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Published
August 26, 2012

Book Review: ‘Paterno’ offers few answers

Joe Posnanski moved to State College, Pa., to write a much different book. Posnanski imagined his biography of Penn State University’s heralded head football coach, Joe Paterno, would be about the man who, as Posnanski noted in a recent USA Today column, “always said that winning wasn’t what mattered. And yet, he won more games […]
Published
August 26, 2012

Audience Calendar

Art “The Draw of the Normandy Coast (1860–1960),” European and American paintings and works on paper, Portland Museum of Art. 775-6148; portlandmuseum.org. Through Sept. 3. “Maine Sublime: Frederic Edwin Church’s Landscapes of Mount Desert and Mount Katahdin,” Portland Museum of Art. portlandmuseum.org. Through Sept. 30. Duane Paluska, new paintings and sculpture, Icon Contemporary Art, Brunswick. […]
Published
August 26, 2012

Book Review: New focus on Maine’s most famous sea battle

“Two of the most remarkable aspects of the maritime war of 1812 were the extraordinarily high casualty rate among officers on both sides of the conflict and the mass of recorded anecdotal evidence pointing toward an equally high incidence of magnanimous behavior on the part of the same officers toward their opposite numbers in the […]
Published
August 26, 2012

Art Review: See Wegman in all his waggishness

“Hello Nature” is an elaborate production dedicated to reinventing William Wegman. It is an artistic midlife crisis writ large. First appearing as a 1970s deadpan-punning conceptual artist, Wegman is best known for photographs of Weimaraner dogs. “Hello Nature” is an ode to the artist’s connections to Maine through photos, paintings and drawings. It is a […]
Published
August 19, 2012

Book Review: Readers of Deans book can ride out the storm at home

Here’s a question for you: Would you rather be a 13-year-old boy riding the bus from Portland to New Jersey on a snow-filled night, or be snug at home with a book by Maine writer Sis Deans of Gorham that will take the trip for you, generously filling it with teenage angst, insight and adventure? […]

Published
August 19, 2012

Arts Planner

This week • Fresh off its successful run of the Red Sox version of “Damn Yankees,” the Ogunquit Playhouse opens its next show of the summer this week with Dolly Parton’s “9 To 5: The Musical.” This production is based on the movie about three office workers and their plan to get even with their […]
Published
August 19, 2012

Dine Out Maine: After hundreds of dishes sampled, these rise to the top

In this column, my co-reviewer, Shonna Milliken Humphrey, and I seek to discover and communicate what makes a restaurant special or unique. That’s why you’ll seldom find us reviewing the chains. After personally logging just over 50 reviews for this newspaper, I thought it was time to highlight a few things that we’ve found particularly […]
Published
August 19, 2012

Author Q & A: Roads scholar

Ann Rockefeller Roberts wrote the book -- and has now revised it -- telling the story of Acadia National Park's carriage roads.
Published
August 19, 2012

Snap judgment

Photographer Samantha Appleton always looks for that intimate, one-of-a-kind image, whether as a foreign correspondent in bombed-out Baghdad or as a White House photographer in an elevator with the Obamas.
Published
August 19, 2012

Book Review: A case for Child as ‘cultural guerrilla’

The author's portrait of the celebrity cook looks at her place in American history.

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