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November 13, 2011

Photos of life before Holocaust send author on exploration

LEWISTON — Ann Weiss, who discovered at Auschwitz a cache of photographs from the lives of Jewish victims before they arrived at the death camp, speaks at Bates College at 7 p.m. Monday at the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave. Confiscated from Jews deported to Auschwitz in 1943, the images reflect the memories […]
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November 13, 2011

Signings, etc.

CRASH BARRY
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November 13, 2011

Movie Review: Star cameos can’t save ‘Jack and Jill’

Among the famous people who make cameo appearances in the new Adam Sandler comedy “Jack and Jill”: Johnny Depp, John McEnroe, David Spade, Shaquille O’Neal, Drew Carrey, Christie Brinkley, Michael Irvin, Regis Philbin, Dana Carvey and even Jared Fogle, the guy from the Subway sandwich commercials. Total number of laughs all this amassed star power […]
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November 13, 2011

Take heart: A Conversation in Poetry

Edited and Introduced by Wesley McNair, Maine Poet Laureate The late Philip Booth of Castine, one of the most important poets of his generation, was known for his ability to compress meanings into a small space. In today’s poem he discusses the social reality of America in just 10 lines. United States […]
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November 13, 2011

Dine Out Maine: The Front Room: Cozy and festive and all about comfort

The Front Room’s recessed doorway straddles the right angle of a residential intersection as if to say, is it time for brunch — or supper? Served daily, both are very popular at this cozy restaurant located on Portland’s Munjoy Hill. It is just the kind of place about which you might suggest going down to […]

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November 13, 2011

Book Review: What’s left in the end, dark and light

Author Joan Didion takes stock of treasured memories after her daughter's death in 2005.
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November 13, 2011

Movie Review: ‘Immortals’ could use a lot more life

We will never know what it’s like to live forever, but we can at least get a taste of what eternity feels like with “Immortals.” The last time something this big and bloated moved this slowly was during the Ice Age. It’s surprising the movie is so bad. It comes from Mark Canton and Gianni […]
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November 6, 2011

Arts Planner

This week • Portland Stage Company hosts the 15th annual From Away festival of international playwriting at 7 p.m. Monday. From Away features the voices of international playwrights, whose work is excerpted and performed in translation. This year’s festival includes readings from the work of Pilar Quintana (Colombia), Josephine Rowe (Australia) and Jeremy Tiang (Singapore), […]
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November 6, 2011

Bold stroke by Acorn Productions

Acorn gets serious with its next production, the smoldering Edward Albee classic, 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'
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November 6, 2011

Bob Keyes: Mainer stretches campus without borders

It’s too early to say, but Maine-born artist Kate Farrington may well represent the brain drain in reverse. Farrington, a graduate of Bangor High School and Bowdoin College (classes of 1985 and 1989, respectively), is living in Cambridge, Mass., and working toward her doctoral degree. Not at Harvard or MIT or any of the other […]

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