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October 30, 2011

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This week • Brigit Pegeen Kelly and Gray Jacobik will give back-to-back readings at the University of Southern Maine later this week. Both are free and open to the public. Kelly is featured in the 12th annual Katherine O’Brien Poetry reading sponsored by the USM English Department through a bequest from the O’Brien family. She […]
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October 30, 2011

Signings, etc.

WESLEY McNAIR
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October 30, 2011

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

Through the tender conversation of today's poem, Martin Steingesser, Portland's first poet laureate, reveals two mothers: One from the present, the other from the past.
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October 30, 2011

Dine out Maine: Fuel transports diners to heights of French country fare

Fuel is hot stuff. Enter to find flickering candles set aloft in contemporary metal pieces on red brick-colored walls. Here too are black leather lounge couches, a lustrous bar, a giant painting of the Chicago skyline. Welcome to an upscale urban refuge says the decor at Fuel, from the sleek entrance to the back wall […]
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October 30, 2011

Playing with Paine

The Portland String Quartet today performs a never-heard-before 1850s piece by renowned musicologist and native son John Knowles Paine.

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October 30, 2011

Classical Beat: Jobs’ love of Bach worth noting

This has been a season of synchronicity. In all the deification of Steve Jobs — we don’t have too many heroes from the business world nowadays — I learned of his love of Bach. Then a friend brought me a copy of beat poet Charles Bukowski’s “The Last Night of the Earth”: ditto. After Tomas […]
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October 30, 2011

Art Review: Nadler’s brilliant work has that certain ‘thing’

In a recent interview with me, Jamie Wyeth talked about painting as a struggle that, for him, is “not particularly enjoyable” until, after so much work, “that certain moment when it comes alive.” This might sound a bit odd in light of Wyeth’s facility and incredible chops, but it seems reasonable enough considering his work […]
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October 30, 2011

Tyng landscapes, Dodds boats on view at two Augusta sites

AUGUSTA — The artwork of Alexandra Tyng and James Dodds is displayed in Maine’s Capitol Complex as part of the Maine Arts Commission’s Arts in the Capitol program. The exhibition is on loan from the Dowling Walsh Gallery in Rockland, and will remain on display until February. The work is viewable from 8 a.m. to […]
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October 30, 2011

Book Review: Book digs deep into intricacy of affairs

Anne Enright tells a funny, dark, no-judgments tale of rapture and ambivalence.
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October 30, 2011

Author Q & A: Sweet

Isle au Haut's Kate Shaffer writes about her move from cook to chocolatier – recipes included – in a new book.

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