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  • Published
    September 4, 2011

    Maine Maritime Museum hosts wind exhibition

    History has a way of repeating itself as a new age of harnessed wind has begun on the Maine coast.

  • Published
    September 4, 2011

    Show honors artist-mentor relationship

    DAMARISCOTTA — The Firehouse Center for the Falcon Foundation hosts an exhibition through Oct. 8 that honors the artist-mentor relationship. “Mentors: The Mentoring of Artists” includes the work of Will Barnet, Lois Dodd, Joseph A. Fiore, Dennis Pinette, David McLaughlin, Jay Sawyer and others. The foundation holds the artwork of Fiore, who died in 2008, […]

  • Published
    September 4, 2011

    Signings, etc.

    GERRY BOYLE

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    September 4, 2011

    Society Notebook: We need to talk

    Members of the business community offer a nod to networking.

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    September 4, 2011

    Book Review: ‘Buddha’ gives voice to Japan bride fates

    Author Julie Otsuka has woven countless stories from individual lives.

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  • Published
    September 4, 2011

    Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

    Poet Stuart Kestenbaum of Deer Isle is director of the Haystack School of Crafts, one of the state’s cultural treasures. His poem for this week remembers his father, a Mr. Fix-It who couldn’t. Mr. Fix-It By STUART KESTENBAUM My father never made anything or fixed anything, even though we had the obligatory tools in the […]

  • Published
    September 3, 2011
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    Dine Out Maine: Zapoteca Mexican restaurant shines like the Baja sun

    Zapoteca is a new Mexican restaurant in Portland, occupying a free-standing building where Siano’s Pizzeria used to be. It’s also a tequileria. And a very popular spot at that. I left tequila flights to the aficionados, and sampled a few cocktails. Margaritas came in individual shakers, our server giving the final flourishing tumble and pour. […]

  • Published
    August 28, 2011

    Book Review: Real estate gets truly risky in new mystery

    “Killer Listing,” the second mystery novel by Camden writer Vicki Doudera, is as good as her first, “A House to Die For,” which was named “Best of 2010” by Suspense Magazine and praised in the New York Times. In “Killer Listing,” Doudera’s main character — the gutsy and charming Darby Farr — makes a return […]

  • Published
    August 28, 2011

    Signings, etc.

    LOUISE PENNY

  • Published
    August 28, 2011

    Book Review: Two views of the man caught up in ‘Catch-22’

    A daughter's memoir gives a deeper view than a new biography of Joseph Heller.