Excitement runs high as the Director’s Circle gets a preview of William S. Paley’s stellar art collection at the Portland Museum of Art.
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FICTION HARDCOVER 1. “Burgess Boys,” by Elizabeth Strout (Random House) 2. “White Dog Fell from the Sky,” by Eleanor Morse (Viking) 3. “Life Among Giants,” by Bill Roorbach (Algonquin) 4. “All That Is,” by James Salter (Knopf) 5. “Maya’s Notebook,” by Isabel Allende (Harper) 6. “Z,” by Theresa Fowler (St. Martin’s Press) 7. “Dinner,” by […]
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McConaughey gets down and dirty in ‘Mud’
“How the heck did he get on that island? How long has he been there? How the heck did he get cigarettes? How did he get Beanie-Weenies?” Those are just a few of the urgent questions Matthew McConaughey had for Jeff Nichols once the actor had pored over the writer / director’s screenplay, “Mud,” and […]
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Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry
Bruce Guernsey of Bethel has appeared twice before in the Take Heart column. Today he offers a group portrait of a family at the dump. The Dump Pickers By Bruce Guernsey On Sundays carting my trash to the dump I’d see them swarming the piles like gnats, a whole family of pickers straight from Mass: […]
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Movie Review: The making of Aussie soul sisters
“The Sapphires” is an unpolished gem of a musical, a dramedy with a familiar ’60s girl-group-on-the-rise story pasted over a backdrop of Australian racism and America’s long war in Vietnam. It’s a tribute to the filmmakers (director Wayne Blair, working from a Tony Briggs and Keith Thompson script) that this confection often manages to connect […]
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Signings, etc.: R. Ann Rousseau
Author Robin Ann Rousseau will discuss her new novel, “Portsmouth: A Love Story,” which takes readers on a journey through the main streets and back doors of New Hampshire’s Seacoast, past and present. Meet the ghost of Hannah at the Three Chimneys Inn in Durham; walk the beautiful beach at Wallis Sands in Rye; and […]
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Movie Review: Redford’s ‘Company’ character running to and from dark past
Some actors are lucky. In the third act of their careers, they become dream versions of their own parents, or grandparents. Paul Newman did that. So did Katharine Hepburn. We got to know them, and love them, at one age; then, against every Hollywood dictum, they were allowed to mature, to mellow, as they acquired […]
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Television: Harvey hits on a winning daytime formula
CHICAGO – “Steve Harvey” is not everyone’s cup of afternoon tea. Devotees of, say, “The Colbert Report” will find “Harvey’s” right-down-the-middle humor uninspiring. Funny newspaper headlines and jokes about how men behave versus how women behave — where have we seen that before? “Dr. Phil” fans might consider the veteran stand-up comic’s version of common […]
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Gleason opens Barter, Chatterton exhibits
PORTLAND – Gleason Fine Art will present two new shows Friday at its Portland gallery: “Philip Barter: New Work,” and “Clarence K. Chatterton (1880-1973): An Artist’s Artist.” The exhibit will start with an opening reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at the gallery, 545 Congress St. Barter began creating art in the 1960s. He […]
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Bob Keyes: For Fort Kent native and Bates alum, all’s well in Metropolis
Andrew Cyr admits, it feels really good to be right. The Fort Kent native and Bates College graduate began the Manhattan-based Metropolis Ensemble seven years ago for the single purpose of giving young classical music composers a chance to be heard. So far, it’s worked out well. The ensemble performs across New York, drawing nontraditional […]