The closest restaurant that passengers encounter after getting off the Amtrak DownEaster in Brunswick is Byrnes’ Irish Pub, just steps away. Apparently, business has picked up some since train service started. But people who want distinctive food with their many beer choices would do well to venture a little farther. It’s not just that Brunswick […]
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Society Notebook: Rock Around the World supports language program
Imagine a dance party that is a melting pot of cultures – including Cambodian, Iraqi, Chinese, Bolivian and Namibian, among others. A woman in Sudanese dress hula hooping. A belly dancer swing dancing in a sari. Last weekend’s eighth annual Rock Around the World fundraiser for the Multilingual Summer Academic Program in Portland was its […]
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Paging mystery lovers: Try these
New works by authors Peter May and Erin Hart are close neighbors.
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Review: Exploring the seamy side of spring break
Spring break: It’s every bit as much fun as you think it is. Until it isn’t. “Spring Breakers” is Harmony (“Gummo”) Korine’s fever-dream of something he never experienced — an orgy of sand, sin and snorting. And if his cameras — cellphone video inserts blur through the narrative — focus on pert bikini bottoms and […]
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In the Arts: At PMA, revisit – and interact with – 25 years of Architalx
Architalx is a phenomenon. An exercise in aesthetic elegance, it exists in a climate of its own making and high purpose. I applaud its intentions and its resilience in a state in which prevailing interest does not make for easy sustainment. If you’re still with me, you probably know that Architalx, which is represented in […]
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American lit: How Edison changed the culture
The national character and its bold embrace of innovation found its spark in the birth of electricity, Ernest Freeberg’s new book contends.
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Art Review: Treat yourself to a fine Mess at a fine young gallery space
Jonathan Mess is one of my favorite Maine artists. I have written about his work before, but I doubt I could cover all the ideas that his art puts into play even in a book. Yet the Mess show is my first mention of Westbrook’s Saccarappa Art Collective, which is headed toward its first anniversary […]
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Midcoast to perform Brahms and Britten
TOPSHAM – The Midcoast Symphony Orchestra will perform under guest conductor Hiroya Miura at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Orion Performing Arts Center, 50 Republic Ave., Topsham. Tenor Jeffrey Hartman, accompanied by the orchestra, will perform Britten’s “Les Illuminations.” The orchestra will also perform Brahms’ Variations on a Theme by Haydn and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. […]
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Giving voice to books
Tavia Gilbert has recorded more than 200 audio books, learning along the way that sometimes it gets deeply personal.
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Calendar: Your Arts and Entertainment Guide
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 […]