Four years after winning the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for the book “Olive Kitteridge,” Portland native Elizabeth Strout is back. Her latest novel, “The Burgess Boys,” doesn’t disappoint. This post-9/11 story of family and forgiveness, identity and dislocation, has the hallmarks of a classic and the urgency of today’s news. The plot stems from a […]
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The Lunder: A gift that will keep on giving
Peter and Paula Lunder are local folks with deep roots in central Maine and at Colby College.
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Society Notebook: Telling Time at Glitterati
Maine authors and many supporters turn out at Glitterati, the sparkling event for Portland’s nonprofit writing center for young people.
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Signings, etc.: Neil Rolde
Award-winning historian, author, former legislator and York native Neil Rolde will talk about the newly updated edition of his book, “York Is Living History.” Originally published 41 years ago, the work features a lively, succinct history of York’s first four centuries, and is chock-full of events, drama and change. Rolde’s latest edition details changes from […]
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Poet, artist join at UMMA in ‘Place of Mind’
BANGOR – “Place of Mind: The John Bailly-Richard Blanco Collaborative Project” will be featured in an exhibition opening Friday at the University of Maine Museum of Art in Bangor. The exhibition features the mixed-media art of Bailly, produced in collaboration with Blanco, the poet who read at President Barack Obama’s second inauguration. It showcases three […]
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Movie Review: Don’t get ‘Spring Breakers’? That’s all part of the plan
It remains to be seen whether “Spring Breakers” turns out to be one of the movies of the year, but it is without question a movie of its moment. It has been a source of intense interest since shooting first started around St. Pete Beach in Florida last spring, as images began to surface via […]
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Premiering at Portland Stage: That thing called love
It’s intoxicating, it’s infuriating, it’s ever-elusive. Maine playwright John Cariani tries to pin it down with his latest, ‘Love/Sick,’ which is getting its world premiere at Portland Stage.
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Art Review: Exciting sculptures, but ‘Blizzards’ artist is too clever by half
Nathalie Miebach’s “Blizzards, Gales, and Ocean Buoys” at Common Street Arts in Waterville is a fascinating show. The gallery looks amazing, and the work sparkles and pops with energized rhythms and childishly bright colors. The works are startlingly exciting and complex basketry sculptures. Superficially, this is my kind of show: The concept-driven work executed with […]
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Author Q&A: Eats of Eden
A new book by Barbara Damrosch and Eliot Coleman teaches beginning gardeners how to grow and cook their own food.
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Calendar
Art Lois Dodd: “Catching the Light,” career retrospective — 1955-2012 — for the Maine painter, through April 7; and “Voices of Design” — 25 Years of Architalx, interactive exhibition that showcases the power of design, through May 19, Portland Museum of Art. portlandmuseum.org. “Malaga Island: Fragmented Lives,” historic photographs, documents, artifacts and first-person accounts, Maine […]