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Arts & Entertainment

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June 30, 2013

Movies: Explosive action is very real in ‘White House Down’

Instead of computer-generated images, the film relies heavily on life-size sets to create its mayhem.
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June 30, 2013

Home is where the art is for Cathie Pelletier

The author has come back to her roots in far-northern Maine to live ... and write.
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June 30, 2013

Movies: In ‘The East,’ line between good and bad becomes blurry

Brit Marling, who played a cult leader claiming to be a prophetess from the future in “Sound of My Voice,” takes a look at the other side of the equation in “The East,” an audacious thriller about a cultish gang of anarchists who set out to punish those poisoning the planet and the people on […]
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June 30, 2013

Art Review: Lose yourself at sea … at Elizabeth Moss

At first glance, “Surface, Light and Structure” looks like a particularly strong show of sea-oriented landscapes. The technical term for this kind of painting is “marine,” but it has always felt to me like an insufficient word. This show at Elizabeth Moss Galleries in Falmouth is a reminder about how complex, interesting and important this […]
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June 30, 2013

Author Q&A: Place value

In his new book, Andrew Carroll ferrets outs unmarked spots across the country where big, historic things happened – including one in Portland.

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June 30, 2013

Renowned woodcut artist on display

New England artist Barbara Putnam shows her woodcuts in the continuing exhibition “Printmakers in Conversation” at PhoPa Gallery, 132 Washington Ave., Portland. The exhibition is on view through Aug. 10; Putnam will discuss her work at 5:30 p.m. July 11. Putnam has been making woodcut prints since the third grade. After printing her first carving, she was hooked […]
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June 30, 2013

Book Review: ‘One of Them’ may read familiar

Elliott Holt's new novel unfolds on a note that's evocative of the Samantha Smith story.
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June 30, 2013

Signings, etc.

DAVID S. SWANSON
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June 30, 2013

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

In this week’s poem Patricia Ranzoni of Bucksport finds what she calls 'generational presences and absences' in a rural Maine house.
Published
June 23, 2013

Book Review: Civil War generals were riddled with flaws

“Howeffer did zey vin!” mutters a German guest at Faulty Towers, staring down upon the hapless and prostrate Basil Faulty at the end of that British series’ classic, “The Germans.” I found myself repeating it like a mantra as I plowed through Diane Monroe Smith’s “Command Conflicts in Grant’s Overland Campaign: Ambition and Animosity in […]