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Arts & Entertainment

Published
November 4, 2012

Painting for a Purpose benefit

The Portland-area arts organization Painting for a Purpose holds its annual fundraiser from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Grace Restaurant, 15 Chestnut St., Portland. This year, the group paired local artists with students to create colorful, whimsical wooden lobster boats and dories. Proceeds from the auction will be used to fund service learning grants […]
Published
November 4, 2012

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

This week’s column features Edward J. Reilly of Westbrook. In his moving poem, he is haunted by the rescue of an older brother in childhood.
Published
November 3, 2012

Bob Keyes: Why Maine awes artists

Superstorm Sandy provided a glimpse of what it is about the state -- the sounds, the smells, that light -- that has enticed generations of painters to come from away ... and stay.
Published
November 3, 2012

Theater Review: A deep look at relationships

“Homestead Crossing” brings the past, present, and future together with a supernatural twist.
Published
October 28, 2012

Dante reimagined in Mack’s paintings and sculpture

Round Pond painter and sculptor Kathleen Mack is known for exploring her eclectic interests, from the construction of the Bath bridge to the lyrics of Van Morrison’s “Madame George.” Her attention now is focussed on the images evoked in the “Commedia Del Arte.” The result is “The Inferno Show” which is on view at River […]

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Published
October 28, 2012

Art Review: Gorey exhibit is a major triumph

“Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey” is one of the most interesting and entertaining exhibitions of the year. It’s an impressively large show with about 180 drawings, objects and books featuring the work of one of America’s best loved artists, illustrators and writers — Edward Gorey (1925-2000) of Cape Cod. It might seem a […]
Published
October 28, 2012

Author Q & A: Near and ‘Deer’

The Maine connection to both an ancient Buddhist tale and a contemporary Indian school comes to light with the publication of 'The Radiant Deer.'
Published
October 28, 2012

Portland illustrator Scott Nash has been busy around town

The term might apply to both the author-illustrator and protagonist of a new book for young readers.
Published
October 28, 2012

Book Review: Russo ably lifts the curtain on his tangled family ties

Pulitzer Prize-winning Maine novelist Richard Russo has made a career of fictional storytelling. Not that his real life lacked for colorful people or places, but fiction would prove to be more malleable. He could reinvent the decaying mill town of his youth, recasting it as Empire Falls or Mohawk. Yet the relationship that dominated most […]
Published
October 28, 2012

Signings, etc.

Benjamin Busch