It’s not ‘Middlesex’ redux, but ‘Marriage Plot’ isn’t chopped liver, either.
Arts & Entertainment
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Author Q&A: Divided we stand
A new book by Portland writer Colin Woodard traces our history – and offers perspective on our present – as a politically and culturally fractured land.
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Audience Calendar
Art Jason Larkin: “Past Perfect,” photography, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland. 596-6457; farnsworthmuseum.org. Through Nov. 27. “Diversity,” multi-artist show featuring blown glass, acrylic, oil and encaustic paintings, ceramics and pottery, Richard Boyd Gallery, Peaks Island. 712-1097. Through Oct. 30. “The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States,” drawings, paintings, sculptures, photographs and prints, […]
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Dine Out Maine: Fez could use focus, but its food earns a tip of the hat
We dropped in at Fez, occupying the former site of Hamdi restaurant in Portland, on a Friday night. Instead of strictly Moroccan cuisine, as the name suggests, we found Mediterranean food with a northern African emphasis, including Somali fare. It was warm, so the door was open to the sidewalk. A small heap of building […]
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Society Notebook: Indies rock
Independent business owners gather for a party celebrating what makes Portland … Portland.
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Classical Beat: Career piano tuner in love with life’s flats and sharps
Memo to young people having trouble finding a job: Piano tuning. People who love to play will always find a way to pay for what Matt Guggenheim, who tunes the pianos for the Portland Symphony Orchestra, calls a “necessary luxury.” “They’re like Beethoven. The bombs can be dropping 40 miles away, but what they care […]
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Arts Planner
• Last spring, nine College of the Atlantic students spent 10 weeks in Vichy, France. The students from the United States, Mexico, the Czech Republic and El Salvador were charged with recording their journey in drawings, paintings, photography, words and video. Highlights of their work will be displayed in “Carnets de Voyage: Illustrated Travel Journals” […]
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Book Review: Tales of loss don’t bog down in sorrow
Sebastian Barry’s latest novel shows a high level of finely wrought empathy.
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Arts Dispatches
BATH Best-selling author to visit Hyde School on Oct. 30 Best-selling author Douglas Preston will visit Hyde School on Oct. 30 to discuss the finer points of writing as part of a writer’s workshop. The class, which will meet first in the fall and continue through April, is for students who want to launch a […]