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March 17, 2013

Book Review: A delight to have detective in action

John Rebus is not ready for retirement from Ian Rankin's crime novels.
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March 17, 2013

Dine Out Maine: At LFK, name is elusive, but food is easy to love

It’s 5 p.m. on a Saturday, and outdoors around Longfellow Square in Portland, the snow-spitting night is redolent with savory food in the first throes of browning. Which high-quality restaurant is it from — Petite Jacqueline, Boda, Local 188, Pai Men Mayaki? It’s early, so a few of these aren’t serving yet. We duck into […]
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March 17, 2013

Bagpipes and drums come to Portland

Throughout their history, bagpipes have been linked by definition with the fighting Scots — first the Highlanders who invented them, then the Scottish regiments of the United Kingdom. That military spirit will be evident Sunday afternoon at the Cumberland County Civic Center, when the pipes, drums and Highland dancers of the Black Watch (officially, the […]
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March 17, 2013

Bowdoin College Museum of Art presents works of Danish artist

BRUNSWICK — Bowdoin College Museum of Art will present the first American retrospective of one of Europe’s most distinguished contemporary painters, Danish artist Per Kirkeby, March 26 through July 14 at the museum of art, 9400 College Station. Kirkeby is a painter, sculptor, geologist, filmmaker and writer whose career spans 40 years. The major retrospective […]
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March 17, 2013

Calendar

Art Lois Dodd: “Catching the Light,” career retrospective — 1955-2012 — for the Maine painter, through April 7; and “Voices of Design” — 25 Years of Architalx, interactive exhibition that showcases the power of design, through May 19, Portland Museum of Art. portlandmuseum.org. “Malaga Island: Fragmented Lives,” historic photographs, documents, artifacts and first-person accounts, Maine […]

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March 17, 2013

Doing Farmington proud

The Emery, the performance and gallery space on the UMF campus, has been a game changer for western Maine.
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March 17, 2013

Author Q & A: dot.crime

A new book by York's J.A. Hitchcock offers horror stories of cyber misdeeds.
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March 17, 2013

Society Notebook: Just dishy

It was a foodie’s delight this past Sunday night as Maine Restaurant Week culminated another successful year with its Bartender and Pastry Chef Competition, hosted by Prime Mercedes-Benz in Scarborough. “We are happy to do this,” said Ira Rosenberg of Prime Motor Group, gesturing to the crowd of 500 food and drink aficionados, revelers and […]
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March 17, 2013

Windham High alum makes name for himself in show-biz world

Lawrence Manchester is a sound man extraordinaire, and he's got a Grammy to prove it.
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March 17, 2013

Signings, etc.

COLIN SARGENT

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