OGUNQUIT Michelle Lee in ‘Summer of Love’ at Ogunquit Playhouse The Ogunquit Playhouse has announced that TV and film star Michelle Lee will headline the new Roger Bean musical “Summer of Love,” on stage June 22 through July 16. Lee has starred on Broadway and in feature and television films. She is known for her […]
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Society Notebook: Maine teens fashionably great for prom ’11
Another prom season has come and gone, but the glamorous memories live on in the snapshots. This week we present you with a collection of photos featuring Maine students sporting the season’s hottest styles. While a handful of fashion-forward guys went with white, this year the black tuxedo again proved to be the favorite, with […]
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Two photography exhibits open this month at university
BANGOR — The University of Maine Museum of Art opens two new contemporary photography exhibitions this month. Photographer Thomas Hager pays homage to the early photographic processes of Sir John Herschel and Anna Atkins in “New Dawn Fades,” on view June 24 to Sept. 24. Hager re-examines early historical processes, and employs new techniques and […]
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Signings, etc.
The Danforth in Portland will be the site today of a book launch party for Dana Moos, celebrating the release of her new cookbook “The Art of Breakfast: How to Bring B&B Entertaining Home” (Down East Books, $28.95). Moos is the former innkeeper of the Kingsleigh Inn in Southwest Harbor and current general manager of […]
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Author Q & A: You ought to be in pictures
What makes Maine Maine? A Northport couple tries to capture its essence in words and stunning images in the new book ‘Maine Icons.’
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Book review: Power in the pieces, and in the whole
Portland writer Sarah Braunstein’s debut novel, “The Sweet Relief of Missing Children,” is an unflinching probe into the frailty of children’s dreams and desires. Even though grown-ups figure prominently, most remain emotionally crippled by childhood wounds. When one returns to the house he grew up in and is kissed by a woman now living there, […]
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Harlow exhibit explores: What is a drawing?
HALLOWELL – The latest art exhibition at the Harlow Gallery began with Facebook. Monmouth artist Amy Ray noticed that artist friends were posting recent drawings, and many of them captured her imagination. Some were intensely intricate; others refreshingly loose. Some were abstract and free-form; others were precise. “It was inspiring to see what people were […]
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War Illustrated
Steve Mumford’s ink drawings from Afghanistan and Iraq were inspired by another battle-tested illustrator of some renown: Winslow Homer.
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Signings, etc.
JIM NICHOLS Author Jim Nichols, who lives in Warren, will be reading from and discussing his novel “Hull Creek” (Down East Books, $24.95). The novel deals with change on the Maine coast and the challenges it presents to young fishermen. Nichols is appearing as part of the library’s Brown Bag Lecture Series, so people are […]
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Theater Review: Able cast makes fascinating work of Wilde story
The times they were a-changin’, even in the late 19th century. But not as fast as Oscar Wilde would have liked. The famed author was found guilty by an English court for living his life based on the idea that pleasure should not be accompanied by guilt. That’s one of several important thematic ironies that […]