Arts & Entertainment

Published
June 11, 2011

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.'
Published
June 11, 2011

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 […]
Published
June 5, 2011

Book Review: Prose’s return to satire is fabulous

Francine Prose is a droll master at mixing stories with cultural skewers.
Published
June 5, 2011

Book Review: A Mainer collides with prosperous folks ‘from away’

The most satisfying books about hardscrabble life on the coast of Maine fill your nose with the pungent odor of salt air, give you a sense of worn linoleum on the floor and set your pulse in synch with the pull of the tides and the rhythm of seawater lapping along the shore. “Hull Creek,” […]
Published
June 5, 2011

Arts Planner

• Portland-based Dramatic Repertory Company presents the play “Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde” through June 12 at the studio theater at Portland Stage Company, 25A Forest Ave. Written by Moises Kaufman, “Gross Indecency” recounts Wilde’s real-life, turn-of-the-century trial. Using court transcripts and Wilde’s own writings, Kaufman tells the story of actual events […]

Published
June 5, 2011

Bob Keyes: The word is out: Maine Performs!

For the better part of a decade, arts leaders in Maine have hammered the Maine Office of Tourism to do a better job to promote cultural tourism in the state. Lord knows, people come from all over the country and around the world to avail themselves of Maine art, of the visual variety and the […]
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June 5, 2011

War Illustrated

Steve Mumford's ink drawings from Afghanistan and Iraq were inspired by another battle-tested illustrator of some renown: Winslow Homer.
Published
June 5, 2011

Arts Dispatches

HALLOWELL Vienna artist is People’s Choice at Harlow Gallery Ross Grams of Vienna won the People’s Choice Award at Art2011, the 16th annual juried art show at the Harlow Gallery. Visitors were invited to vote for a favorite work of art. Grams won $100, sponsored by the Animal Wellness Center of Augusta, for his oil […]
Published
June 5, 2011

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 […]
Published
June 5, 2011

Classical Beat: It’s never too early to introduce kids to classical music

If you read the Sunday paper early, it might be a good idea to pack the kids into the car and drive to Ogunquit’s Dunaway Center in time for today’s free 12:30 p.m. concert by the world-renowned Cassatt String Quartet. If no kids are available, the program, like all good music for children, will appeal […]

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