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August 12, 2012

Review: ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild’ strange, beautiful and hopeful

“The prettiest place on Earth” is how 6-year-old Hushpuppy (played by Quvenzhane Wallis) thinks of the Bathtub, a muddy, tiny island on the Mississippi Delta that’s just one levee away from being under water. In the distance, there’s some sort of industrial city, presumably New Orleans, where she sees smokestacks and electrical towers. At home, […]
Published
August 12, 2012

Book Review: ‘Hard work, a gun and a car’ prove to be plenty

In the quirky, fast-moving mystery “A Cop Story,” main character Henry Donovan is a high-ranking homicide investigator in the FBI’s Special Investigations Unit. The year is 1994, the tail end of an era before DNA breakthroughs and computer technology changed the way cops work. It was a time, author Patrick J. Ouellette explains in his […]
Published
August 9, 2012

Maine organic clothing line finalist in online contest

Yarmouth-based Arrowhead is one of 18 finalists chosen from more than 2,500 entries.
Published
August 5, 2012

Arts Planner

• Maine State Music Theatre in Brunswick opens its season finale, “42nd Street,” on Wednesday. The Tony Award-winning musical runs until Aug. 25 at Pickard Theater on the Bowdoin College campus, 1 Bath Road. Tickets are available online at msmt.org, by phone at 725-8769, and at the Pickard box office. Ticket prices range from $36 […]
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August 5, 2012

Bob Keyes: Biddeford exhibition explores LGBT art

BIDDEFORD – Kymara Lonergan greets a first-time visitor at the door of her gallery at North Dam Mill and warns, “There are some racy things in here.” She’s telling the truth. For the next several months, the Kymara Gallery in Biddeford is working in partnership with the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art to […]

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August 5, 2012

Portland Chamber Music Festival

The 2012 edition features a living medical miracle as well as the usual stacked lineup of chamber tunes, from classical to contemporary.
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August 5, 2012

Barnet’s special delivery: Art as a perpetual love letter

Will Barnet’s prints and drawings are so serenely perfect that they seem inevitable. You might think he reached out and grabbed the essence of his subject — pure and unadorned — and crystallized it into a picture. Of course, achieving such graceful clarity means there was nothing inevitable or simple about the process. It means […]
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August 5, 2012

Audience Calendar

Art “Art Sets the Table,” multifaceted art advocacy project with 32 plates designed to represent participating individuals, Constellation Gallery, Portland. constellationart.com. Through Aug. 7. “Two Visions,” paintings by Lenora Leibowitz and photo- graphs by Rita Spinella Olsen, 3Fish Gallery, Portland. 3fish gallery.com. Through Aug. 25. “Illustrated Passages,” Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset. maineartgallery.org. Artists chose a […]
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August 5, 2012

Early art in Portland: Tracing Homer’s legacy

As part of its Homer summer, the Portland Museum of Art presents “The Portland Society of Art: Winslow Homer’s Legacy in Maine” through Jan. 13. This exhibition examines the artistic relationship between Homer, his friend John Calvin Stevens and the early years of the Portland Society of Art, the precursor to the Portland Museum of […]
Published
August 5, 2012

Author Q&A: Light reading

When Whit Alexander wanted to sell a better battery in Africa, his skeptical brother Max decided to tag along and write about it.

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