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Arts & Entertainment

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October 2, 2011

Dine Out Maine: Big, hearty dining experience at cozy Cafe Miranda

Cafe Miranda feels real big. This is despite the fact it’s a converted fraternal hall with 40 seats, a handful of bar stools and a few tables on a side patio in the nice weather. It’s been open since 1993. That giant experience comes from a variety of factors: a menu with a staggering variety […]
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October 2, 2011

Audience Calendar

Art First Friday Art Walk, various locations, Portland, free. firstfridayartwalk.com. 5 to 8 p.m. Friday. “John Marin: Modernism at Mid-century,” with work from Marin’s career between 1870 and 1953, Portland Museum of Art. 775-6148; portlandmuseum.org. Through Oct. 10. “The Photographs of Madeleine de Sinety,” Portland Museum of Art. 775-6148; portlandmuseum.org. Through Dec. 18. “Paul Caponigro: […]
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October 2, 2011

Author Q &A: Compulsive gamboling

Janice Spaulding loves goats, so her new book aims to teach the like-minded both how to care for the animals and how to cook with their milk and meat.
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October 2, 2011

Society Notebook: Flights of fancy

The Jetport unveils its impressive $75 million passenger terminal at a VIP soiree on Thursday.
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October 2, 2011

For openers . . .

Conductor Robert Moody likens the Portland Symphony's first concerts of the 2011-12 season – featuring pianist Awadagin Pratt – to a 'great, gratifying, electric' journey.

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October 2, 2011

Book Review: Life spent pursuing normalcy

A new novel details the fame and misfortune of Mrs. Tom Thumb.
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October 2, 2011

Book Review: New book hits close to home with tales from War of 1812

Next year, the United States, Canada and Great Britain will observe the bicentennial of the War of 1812. For the U.S., which declared the war, it was mostly a string of defeats and humiliations. For Great Britain, it was a pesky, expensive sideshow of empire, hardly a war at all. For British North America, it […]
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October 2, 2011

Classical Beat: PSO performs opening shows in hue of ‘Blue’

It’s hard not to admire a composer who quotes Wittgenstein in his program notes, but I think I can manage it. The composer in this case is the highly successful Michael Torke, whose “Javelin” Olympics music was played last year by the Portland Symphony Orchestra under Robert Moody. I recall characterizing it as fascist bombast […]
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October 2, 2011

Signings, etc.

CHRIS VAN DUSEN
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October 2, 2011

Bob Keyes: Somewhere, the gallery gods are smiling

PORTLAND — Matt Welch understands that the economy is not well. Especially as it relates to the arts, the sluggish economy poses the single greatest challenge to visual artists and the galleries that represent them. But Welch isn’t interested in wallowing in the fear that’s associated with these difficult times. “Sometimes you get to the […]