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 […]
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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 […]
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Bands fill his studio like peas in a Peapod
Ron Harrity’s tiny Peapod Recordings has grown into a big deal on the local music scene.
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Society Notebook: Ink
It’s part of what drew Mike Perry to screen printing – and art lovers to the opening of Perry’s ‘Pulled’ at Space Gallery.
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Arts Disptaches
PORTLAND Snowlion Repertory to hold ‘Christmas Bride’ auditions Portland’s newest professional theater company, Snowlion Repertory Company, has announced auditions for the New England premiere of the Charles Dickens holiday musical “The Christmas Bride” by MK Wolfe and Noel Katz. The play will run Dec. 15-21 at Lucid Stage in Portland. Al D’Andrea will direct, with […]
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Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry
Edited and Introduced by Wesley McNair, Maine Poet Laureate
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Author Q &A: Hanging Around
Travel writer Janet Mendelsohn finds treasure right under our noses: Nearly 80 Maine museums, from the world-class to the slightly wacky.
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Book Review: Darkness and dysfunction in a Maine mill town
“Quinton Deane had a reputation around the paddock. The other grooms usually shot their horses up with diuretics or mixed drugs. Quinton had his own method of coaxing a sore horse.” From the first paragraph of his interesting second novel, “Parts North: A Back-Roads Noir,” Kevin Cohen creates a dark, brooding atmosphere that’s consistent throughout this […]