Arts & Entertainment

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June 26, 2011

Audience Calendar

Art “New Works” by Craig Mooney and Henry Isaacs, Gallery on Chase Hill, Kennebunkport. maine-art.com. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. today through July 3. Through July 21. “Maine Moderns: Art in Seguinland, 1900-1940,” 65 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and photographs by a small group of American modernists who worked in Maine in the first half of […]
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June 26, 2011

Author Q & A: Keep the change

For Portland money coach Jane Honech, the key to real -- and lasting -- financial transformation lies in first understanding how we look at money.
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June 26, 2011

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

Maine is such a diverse state, it can sometimes seem unfamiliar even to people who live here. Robert Chute of Poland Spring explores that theme in this week’s poem about Down East. Driving Down East By Robert M. Chute Crossing the Penobscot on Route One we enter a different country. Our home state on […]
Published
June 19, 2011

Book Review: ‘Coffins’ sneaks up and nails this tale

A story about an 83-year-old obit writer in Nebraska hearkens to Stephen King.
Published
June 19, 2011

Arts Planner

• Beginning Thursday, the Portland Museum of Art opens its summer blockbuster, “John Marin: Modernism at Midcentury.” Most research and exhibitions about Marin focus on his early work. This show, with 54 paintings, drawings and watercolors, concentrates on the late period of Marin’s career, from 1933 through his death in 1953. The show will be […]

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June 19, 2011

Bob Keyes: Payson Wing revisited

PORTLAND – Henry Cobb strode purposefully and slowly up the stairs from the second floor to the third floor of the Portland Museum of Art. He paused, turned, and walked back down with equally measured steps. As he walked, Cobb explained the mathematics of the rise and depth of the treads and the purpose of […]
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June 19, 2011

A passion for words

This year's young 'Journey Into Writing' winners take the craft very seriously ... and personally.
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June 19, 2011

Society Notebook: ‘Between Earth and Sky’

Art lovers gather for the opening of June LaCombe's outdoor exhibit of works by more than 30 New England artists.
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June 19, 2011

Dine Out Maine: Riverside melds two aesthetics – comfort and refinement

At the Riverside Inn and Restaurant in East Machias, chef Rocky Rakoczy faces several challenges. Sourcing high-quality ingredients, aside from local seafood, in far Down East Maine is one. Working without a community of like-minded chefs is another. Yet another is the fact that Washington County is a region of low incomes and hardscrabble lives. […]
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June 19, 2011

Classical Beat: ‘Cafe Vienna’ was such a good musical, they made it an opera

PORTopera’s Young Artists Program is doing something entirely different this year: a world premiere of the opera version of “Cafe Vienna” by American composer Richard Pearson Thomas. PORTopera Artistic Director Dona Vaughn had conducted a musical-style production of the work — dialogue with musical numbers — and suggested the composer rewrite it in operatic style […]

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