Arts & Entertainment

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February 9, 2014

Festival alumni comprise a lineup that’s world class

The Bowdoin International Music Festival has a reputation for helping to train some of the world’s most accomplished classical musicians. Here are a few: Pianist Emanuel Ax is the most famous alumnus. Fred Sherry (cello) and Paul Neubauer (viola) are both long-standing members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and have held prominent […]
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February 9, 2014

Kaplan intends to go out with a 50th-year bang

The summer concert season at the Bowdoin International Music Festival remains a lot of melted snow and months away. But founding artistic director Lewis Kaplan has big plans for the 50th anniversary season, which also happens to be his last. Kaplan steps away from his duties at the conclusion of the festival, which runs June […]
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February 9, 2014

Movie preview: ‘Monuments Men’

Directing is Job No. 1 for George Clooney in World War II drama
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February 9, 2014

Art Review: ‘Fine Lines: American Drawings from the Brooklyn Museum’

The Portland Museum of Art show is an extraordinary opportunity for scholars and lovers of the form to see excellent and rarely seen work.
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February 9, 2014

Movie Review: ‘Lego Movie’

If the Looney Toons team had played with plastic blocks that snap together, “The Lego Movie” is the kind of surreal subversion they might have made. Their Looney heirs, the guys behind the original “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” (Phil Lord and Christopher Miller), have turned a 90-minute exercise in product placement into a […]

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February 9, 2014

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

Today’s poem for Valentine’s week comes from “The Next Hunger,” a new poetry collection by Kimberly Green of Kittery Point.
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February 9, 2014

Signings, Etc.

Author Renny Stackpole in Rockland Feb. 13.
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February 9, 2014

USM Theatre presents ‘Doubt’ at Studio Theater

John Patrick Shanley’s drama is a serious exploration of a sensitive subject.
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February 9, 2014

Music: Why Katy Perry’s ‘Dark Horse’ is No. 1

It’s a curiously spooky deviation from the norm on the pop star’s 2013 sparkly ‘Prism.’
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February 9, 2014

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