Arts & Entertainment

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October 9, 2011

Author Q & A: Kidding around

'Strega Nona's Gift' author Tomie dePaola stays in touch with the child inside.
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October 9, 2011

Lady grand

A new documentary from Portland filmmaker Huey explores the life and jazz of pianist Marian McPartland.
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October 9, 2011

Bob Keyes: Madeleine de Sinety and the power of observation

Madeleine de Sinety pulls her arms tight to her body, edges her wheelchair up to the cafe table, and takes a small bite of quiche. She savors the morsel, then turns and looks me in the eye. “I’m interested in people who live simple lives (on) small pieces of land,” says de Sinety, a tiny […]
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October 9, 2011

Public invited to ‘Dwelling Place’

Between Wednesday and Oct. 22, the University of Southern Maine community and the public are invited to see and experience “Dwelling Place,” a temporary public art installation in front of Luther Bonney Hall near Bedford Street in Portland. “Dwelling Place” is modeled after a traditional Jewish sukkah in celebration of a weeklong festival in which […]
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October 9, 2011

Signings, etc.

BARBARA WALSH

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October 9, 2011

Society Notebook: Tickled pink

A York Hospital breast cancer program benefits from a party with many parts.
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October 9, 2011

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

Today’s column features Richard Aldridge, a poet, anthologist and educator who lived on the Maine coast. In Aldridge’s poem, a moth becomes the source of thoughts about the unknown. Moth at My Window Against my pane He beats a rapid Pitapat In trying to reach The desk lamp lit In front of me. Wing flurries […]
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October 8, 2011

Dine Out Maine: Step back in time with Maria’s Old World cuisine

Rose-colored walls. White brick. Fake columns. Cut-glass chandeliers. Italian Renaissance sculptures in miniature. An open kitchen with a Plexiglas partition. No windows. Where are we? Maria’s in Portland. For some, it’s a nostalgic and enjoyable throwback. Think 1970s. The grown-ups are taking the family to a rare dinner out, to a gourmet spot, with fancy […]
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October 2, 2011

Arts Dispatches

PORTLAND Landmarks honors MECA for preservation of building Greater Portland Landmarks has given a Preservation Honor Award to the Maine College of Art for the preservation and adaptive reuse of the historic Miller Building (1904 and 1911), formerly the Porteous Mitchell & Braun department store, as a center of excellence for art education. MECA’s building, […]
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October 2, 2011

Arts Planner

• In Gorham, the University of Southern Maine Department of Theatre presents “A View from the Bridge” by Arthur Miller, one of the great plays of American theater. Thomas Power directs. The play, which opens Friday and runs through Oct. 16 at Russell Hall, focuses on Brooklynite Eddie Carbone, who dives into a pit of […]

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