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Arts & Entertainment
Audience Calendar
Art Jason Larkin: “Past Perfect,” photography exhibit, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, $10-$12, under 16 free. 596-6457; farnsworthmuseum.org. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily; until 8 p.m. Wednesday. Through Nov. 27. “Paul Caponigro: The Hidden Presence of Places,” photographs, $10-$12, under 16 free. 596-6457; farnsworthmuseum.org. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily; until 8 p.m. Wednesday. “Drawing […]
Arts Dispatches
PORTLAND MECA graduate joins panel for upcoming symposium Vivian Beer, a graduate of the Maine College of Art and current resident of New Hampshire, will participate in a full-day symposium called Making, hosted on Sept. 10 by the School of Art+Design at Purchase College — SUNY. The event will examine the ways in which the […]
Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry
Edited and Introduced by Wesley McNair, Maine Poet Laureate
Arts Planner
• The Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium in Downeast Maine is in full swing, and there are plenty of opportunities to observe monumental sculptures being made with Maine granite, as well as those that have been completed previously. This year’s symposium features six sculptors: Hitoshi Tanaka of Japan, Jorg Plickat of Germany, John Barlow Hudson of […]
Dine Out Maine: Sidle on over to The Slipway, no ordinary seafood shack
The Slipway brings a Key West feel to the Maine coast — if you substitute pine trees for palms. The sprawling seafood shack and restaurant sits on the water’s edge at the public landing in Thomaston. Indoors and out blend in a haphazard collection of eating spaces — porch, bar, dining room and a wharf […]
Society Notebook: Good Clean Fun
Leaders in environmental technology in Maine gather for a Midsummer Mixer.
Book Review: Language and fear no match for youth
A Ghanaian boy rises above London’s projects in Stephen Kelman’s debut.
Art Review: Blue Wrap fashions make a passionate statement
The Blue Wrap Project features about 25 dresses, numerous accessories and photographs from a March 2011 runway show in support of the Scarborough-based Partners for World Health. The installation at the Portland Public Library’s Lewis Gallery makes for a very strong and interesting exhibition. The premise was to challenge local designers, art students and artists […]
Arts Planner
• On Wednesday, the Ogunquit Playhouse opens the musical “Legally Blonde,” which will remain in production through Sept. 17. The musical is based on the hit 2001 movie and follows college sweetheart and homecoming queen Elle Woods (played by Broadway’s Becky Gulsvig) as she heads for Harvard Law School in pursuit of her boyfriend Warner, […]