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Published
February 9, 2013

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

Edna St. Vincent Millay, who grew up in Rockport, wrote some of the great sonnets of our literature. For Valentine’s week, here’s one of her best-known and most moving.
Published
February 3, 2013

Art Review: Diverse print show poses edgy questions

Print shows, for some reason, are dotting the Maine landscape. No one has been more active in mounting print shows recently than Bruce Brown, curator emeritus of the Center for Maine Contemporary Art. His “Prints: Breaking Boundaries” at the Portland Public Library is a good show. But it’s also an important show, although a casual […]
Published
February 3, 2013

Dine Out Maine: Food surprises at comfortable, fun Montsweag Roadhouse

About a year ago, a friend pulled me aside and claimed that Montsweag Roadhouse served the best fish tacos anywhere. This kind of comment requires investigation. And so my frequent drive-bys finally became a stop-in-and-dine. From the outside, Montsweag Roadhouse looks the same as it did 30 or so years ago, when it was Montsweag […]
Published
February 3, 2013

Book Review: Mystery, oddities of island off Texas

Tales of misfortune and descriptive writing drive Elizabeth Black's novel.
Published
February 3, 2013

Book Review: Novelist takes new tack with sailing memoir

After reading the cover hype about novelist Stuart Woods’ nonfiction “Blue Water, Green Skipper: A Memoir of Sailing Alone Across the Atlantic,” I almost took a pass on reviewing it. Consider this flap boast: The author “had never owned more than a ten foot plywood dinghy, when he decided to take on one of the […]

Published
February 3, 2013

Typewriters making a return

It’s an Apple/HP world out there, and yet ... among a small but growing number of key players, names like Olivetti and Underwood are PC once again. Word.
Published
February 3, 2013

Signings, etc.

BILL ROORBACH
Published
February 3, 2013

Society Notebook: Slam dunk

Scores turn out when the Red Claws host Business After Hours.
Published
February 3, 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 […]
Published
February 3, 2013

Farnsworth to unveil ‘American Treasures’

ROCKLAND – The Farnsworth Art Museum’s upcoming exhibition season will include a complete re-installation of almost every gallery for the presentation of “American Treasures: The Best of the Farnsworth Collection.” The 2013 season will also include a major N.C. Wyeth exhibition, as well as smaller shows featuring works by Andrew Wyeth and Jonathan Fisher. On […]

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