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Arts & Entertainment

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September 15, 2013

Movie Review: Silly ‘Insidious 2’ sets table for sequels to come

More silly than its sinister predecessor, “Insidious: Chapter 2” is entertaining for the contortions the script makes to incorporate both a brief prequel and highlights from the first film into a new 105-minute package. This is a Mobius strip of a movie, looping in on itself with ghosts from “The Further” and parallel existences interwoven […]
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September 15, 2013

Society Notebook: Toast of the town

Hundreds gather for a Portland Greendrinks event to meet 'n greet, hoist a glass and support a worthy cause.
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September 15, 2013

Another medal for our hero Joshua Chamberlain

Maine's history community gets excited about news of the discovery of Civil War general Joshua Chamberlain’s original Medal of Honor.
Published
September 8, 2013

A life in pictures

The photographer Robert Freson, who captured on film some of the most famous faces of our time, has settled into a happy – and still busy – existence on Bailey Island.
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September 8, 2013

Calendar

Art Alix Bacon, George Bayliss and Laura Hart, 31st annual showing of artist-made prints, Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle. turtlegallery.com. Through Oct. 15. Jane Dahmen, “Through the Trees,” Gleason Fine Art, Portland. gleasonfineart.com. Through Sept. 28. “Wood, Water, Stone and Seed,” oil on panel still lifes and landscapes by Sean Beavers, Gleason Fine Art, Boothbay Harbor. […]

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Published
September 8, 2013

Book Review: Girl comes of age with help from Shadow

The young adult novel “Nothing But Blue” is disorienting from the first page, fueled in part by a kind of post-apocalyptic starkness in the language. The book opens with a young girl walking down an endless road, struggling to remember who she is, where she came from and what happened. She can’t even remember her […]
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September 8, 2013

Book Review: It’s a dystopia, but it’s still fun

Margaret Atwood pokes fun at our reality through the bleak future she's imagined in 'MaddAddam.'
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September 8, 2013

Dine Out Maine: It’s well worth the drive to refuel at Standard Gastropub

A restaurant in a Bridgton gas station? I had read about the relatively new Standard Gastropub, and while I tried to appreciate the concept from a distance, I admit to not getting it until I was standing there at the door. “Oh, OK,” I thought, staring from across the parking lot. “A restaurant in a […]
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September 8, 2013

Society Notebook: Mouth, meet South

Salvage BBQ garners glowing reviews at its pre-opening party.
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September 8, 2013

Author Q & A: Reality left behind for freedom in Paris

Susan Conley moves from her memoir about living in China and battling cancer to the choices that come with creating characters and plot.