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January 6, 2013

Bob Keyes: Every picture will tell a story

Summer is for reading, but Maine winters seem particularly hospitable for ordering our thoughts and committing them to paper. It’s a season of staying home, stoking the fire and accomplishing some serious writing. The Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance gives us incentive to sharpen our pencils this winter with summer reading in mind. The alliance […]
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January 6, 2013

Book Review: Lives of affliction, tempered by resolve

Be prepared for a powerful rendition of the African-American experience.
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January 6, 2013

Niche Carved

Dorothy Schwartz has spent her artistic career refining her skill as a maker of prints – especially woodcuts. A retrospective of that work goes up at the Maine Jewish Museum.
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January 6, 2013

New at PMA: Six decades of artist Lois Dodd

PORTLAND — Lois Dodd is best known for painting the world around her, from her apartment windows in New York City to the woods and gardens of Maine and New Jersey. The Portland Museum of Art opens a new exhibition, “Lois Dodd: Catching the Light,” next week that explores the career of the painter and […]
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January 6, 2013

Author Q &A: Peace of the Past

A largely untold chapter of Nazi-occupied Belgium – and of one family's history – combine in Maine writer Walter W. Bannon's new book.

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January 6, 2013

Signings, etc.

NORMAN BEAUPRE
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January 6, 2013

Dine out Maine: Tao takes you on a heavenly journey, one small plate at a time

Imagine steamed pork buns that rival those at an excellent dim sum spot in a large city but right here in Maine. Maybe those soft, sweet, meat-filled, edible pillows already dance in your head, like sugarplums. That’s no illusion. That’s Grandma Tang’s roast pork buns ($6.80 for three), arriving hot and steamy in a bamboo […]
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January 6, 2013

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

The poet Jorie Graham once wrote that a memory for a poet is an experience that has not yet been fully lived and waits for its second life in poetry. In today’s poem Pam Burr, of Brunswick, relives the memory of sandwiches that her mother once prepared for her school lunch. Sandwiches By Pam Burr […]
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December 30, 2012

Book Review: A lighthouse tome that actually dazzles

How does one begin to describe “From Guiding Lights to Beacons for Business: The Many Lives of Maine’s Lighthouses” with its myriad dazzle and deep content? Perhaps as a happily over-stuffed scrapbook of ephemera enfolding chapter-essays by 10 of the region’s finest, most articulate scholars. Whatever one decides to call it, “From Guiding Lights” is […]
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December 30, 2012

Calendar

Art “Weatherbeaten: Winslow Homer and Maine,” 35 major oils and watercolors, Portland Museum of Art. portlandmuseum.org. Ends Sunday. “Between Past and Present: The Homer Studio Photographic Project,” contemporary photography made with historic processes, Portland Museum of Art. portlandmuseum.org. Through Feb. 17. “The Portland Society of Art and Winslow Homer’s Legacy in Maine,” exploring the artistic […]

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