Oliver Burkeman suggests a “negative path” to happiness.
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ART “Weatherbeaten: Winslow Homer and Maine,” 35 major oils and watercolors, Portland Museum of Art. portlandmuseum.org. Through Dec. 30. “Between Past and Present: The Homer Studio Photographic Project,” contemporary photography made with historic processes, Portland Museum of Art. portlandmuseum.org. Through Feb. 17. The Portland Society of Art and Winslow Homer’s Legacy in Maine, exploring the […]
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Jackson tackles another Tolkien challenge
The director of the ‘Lord of the Rings’ trilogy returns with a three-part adaptation of the novelist’s ‘The Hobbit.’
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Dine Out Maine: Seafood the specialty of this house
The Freeport Seafood Co. offers lots of lobster dishes, along with plenty of other choices from land and sea.
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Movie Review: Keira and ‘Karenina’ made for each other
The new “Anna Karenina” is as regal, romantic and tragic as ever. The Tolstoy tale of a bored wife and doting mother martyred by her scandalous love for a rakish cavalry officer in Imperial Russia is a perfect period vehicle for Keira Knightley, who always brings a chest-heaving sexuality to such pieces — even the […]
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Bob Keyes: Faith at heart of this play for the season that’s not about Christmas
It is without too much exaggeration that Mike Levine says everyone he grew up with was Jewish. He came of age in Newton, Mass., which was home to a lot of Jewish families in the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s. That’s not so much the case in Maine. “It’s difficult to feel connected to your cultural […]
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Suspense novel brings Russian intrigue to Maine coast
Carla Neggers could have aptly given her latest suspense novel the classic title “Worlds in Collision,” by Russian writer Immanuel Velikovsky. But “Heron’s Cove” is fitting, for it is in this small seaside Maine town where multiple worlds collide, all centered around an anticipated theft of a priceless collection of jewelry that dates from Czarist […]
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Stars align for Bates, Space shows
We are carbon-based life forms. All life on Earth is carbon-based. Carbon is small, light and abundant, and it happens to have a practical atomic structure for making complex molecules. But where does that carbon come from? The carbon atoms in your body come from long-dead exploded stars — probably even from thousands of different […]
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Society Notebook: Merry manor
To dress in holiday style, the Victoria Mansion draws inspiration from the fabulous Gilded Age.
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Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry
Robert Siegel of South Berwick is one of Maine’s most accomplished poets. In today’s poem he describes the encounter with a nude in a museum painting.