Five miles from Freeport, this excellent cafe is worth a drive.
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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. “Iconic America: The U.S. Outline as National Symbol,” University of Southern Maine (Osher […]
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Book Review: Kidnap tale with reptilian twists
The hostage thriller keeps a breathless pace – and the reader turning pages.
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West Island Gallery shows work of Bath artist Richard Sears
BATH — The West Island Gallery, 11 Centre St., hosts an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Maine artist Richard Sears though Nov. 24. The exhibition includes mostly recent work and ranges from local landscapes, still lifes and evocations of snow-thaw patterns and rural Maine scenes. Hours are noon to 6 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday. […]
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Scene & Heard: All hands on deck
Supporters turn out for the SailMaine Soiree, which raises money to make it more affordable to teach kids to learn to sail.
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‘Skyfall:’ Bond with Hitchcock flavor
“Skyfall’s” director says you have to remind yourself what it was like to watch Bond when you were 13.
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Ambitious ‘Cloud Atlas’ just too much, too fast
A work of stunning images, staggering ambition and epic length, “Cloud Atlas” is an attempt to create nothing less than a “unified field” theory of science fiction. If you’re the Wachowskis, who once set the movie world afire with “The Matrix,” you can be forgiven such pretentious overreaching. In “Cloud Atlas,” four Oscar winners and […]
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Zemeckis back in (live) action and ‘Flight’ is the right ticket
The maker of ‘Forrest Gump’ and other award winners spent the past decade on animation.
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Art Review: Tom Hall at June Fitzpatrick: Powerful, powerful stuff
Tom Hall’s “Paintings” at June Fitzpatrick Gallery in Portland is one of the best gallery shows I have ever seen in Maine. Many of the paintings exude an undeniable and irresistible power. I mean that literally. While it is a great show, not all of the 27 paintings and six monotypes are equally successful. That […]