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September 16, 2012

Dine Out Maine: For food and view far above the ordinary, Robert’s Maine Grill

My husband and I discovered Robert’s Maine Grill in Kittery on Labor Day as we traveled back from Massachusetts. We were looking for a place to eat along Route 1, contentedly driving in the opposite direction of backed-up tourists. But some of those drivers had the same idea — out-of-state cars took up half the […]
Published
September 16, 2012

TV: It’s a new season and a new love interest on ‘Boardwalk’

NEW YORK — For the first two seasons of “Boardwalk Empire,” romance was elusive for Enoch “Nucky” Thompson. He rules Atlantic City, N.J., as its city father, major-domo mobster and, with this HBO drama set in Prohibition days, its reigning bootlegger. But never mind all that. Nucky (played by unlikely leading man Steve Buscemi) wants […]
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September 16, 2012

Movie Review: Murky, but ‘Nemo’ in 3-D still delights

The Oscar-winning animated feature “Finding Nemo” doesn’t need to fish for compliments: Newly rereleased in 3-D, the 9-year-old Disney/ Pixar marvel about a single-father clown fish searching for his son is a welcome sight on the big screen, where you can feel the undiminished immensity of the ocean and the bulk of a whale in […]
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September 16, 2012

Signings, etc.

Joanne Dobson
Published
September 16, 2012

Scene & Heard: Star Quality

Celebrating the marriage of business and the arts at a gala party in Portland, Maine Creative Industries bestows its inaugural award on actress Glenn Close and her real-life husband, Idexx founder David Shaw.

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September 16, 2012

Book Review: ‘A Life in Letters’ adds another layer to Chamberlain

“Joshua L. Chamberlain: A Life in Letters,” a handsomely produced volume introduced and edited by seasoned Civil War scholars James McPherson and Maine’s own Thomas Desjardin, provides some 250 previously unpublished communications relating to the state’s most celebrated fighting general. They are nicely annotated, indexed and backed by fine illustrations. The bulk of the letters […]
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September 16, 2012

Art Review: ‘Beautiful Possibility’ show entertains, provokes thought

“Americanitis comes from an intense desire to git thar and an awful fear that you cannot.” — From the Philistine, New York Times, 1897 Do you suffer from Americanitis? San Francisco artist Alison Pebworth’s traveling show of paintings and more — “Beautiful Possibility,” currently at Space Gallery in Portland — can help you with that […]
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September 16, 2012

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

Patricia Ranzoni of Bucksport has been writing and publishing poetry about people and places in rural Maine for many years. She explains that today’s poem followed the “shocking generosity of a distinguished elder,” offered “at a time when health troubles loomed.” That generosity taught her, she says, to listen to her heart “for brave ways to say what feels inexpressible.”
Published
September 15, 2012

Winslow Homer: Making waves in the art world

The Portland Museum of Art has gathered 38 of Homer's works – all made at his studio on Prouts Neck – for a once-in-a-lifetime show.
Published
September 9, 2012

Fall TV preview of new network shows

What have the network minds dreamed up this time? Like it or not, we're about to find out.

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