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Published
May 8, 2011

Poetry: Take heart

A Conversation in Poetry Edited by Wesley McNair, Maine Poet Laureate
Published
May 8, 2011

Scene & Heard Datebook

TUESDAY • Portland Greendrinks, 5:30 to 8 p.m., Bayside Bowl, Portland. Network with business owners and others interested in the environment with drinks, bowling at $2 a game and support of Maine Academy of Modern Music. $2 with drinking vessel/$5 without.www.portlandgreendrinks.com. WEDNESDAY • Rainbow Business & Professional Association Scholarship Awards Banquet, 5:45 p.m., Holiday Inn […]
Published
May 8, 2011

Audience Calendar

Art “The Lay of the Land,” work from the museum’s permanent collection, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, $4-$10. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today. “European Drawings,” portraits, figure studies, landscapes and architectural studies by various artists, Portland Museum of Art, $4-$10. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today through Thursday; 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday; […]
Published
May 8, 2011

Concert Review: Liszt’s compositions not worthy of young pianist’s great talent

Pianist Anastasia Antonacos gave it a good try Friday night at the University of Southern Maine’s Corthell Hall, but I’m still not convinced that Franz Liszt is on the short list of great composers. His virtuosity always gets in the way. Antonacos began the program celebrating the 200th anniversary of Liszt’s birth with three of […]
Published
May 8, 2011

Theater Review: One actor deftly depicts many faces of apartheid

For its recent productions, the Portland Stage Company certainly couldn’t be accused of overpopulating its wide stage with actors. Their last show, “Halpern & Johnson,” featured just two performers, and their final offering of the season has a cast of one. Of course, Stephanie Cozart, the solo star of “The Syringa Tree,” plays close to […]

Published
May 7, 2011

Dine Out Maine: Build a distinctive dinner of any size at Bar Lola

– Bar Lola, you had me at hello. Your online menu? I’m salivating before I arrive. A grazer by nature, I’m a big fan of the small-plate trend, and there’s much here I want to try. The small dining room is arranged well: a small furnished area just inside the entry; the dining area bordered […]
Published
May 1, 2011

Arts Dispatches

FRYEBURG Short-film exhibition offers program mixing old, new Asbury Shorts, New York’s longest-running short-film exhibition, will bring the Short Film Concert to the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center at Fryeburg Academy at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. This is the third time Asbury Shorts has presented at Fryeburg. It screens new and classic short films at […]
Published
May 1, 2011

Arts Planner

• In June 2010, Saco artist Diane Bowie Zaitlin attended a residency at Great Spruce Head Island in Penobscot Bay. In “Point of Departure” at the Saco Museum, she provides a view of her creative process and the power of influence. The exhibition will be on view beginning Saturday through Sept. 4. A public reception […]
Published
May 1, 2011

Bob Keyes: Bowdoin student joins Freedom Rides observance

As a youngster, Anna Nutter remembers piling in the car the very afternoon that school let out and making the long family drive from Texas to Maine. Her mother, who grew up here, couldn’t wait to escape the broiling Houston heat and return home to the cool breezes of a Maine summer. Along the way, […]
Published
May 1, 2011

Arts Calendar

Art Frederick Lynch: New Work, Icon Contemporary Art, Brunswick. 725-8157. Today through Saturday. Through May 14. “The Lay of the Land,” work from the museum’s permanent collection, Portland Museum of Art, $4-$10. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today through Thursday; 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. “European Drawings,” portraits […]

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