Arts & Entertainment

Published
August 21, 2011

Signings, etc.

JOSEPH DANE
Published
August 21, 2011

Society Notebook: Good Clean Fun

Leaders in environmental technology in Maine gather for a Midsummer Mixer.
Published
August 21, 2011

Movie Review: This ‘Conan’ could use a few grins

Take away much of the myth, most of the sorcery and all of the humor of the 1982 John Milius-Arnold Schwarzenegger version of the sword and sorcery epic “Conan the Barbarian,” and you’ve got an idea what the new “Conan” is like. It has a better actor as star — Jason Momoa (“North Shore,” “Game […]
Published
August 21, 2011

Movie Review: ‘Sarah’s Key’ a riveting World War II thriller

Here’s an unconventional French Holocaust drama, a film that plays as a guilty remembrance of a dark corner of French history tucked into a ticking-clock thriller. “Sarah’s Key” stars Kristin Scott Thomas as Julia, a modern-day American journalist investigating the mass deportation of Jews from the Marais neighborhood of Paris in 1942. Some 13,000 French […]
Published
August 21, 2011

MECA alumni transform world with ‘Rally’

The Institute of Contemporary Art at the Maine College of Art in Portland will present “Rally,” a juried exhibition of works by artists who explore identity, memory, erasure, projected narrative and the architecture of image. The show runs Wednesday through Oct. 9, with an opening reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday. The five artists […]

Published
August 21, 2011

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

Edited and Introduced by Wesley McNair, Maine Poet Laureate
Published
August 21, 2011

Author Q & A: Voice lessons

In the new book 'Salt and Pines,' stories of Maine from days gone by are told by the people who actually lived them.
Published
August 20, 2011

Dine Out Maine: Mediterranean Grill serves up an authentic taste of Turkey

When friends who used to live in the Middle East came to visit Maine recently, the four of us decided to visit the Mediterranean Grill in Freeport. Since 2004, co-owners and brothers Kemal and Erkan Cigri have been bringing authentic flavors from their native Turkey to this spot located just off Route 1’s stretch of […]
Published
August 14, 2011

Arts Planner

• Portland artist Toni Wolf shows recent work in “Skateboards and Storyboard,” on view through September at Trinket and Fern, 172 Middle St., Portland. The exhibition includes original hand-painted skateboards from Wolf’s new line called Honeyslide, as well as charcoal drawings from “Car Dealer’s Daughter,” a graphic novel she is writing. The decks are bold […]
Published
August 14, 2011

Bob Keyes: Creative force moving on from Monmouth

This summer feels a little surreal to David Greenham. The long-tenured producing director at the Theater at Monmouth announced long ago that this would be his final summer at the theater. For 14 years now, Greenham has assembled a company of hard-working actors, put together a summer schedule deep on Shakespeare, and staged some of […]

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