Arts & Entertainment

Published
June 23, 2013

Television: Remarkable ‘Mad Men’ season ends on Sunday

The sixth, and possibly next-to-last, season, of “Mad Men” ends with an episode titled “In Care Of,” for which the AMC site offers this description, reproduced here in full: “Don (Jon Hamm) has a problem.” Speculation has seeped into the information void — doubtless all of it wrong — ranging from the death of Don’s […]
Published
June 23, 2013

Signings, etc.

MARTHA WHITE
Published
June 23, 2013

U.S. films building links to China

Studios add Chinese elements to American movies because it offers a growing market.
Published
June 23, 2013

Mourning the loss of a true champion of the arts

Philip Isaacson’s clear voice will forever be irreplaceable, but it will never be truly gone. A half-century of articles cannot be unprinted or unread. The countless doors he opened for innumerable readers onto myriad artists, works and ideas cannot be closed. Isaacson, who died at age 89 Thursday, wrote about the arts for the Maine […]
Published
June 23, 2013

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

Over the years Thomas Carper of Cornish has published his accomplished sonnets in some of this country’s best literary magazines. Today’s sample links piano music at twilight with the art of Corot.

Published
June 22, 2013

Dine Out Maine: Car-hop service adds flavor to Cameron’s Lobster House

At Cameron’s Lobster House in Brunswick, you can eat inside at wooden booths, outside on the covered deck at wrought iron tables or — wait for it — in your car, 1950s car-hop style. Turn your lights on for service, and a waitress will emerge to take your order. This may be the only drive-in […]
Published
June 16, 2013

Classical Beat: Native American themes dominate music festival

Mic-Mac storyteller David Lonebear Sanipass and the Portland String Quartet will present an evening of Native American legends and examples of that influence and inspiration in chamber music.
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June 16, 2013

Book Review: Greenlaw’s toughest catch? A role as mother

In 2000, Linda Greenlaw’s spry nonfiction book, “The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain’s Journey,” was chosen as one of 100 distinguished books that best revealed the history of Maine and the life of its people. By including such a recent work along with proven classics including Sarah Orne Jewett’s “Country of the Pointed Firs” (1898) and […]
Published
June 16, 2013

Calendar

Art Philip Barter, new oil paintings and constructions in wood, Gleason Fine Art, Portland. gleasonfineart.com. Through June 29. “A Taste of Modernism — The William S. Paley Collection,” 62 works from the Paley Collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, through Sept. 8; “Shangaa: Art of Tanzania,” first major exhibition in the […]
Published
June 16, 2013

Author Q & A: Fish toil

In his book 'End of the Line,' Markham Starr chronicles the last days of the last working sardine cannery in Maine.

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