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March 24, 2013

Midcoast to perform Brahms and Britten

TOPSHAM – The Midcoast Symphony Orchestra will perform under guest conductor Hiroya Miura at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Orion Performing Arts Center, 50 Republic Ave., Topsham. Tenor Jeffrey Hartman, accompanied by the orchestra, will perform Britten’s “Les Illuminations.” The orchestra will also perform Brahms’ Variations on a Theme by Haydn and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. […]
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March 24, 2013

Art Review: Treat yourself to a fine Mess at a fine young gallery space

Jonathan Mess is one of my favorite Maine artists. I have written about his work before, but I doubt I could cover all the ideas that his art puts into play even in a book. Yet the Mess show is my first mention of Westbrook’s Saccarappa Art Collective, which is headed toward its first anniversary […]
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March 24, 2013

Review: American hero exactly describes ‘Murph’

The most telling image about Navy SEAL Michael Murphy in the new documentary “Murph: The Protector” is a snippet of video from a high school football game. Murphy has just caught a pass near the other team’s goal line. He’s being tackled, but it’s not obvious that he’ll go down. But he has the presence […]
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March 24, 2013

American lit: How Edison changed the culture

The national character and its bold embrace of innovation found its spark in the birth of electricity, Ernest Freeberg's new book contends.
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March 24, 2013

In the Arts: At PMA, revisit – and interact with – 25 years of Architalx

Architalx is a phenomenon. An exercise in aesthetic elegance, it exists in a climate of its own making and high purpose. I applaud its intentions and its resilience in a state in which prevailing interest does not make for easy sustainment. If you’re still with me, you probably know that Architalx, which is represented in […]

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March 24, 2013

Review: Exploring the seamy side of spring break

Spring break: It’s every bit as much fun as you think it is. Until it isn’t. “Spring Breakers” is Harmony (“Gummo”) Korine’s fever-dream of something he never experienced — an orgy of sand, sin and snorting. And if his cameras — cellphone video inserts blur through the narrative — focus on pert bikini bottoms and […]
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March 24, 2013

Review: It’s a dark and stormy ‘Stoker’

There’s a suggestion of vampirism in the title of “Stoker.” The stylish chiller shares its name with Dracula’s author, but its fixation on blood moves in a different direction — deposits, not withdrawals. The tale concerns bad blood being transfused from one generation to the next. The blood relations in question are prim, privileged India […]
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March 24, 2013

Paging mystery lovers: Try these

New works by authors Peter May and Erin Hart are close neighbors.
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March 24, 2013

Book Review: Poet’s work shares how torn family shaped him

Near the end of his extraordinary memoir, “The Words I Chose: A Memoir of Family and Poetry,” award-winning Maine Poet Laureate Wesley McNair states, “Poets are menders of broken things.” McNair is noted for his poetry about “broken New England” and the brokenness of his childhood, in having a father who abandoned the family and […]
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March 24, 2013

Signings, etc.: W. Jeffrey Bolster

Professor W. Jeffrey Bolster will speak about his book, “The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail.” Since the time of the Vikings, the Atlantic has shaped the lives of people who depend on it for survival and those people have shaped the Atlantic. In his account of this interdependency, Bolster, a […]

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