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July 15, 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,” small oil sketches, Portland Museum of Art. portlandmuseum.org. Through Sept. 30 “Art Is Community II,” show and sale […]
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July 15, 2012

Book Review: Detective story ‘Sunset’ delivers action-packed punch

John Bekker is a former police detective morphed into a hopeless drunk. His near-instant addiction to alcohol happened 10 years earlier when his wife was raped and murdered in their home. His daughter — traumatized by the terrible event she witnessed at age 5 — lives in a special home where she hasn’t spoken or […]
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July 15, 2012

Bob Keyes: Fenix returns Bard to nature’s place

Slow and steady hardly describes the growth of the Fenix Theatre Co. Meteoric might be more apt. The Portland-based theater troupe begins its fifth season of free outdoor Shakespeare this week with a production of “Macbeth.” As it has in the past, Rob Cameron and his groundlings will present a fast-paced, truncated version of a […]
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July 15, 2012

Book Review: Olympic hopefuls, on bikes and off

In Chris Cleave's 'Gold,' the challenges of life and elite athletics must coexist.
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July 15, 2012

Classical Beat: Orchestras should focus on music, not ‘younger crowd’ gimmicks

When asked why he robbed banks, Willie Sutton famously replied, “because that’s where the money is.” The quote popped up while I was doing some reading about why (or whether) audiences for classical music have been declining generally, and particularly in Maine. One of the writers on the subject pointed out that except for the current recession, […]

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July 15, 2012

Painter’s show at UNE takes a colorful look at reflections

BIDDEFORD — Through July, Sarah Gorham will present “Meditation on Reflection” at the University of New England Campus Center Gallery on the Biddeford campus. The exhibition features a collection of acrylics on paper exploring colorful interpretations of the water’s edge. The series is a 20-plus-year investigation of painted water reflections. The works were created using […]
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July 15, 2012

Signings, etc.: Philip Hoose

National Book Award-winner and Portland author Philip Hoose will be at Longfellow Books to talk about and sign his new book, “Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95.” The book is about the small rufa red knot shorebird known as B95, which makes an 18,000-mile migratory circuit from the bottom of […]
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July 15, 2012

Dine Out Maine: The Osprey gives coastal summer dining a creative edge

A local treasure has a new chef whose skillfully prepared offerings include both the expected and the experimental.
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July 15, 2012

Art Review: Tom Crotty handles the Mainescape like few others

One of Tom Crotty’s paintings in his Frost Gully Gallery in Thomaston is a view of the Orr’s Island bridge. It is highly detailed and realistic. And it’s beautifully painted. Superficially, it looks like a Rackstraw Downes painting, insofar as it’s a technically superb landscape with a few active lines delineating the human presence, such […]
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July 15, 2012

Author Q&A: Waters’ edge

In his new book, Matt Rigney uses tales of his adventures sport fishing to help form a plea for conservation of the world's imperiled oceans.

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