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February 19, 2012

Book Review: The divine is in the details of Bailey Island memoir

Some years ago, Janet Freeman Baribeau’s then-10-year-old granddaughter, Jessika Hyde, wrote to her wanting to know more about her early life and the family history to which they both belonged. “That was the beginning of my quest,” says Baribeau, who lives in Brunswick. “A Bailey Island Girl Remembers” is the result. Baribeau’s creation, which she […]
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February 19, 2012

Dine Out Maine: The Rack, Carrabassett Valley

The Rack is a rousing spot for questionable locals and wannabes
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February 19, 2012

Audience Calendar

Art Michael Bell-Smith, lo-fi environments exhibit, Maine College of Art (Institute of Contemporary Art), Portland. 699-5029. Through March 14. Artist lecture, 6 p.m. Saturday Juried student exhibition, University of Southern Maine (Woodbury Campus Center), Portland. usm.maine.edu/gallery. Ends today. Tanja Alexia Hollander: “Are You Really My Friend?”, Hollander’s photographs of her Facebook friends, Portland Museum of […]
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February 19, 2012

Movie Review: Close understatedly steals the show in ‘Albert Nobbs’

Glenn Close is very still in her latest film — quiet, never cracking a smile. Playing a member of the staff of an upper crust Dublin hotel in the late 19th century, the idea was to be invisible. Think of people “in service,” the butlers and maids of “Downton Abbey” or “The Remains of the […]
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February 19, 2012

Art Review: Contrasting styles happily converge at Elizabeth Moss

Deborah Randall rather backed into painting Maine landscapes. She had been making content-oriented contemporary paintings with wildly varied subjects, but her ability to paint was strong, and a trip to Italy forced her not only to look at the landscape but see it in terms of painting. After the trip, Randall continued working in both […]

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February 19, 2012

Book Review: Exploring what it is about friends

As I read Lauren Fox’s new novel, I dog-eared the pages with witty lines, or impressively bitter ones, or ones that made me laugh. Please forgive me, Alfred A. Knopf, for what I’ve done to your book. I hadn’t intended to make origami out of it. Willa, her narrator, describes her parents’ marriage as “another […]
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February 19, 2012

SCENE & HEARD: Hello, goodbye

The Mitchell Institute bids farewell to former executive director Colleen Quint and welcomes a new leader in Meg Baxter.
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February 19, 2012

Maine FiberArts shows work of Vendituoli

Maine fiber artist Jill Vendituoli shows needlepoint tapestries through April 28 in a newly opened exhibition at Maine Fiberarts in Topsham. The exhibition, “The Art of the Needle,” highlights the meticulously executed needlepoint tapestries of a dedicated Maine artist who has been making work for more than two decades. Vendituoli lives in West Newfield on […]
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February 19, 2012

Movie Review: McAdams and Tatum make good in ‘The Vow’

What a difference five years can make. For Paige (Rachel McAdams), it meant a new life free from her rich, controlling parents, free-spirited new friends, a loving marriage to Leo (Channing Tatum), and a promising career as a sculptor. Then she loses her memory after a car crash, and without those experiences, who is she? […]
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February 19, 2012

Nicolas Cage continues to do things his way

The Oscar-winning actor is unapologetic about taking roles like Johnny Blaze in the latest 'Ghost Rider.'

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