Arts & Entertainment

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March 10, 2013

USM professor has David Bowie covered

Shelton Waldrep has been teaching a seminar on David Bowie, who is releasing his first album in 10 years on Tuesday.
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March 10, 2013

Book Review: That fly on a wall has a racy, droll voice

Rebecca Miller gives a housefly a leading role, and Jacob handles it well.
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March 10, 2013

Classical Beat: Through movement, choreographer tells a soldier’s story

Nell Shipman, choreographer and associate artistic director of the Portland Ballet, never ceases to surprise. She combines a thorough grasp of classical ballet with innovative postures, sequences and combinations reminiscent of modern dance. The result is ballet that enhances the effect of the music while telling a story so graphically that words are unnecessary. I […]
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March 10, 2013

Dine Out Maine: You can’t see Italy from here, but you can certainly taste it

Like George Lazenby as James Bond, a response to Ribollita is apt to be “Right, I remember that one. It’s good.” Rustic, cozy and date night: These are other immediate word associations for a spot that, despite being part of Portland’s old guard restaurant establishment, has flown low under the culinary radar lately. Ribollita’s first […]
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March 10, 2013

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

How could a prisoner who suddenly achieved the freedom he long desired become so disconsolate that he committed suicide? Robin Merrill, of Madison, explores this question, making us think again about the meanings of freedom and confinement.

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March 10, 2013

Society Notebook: Show Stoppers

Mainers attending the perennially popular Portland Flower Show are treated to a welcome taste of spring.
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March 3, 2013

Book Review: ‘Bailey’ a fine Revolutionary War-era biography

The title of James S. Leamon’s superb new biography, “The Reverend Jacob Bailey, Maine Loyalist: For God, King, Country and For Self,” is accurate, though the word order of the subtitle may be open to rearrangement for some. Parson Bailey (1731-1808) always held himself in high esteem, but almost certainly would have liked the subtitle […]
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March 3, 2013

Readers Pick the Oscars Results: A few good pickers

Only two entrants in our annual Readers Pick the Oscars poll guess all six of the top winners.
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March 3, 2013

Author Q & A: A fighting chance

Wayne's Betsy Connor Bowen sees her father's manuscript – a memoir of serving alongside the British in Africa during World War II – published.
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March 3, 2013

Calendar

Art Lisa Dombek, mixed media/white series, Katie Made Bakery, Portland. 771-0994. Through March 30. 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. […]

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