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Arts & Entertainment

Published
September 2, 2012

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

Edited and Introduced by Wesley McNair, Maine Poet Laureate. Few contemporary poets have used the device of the symbol more effectively than Waterville poet Peter Harris has in “The Net.” Peter writes that the poem “comes from a particular event in my childhood, an early encounter with racism and my complicity in it, growing […]
Published
September 2, 2012

Ale’s good for the arts

Friends of the St. Lawrence Arts Center toast the support generated by a special Allagash brew.
Published
August 26, 2012

A good fight

Supporters of the work done by the Cancer Community Center get in the spirit for the upcoming Fight Back Festival.
Published
August 26, 2012

Arts Planner

This week • From 4 to 7 p.m. Friday, the Brick Store Museum, 117 Main St., Kennebunk, will host Heartwood College of Art’s “Paint the Bunk” art sale. A large group of artists, including DeWitt Hardy, Susan Wilder and Claudette Gamache, have painted or otherwise created original artwork depicting the beaches, blueberry plains, homes, churches […]
Published
August 26, 2012

Author Q & A: Creativity put into words

Poet Stuart Kestenbaum's essays in 'The View from Here' illuminate a writer's progression and the symbiosis of community and artistic process.

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Published
August 26, 2012

Bob Keyes: Mood(y) Music

The PSO conductor programs a 2012-13 season that features plenty of classics, but also shows his fun-loving side.
Published
August 26, 2012

Of summers and daydreams:Victoria Wulff’s Maine view

BOOTHBAY HARBOR — Paintings by New York City artist Victoria Wulff will be on view at the Studio 53 Fine Art Gallery, 53 Townsend Ave., Boothbay Harbor, beginning Wednesday. The show will remain on view through Sept. 24. A reception will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday. Wulff was lured to Boothbay Harbor […]
Published
August 26, 2012

Signings, etc.

MAX ALEXANDER
Published
August 26, 2012

Classical Beat: Understanding Mompou the composer, the man

By CHRISTOPHER HYDE My wife just bought me a five-CD set of the complete piano works of Federico Mompou for our anniversary. What makes it unusual is that the set, recorded in 1974, is played entirely by the composer, who was born in 1893. (It is no longer complete, since 80 more pieces were discovered after […]
Published
August 26, 2012

Dine Out Maine: White Cap for tourists and the Old Port office crowd

– Dining reviews practically write themselves when the experience is outstanding, and although less fun (since restaurants do represent a person’s livelihood), they are equally easy to compose when the experience involves a spectacular failure. The creative stumbling happens in the middle, when a meal is “meh.” Since “meh” does not translate as a technical […]