The movie business is predicated on predictability. It’s a pattern most everyone in Hollywood understands and accepts — but apparently not George Clooney.
Arts & Entertainment
PMA show features actor and artist portraits
The Portland Museum of Art showcases its collection of celebrity portraits in the exhibition ‘Making Faces: Photographic Portraits of Actors and Artists.’
Society Notebook: Mayoral grace
Still recovering from cancer surgery, Portland Mayor Michael Brennan meets with members of the creative community, affirming its importance to the city.
Book Review: Little people, big message in book by Maine professors
At its best, “The Wicked Small People of Whiskey Bridge” is enjoyable for both adults and as children’s fiction.
Dining Out Maine: From Ricetta’s brick oven come outstanding homestyle tributes
Note to my parent-friends who lament the lack of kid-friendly dining options: Try Ricetta’s. Note to my parent non-friends who insist upon bringing cranky kiddos to adult-oriented establishments during peak dining times: Really, try Ricetta’s. I expect to catch heat for that observation, but I stand by it. My parent-friends complain about the lack of […]
Audience Calendar
Art “Gather Up the Fragments: The Andrews Shaker Collection,” Shaker furniture, printed works, visual art, tools, textiles and small crafts, Portland Museum of Art. 775-6148; portlandmuseum.org. Through Feb. 5. “Focus on India,” photographs by Lawrence Elbroch, Red Door Pottery Studio and Gallery Shop, Kittery. 439-5671. Through Feb. 1. History of Maine’s Gateway City, Maine Maritime […]
Arts Dispatches
ROCKPORT Fundraiser for nonprofit will feature graffiti art Dunk the Junk, a local nonprofit campaign against childhood obesity, will present the Hip Hop Dance Hall at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. The evening will feature an exhibition of graffiti art by Too Rich (aka Mike Rich of Portland) and other graffiti artists, as well […]
Classical Beat: Works of Jean Sibelius make for a must-go PSO concert
I was on Irondequoit Drive in Rochester, N.Y., driving an old MG-TD in September 1957 when I heard the news of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius’ death at age 91 and had to pull over. If a boyhood infatuation with the “1812 Overture” and “The Moldau” had sparked my interest in classical music, Sibelius’ “Karelia Suite” […]
Book Review: Ordinary paratrooper, extraordinary story
“HELL IS SO GREEN” By Lt. William Diebold. Lyons Press. 259 pages. $22.95. The first time Lt. William Diebold flew into the Himalayas in a drafty Douglas C-47 cargo plane in World War II, his reservations about volunteering to parachute into them were justified. “They were the biggest, highest hunks of earth I have ever […]
Author Q&A: Fight of their lives
Maine native Charles Hamlin, an Air Force gunner in World War II, revisits that time with ‘True Stories of the Mighty Eighth.’