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    January 8, 2012
    Mamma Mia Tour

    Arts Planner

    • Portland Ovations brings a touring version of the musical “Mamma Mia!” to Merrill Auditorium at 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, and at 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday. This show features the music of the pop band ABBA. It’s a story of summer love that unfolds on a Greek island, featuring familiar songs such as […]

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    January 8, 2012

    Audience Calendar

    ART “Gather Up the Fragments: The Andrews Shaker Collection,” Shaker furniture, printed works, visual art, tools, textiles and small crafts, Portland Museum of Art. 775-6148; portlandmuseum.org. Through Feb. 5. “Focus on India,” photographs by Lawrence Elbroch, Red Door Pottery Studio and Gallery Shop, Kittery. 439-5671. Through Feb. 1. Michele A. Caron, paintings in gouache, egg […]

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    January 8, 2012

    Author Q&A: Fight of their lives

    Maine native Charles Hamlin, an Air Force gunner in World War II, revisits that time with 'True Stories of the Mighty Eighth.'

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    January 8, 2012

    Bob Keyes: He knows the score on lumberjack culture

    Sumner McKane's new music and movie experience "In the Blood" aims to teach people about Maine's lumberjacks.

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    January 8, 2012

    Book Review: Ordinary paratrooper, extraordinary story

    “HELL IS SO GREEN” By Lt. William Diebold. Lyons Press. 259 pages. $22.95. The first time Lt. William Diebold flew into the Himalayas in a drafty Douglas C-47 cargo plane in World War II, his reservations about volunteering to parachute into them were justified. “They were the biggest, highest hunks of earth I have ever […]

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  • Published
    January 8, 2012

    Dine Out Maine: Petrillo’s menu well worth exploring on trip to Freeport

    For years, Petrillo’s was a spot I paid no attention to as I drove through Freeport on Depot Street, a road that veers away from the retail outlets. Why would I go to a pizza place for the tourists, one that maybe served a few ersatz Italian entrees? Then someone who lives in town said […]

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    January 8, 2012

    Art Review: Photographs show the global reach of Maine artists

    At first glance, “Maine Photographers: Eyes on Asia” at the Addison Woolley Gallery in Portland might seem to have little to do with the state of arts in Maine. Casual viewers could pass it over as exotic and hardly relevant to pragmatic Mainers caught up in hard times. But this is a show curated by […]

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    January 8, 2012

    Plinker, painter

    Paul Wyse spent the first 30 years of his life learning the skills necessary to become the best concert pianist possible. It took him much less time to become a master portrait artist.

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    January 8, 2012

    Signings, etc.

    Author McKay Jenkins will be discussing and reading from his recent book, “What’s Gotten Into Us: Staying Healthy in a Toxic World” (Random House). The book investigates the dangers of chemicals in our daily lives, and offers a guide for reducing toxins in our homes and bodies. WHEN: Noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday WHERE: Portland […]

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    January 8, 2012
    SHUTTLE EXPLOSION

    Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

    This week is the 26th anniversary of NASA’s Challenger disaster, which took the lives of New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe and her astronaut companions. Today’s haunting poem describes their ill-fated journey and the technological culture that failed them.   What Positions Do They and We Assume In the Encapsulated Stillness? By John Tagliabue While somewhere in […]