, talks about life off stage.
Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry
Shooting a deer is a common rite of initiation for boys in Maine. But in today’s sonnet, by Thomas Carper of Cornish, the initiation has gone very wrong.
Dine Out Maine: Food fan tucks in his napkin, hoists his fork and prepares to dish
I’ve been going to restaurants ever since I can remember. Growing up in New York I was weaned on the infinite pleasures of dining out. That stratified Manhattan restaurant hierarchy of who you knew (the maitre d’) and where you sat (the best banquette) was taught to me at an early age. Many years later […]
Belfast artist comes ‘Full Circle’ with Rockland exhibition
Eric Leppanen, a Belfast artist and winner of Ovation’s Artist in Motion contest, is showing his work in an exhibit this month at Asymmetrick Arts.