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July 14, 2013

Bob Keyes: Take a bow, Mr. Kaplan

BRUNSWICK — The news could hardly be considered shocking. After all, Lewis Kaplan is the only artistic director the Bowdoin International Music Festival has ever had. He helped establish the festival, nursed it through infancy and raised it to become one of the most highly regarded classical musical festivals in the world. Each summer, 250 […]
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July 14, 2013

Slaid Cleaves is a travelin’ man

Every year about this time, singer-songwriter Slaid Cleaves hits the road from his home in Texas -- destination Maine -- performing and renewing acquaintances all along the way.
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July 14, 2013

Book Review: Two to fortify your history shelf

“The Forts of Maine: Silent Sentinels of the Pine Tree State,” by Harry Gratwick, and “Wiscasset and Its Times: Stories of Maine’s Prettiest Village.” by Phil Di Vece, are two volumes that should not be overlooked in the rising tide of Maine-related material. Neither is scholarly nor particularly rigorous, though each is fun to read, […]
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July 14, 2013

Art Review: Bowdoin reaffirms the place of Prendergast

The most important figure in the landmark exhibition “Maurice Prendergast: By the Sea” just might be a little goat standing by a pair of fancy ladies in Prendergast’s “The Idlers.” The goat shifts the painting from a snapshot of early century fashionable leisure to philosophical commentary about society. Filling in for a satyr, Prendergast’s goat […]
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July 14, 2013

Movie Review: Del Toro makes monsters cool in ‘Rim’

“Pacific Rim,” the latest jaw-dropper from director Guillermo del Toro (“Pan’s Labyrinth,” “The Devil’s Backbone,” “Hellboy”), contains some of the wildest, giddiest sights of any movie this summer — building-sized robots fighting enormous creatures from beneath the sea to the death, their brawls sometimes demolishing entire cities. This combination of Godzilla-style kaiju (giant monster movies) […]

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July 14, 2013

Television: HBO’s overhyped ‘Newsroom’ deserving of another shot

As season two of the HBO series “The Newsroom” gets under way on Sunday, the lawyers have arrived at the headquarters of the fictitious cable news network ACN. Lead attorney Rebecca Halliday (Marcia Gay Harden), who will represent ACN staffers in a wrongful-termination lawsuit, has nothing particularly optimistic to offer the condemned — not that […]
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July 14, 2013

Society Notebook: Multiple Choice

Down East honors the many exceptional winners of its Best of Maine awards.
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July 14, 2013

Signings, etc.

SIX MAINE POETS TO RECITE
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July 14, 2013

Movie Review: ‘Grown Ups 2’ about like ‘1,’ only far less funny

War, plague, pestilence, famine, tornadoes, drought, head lice, cold corn dogs, the fourth hour of the “Today” show, that Train song where the guy sings about wanting a two-ply hefty bag — all of these things are far, far worse than “Grown Ups 2.” And yet sitting through this deluded, directionless, relentlessly puerile comedy somehow […]
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July 14, 2013

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

Bethel’s Richard Blanco, who read his poetry at President Obama’s second inauguration last January, will appear at the Strand Theatre in Rockland on July 17. In today’s column he offers a love poem.

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