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August 19, 2012

Movie review: Animated ‘ParaNorman’ delightfully spooky, edgy

Norman, the young hero of the animated delight “ParaNorman,” hears dead people. He sees them, too. So there’s no sense trying to comfort him because you think he’s missing his dead grandma too much. “Grandma’s in a better place.” “In the LIVING room?” Since Norman has grown up in Blithe Hollow, a town with a […]
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August 19, 2012

Audience Calendar

Art “Two Visions,” paintings by Lenora Leibowitz and photo- graphs by Rita Spinella Olsen, 3Fish Gallery, Portland. 3fish gallery.com. Through Saturday. “Illustrated Passages,” Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset. maineartgallery.org. Artists chose a piece of text to accompany their art. Ends Sunday. “The Draw of the Normandy Coast (1860–1960),” European and American paintings and works on paper, […]
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August 19, 2012

Art Review: Geometrical abstraction at its brilliant best

By DANIEL KANY Although not traditionally considered a Maine strong point, two of the best shows I have seen this year feature geometrical abstraction: Duane Paluska’s “New Paintings and Sculpture” at Icon Contemporary Art in Brunswick, and Ken Greenleaf’s “Intercept” at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport. It’s fascinating that the pictorial work […]
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August 19, 2012

Opera House Arts celebrates lives of ‘The Millay Sisters’

STONINGTON – This year marks the centennial of the Stonington Opera House, as well as the 100th anniversary of “Renascence,” one of the most famous and award-winning poems by Maine poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. In celebration of this shared milestone, Opera House Arts brings an original musical production, “The Millay Sisters: A Cabaret,” to […]
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August 19, 2012

Movie Review: Pair of creative duos ignite ‘Sparks’

Their sharp observations about couplehood and a series of surprises give the movie some extra sizzle.

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August 19, 2012

Plans in motion

At a fundraising gala, Portland Ballet offers sneak peeks of some of this year's upcoming shows.
Published
August 19, 2012

Signings, etc.

DAVID ROSENFELT
Published
August 12, 2012

Review: Actors bring A-games to ‘Hope Springs’

You’ve never seen Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones quite like this. As old marrieds facing “intensive” couples counseling over their comatose sexual relationship, two of America’s finest screen actors are by turns silly, befuddled, awkward and confused. And “Hope Springs,” the new comedy from the director of “The Devil Wears Prada” and scripted by […]
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August 12, 2012

Art Review: Among the many at Stable, clay bubbles to the top

Art galleries come in all shapes and sizes. But somewhere in the last century, we all sort of tacitly agreed that an art gallery was a clean, well-lighted space in which one could usually expect to find work that would relate to itself in some sort of series by a single artist. Damariscotta’s Stable Gallery […]
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August 12, 2012

Arts Planner for Aug. 12

• Maine photographer Peter Ralston is showing some of his favorite photographs about 20 feet from Rockport Harbor, in the harbormaster’s office. Ralston and harbormaster Abbie Leonard collaborated on the project, which covers the walls of the building on the west side of the harbor. The exhibition includes an image of this year’s Camden fireworks […]

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