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May 12, 2013

Calendar: Your Arts and Entertainment Guide

Art Philip Barter, new oil paintings and constructions in wood, Gleason Fine Art, Portland. gleasonfineart.com. Through June 29. “Voices of Design — 25 Years of Architalx,” interactive exhibition that showcases the power of design, through May 19; “Blueberry Rakers,” photographs by David Brooks Stess, through May 19; “A Taste of Modernism — The William S. […]
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May 12, 2013

Book Review: Doctor’s story gets to heart of chosen limits

Laura Warren is a radiologist in a small coastal Maine hospital. Always overjoyed when cancer isn’t found in her patients, she lives a quiet life of metastasized grief and regret that she hides from everyone, especially her husband, Dan, and Ben and Sally, her teenage son and daughter. Bright, extremely well read and a native […]
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May 12, 2013

In the Arts: Marshall finds more than just function in a paper bag

An old saw has it that the Visual Arts Center at Bowdoin is the box in which the College’s Museum of Art arrived in. Aside from the fact that the Center is junior to the Museum by about 85 years and aside from the fact that it pits Edward Larrabee Barnes, the Center’s designer and […]
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May 12, 2013

Signings, etc.: Jeff Foltz

Camden resident and author Jeff Foltz will sign copies of his new novel, “Two Men Ten Suns” and his award-winning novel, “Birkebeiner, A Story of Motherhood and War.” Foltz’s latest work is set during World War II and follows the lives of an American scientist and a Japanese officer, each battling his obsessions and flaws […]
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May 12, 2013

Tears of a clown: Comedian Julie Goell evolves with illness

What happens when a gifted physical comedian, in a cruel twist of fate, finds her motor skills being taken away by Parkinson's? If it's Julie Goell, she evolves. And keeps her sense of humor.

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May 12, 2013

Dine Out Maine: With Vietnamese soup, or pho, it’s all about the broth

There are so many newish Asian restaurants in Cumberland County that reviewing them all would stretch into winter. For this column, I thought I’d concentrate on one traditional Vietnamese dish, a bowl of pho, at a few of them to see how they compared. Pho is a traditional noodle soup of Vietnam, a comforting bowl […]
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May 12, 2013

Book Review: Woman’s loneliness, anger prove gripping

Midway through “The Woman Upstairs,” Claire Messud’s spellbinding, psychologically acute and deliberately claustrophobic new novel, a character explains to the first-person protagonist how our view of a story is framed by the way it begins. There’s no forgetting how 42-year-old Nora Eldridge begins her account of life as the woman upstairs — that characteristically “quiet […]
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May 12, 2013

Movie Review: Carey Mulligan fits well as object of desire in ‘Gatsby’

When Daisy Buchanan attends a party at Jay Gatsby’s mansion in the new film version of “The Great Gatsby,” she’s wearing a crystal-coated chandelier dress by Prada and a drool-worthy pearl and diamond headpiece by Tiffany. The look is the glamour of the Jazz Age personified. Such costumes were a big help to Carey Mulligan, […]
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May 12, 2013

Show is hip, elegant, conceptually edgy

‘Surface Tension” makes a curatorial case about why Space Gallery in Portland has been looking particularly good for the past year or two. The works are by local artists whose work I have mostly seen before. But in this show, organized by erstwhile Bowdoin curator Diana Tuite, their conceptual edginess and a hip-but-grown-up elegance help […]
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May 12, 2013

Society Notebook: Using imagination for kids

Creative fundraising helps to keep the fun and learning going at the Children's Museum & Theatre of Maine.

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