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February 17, 2013

Art Review: ‘Flat Earth’ scores visually, falls a bit flat on message

I have very mixed feelings about “This Flat Earth / Esta Tierra Plana” at Rose Contemporary in Portland. On one hand, it’s an exciting concept show featuring works by artists from Maine and Spain. Yet the show takes its lead from Thomas Friedman’s book “The World Is Flat,” in which the free-trade advocating author supports […]
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February 17, 2013

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

The distinguished author Robert Siegel of South Berwick, a writer of award-winning fiction and some of this state’s best poetry, died last December. But his poems live on, including this one. Robert once said of “Airfield” that it dates back to the days of the Cold War, “when the U.S. and Russia kept nuclear-armed planes in the air round the clock” – planes he saw from his window, landing and taking off at a nearby air base. “One day,” he said, “it struck me that they were like Satan in Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost,’ ‘the wounded god circling the globe, never resting.’ ” His poem reminds us that all these years later, as we carry on with our everyday lives, the reality of war continues.
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February 10, 2013

Society Notebook: A leg up

That's what the Dancing with the Realtors event is ultimately all about -- helping to give a low-income family a chance at home ownership.
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February 10, 2013

Book Review: A story of struggles after lives fall apart

Karen E. Bender's book is dotted with discussions of love, faith and belonging.
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February 10, 2013

Art Review: Brilliant show a study in conceptual depth

The iconic shape of Maine combines the practical and the abstract. We have both the land’s natural boundaries, such as the coastline and rivers, and then we have the straight lines drawn by men on maps. Modernism in art could be defined as the aggressive introduction of map and diagram logic — flat and based […]

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February 10, 2013

Dine Out Maine: Buck’s Naked has great barbecue, any way you spell it

Barbecue or BBQ? Spell check says both are correct. Having lived in South Carolina, I understand that Southern enthusiasts take barbecue nuance (even spelling) very seriously. New Englanders do too. Did you know there is a New England Barbecue Society with cooking classes and barbecue judging lessons? (Note to self: sign up at www.nebs.org.) Luckily, […]
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February 10, 2013

Calendar

Art “Between Past and Present: The Homer Studio Photographic Project,” contemporary photography made with historic processes, through Feb. 17; 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 […]
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February 10, 2013

Bob Keyes: Call it the Blanco boom. Or bloom

The Richard Blanco literary event that is happening in Portland on Feb. 26 is a Maine success story from every angle. It’s an example of a community coming together to celebrate the success of an individual, and it started because one individual believed strongly it had to happen and was willing to work hard to […]
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February 10, 2013

Movie Review: Characters lose their punch early in ‘Identity Thief’

“Oooh, honey, less is more,” the flamboyant hair stylist whispers, out of earshot, at Diana (Melissa McCarthy) as she bombs her head with hairspray and trowels on the eye shadow. That’s never the case with McCarthy, the bawdy, rude, larger-than-life comic whose big movie break was “Bridesmaids.” She riffs, tosses back belts of booze and […]
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February 10, 2013

Author Q&A: Great ‘Promise’

Maine native Priscille Sibley's acclaimed debut tells the story of a family trying to decide the fate of their comatose – and pregnant – loved one.

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