A Conversation in Poetry Edited by Wesley McNair, Maine Poet Laureate As we say goodbye to April, which was National Poetry Month, it’s the perfect time to introduce Take Heart, my new column for Maine newspapers. Take Heart will feature one poem each week by a Maine poet. The column’s first poem, by Stuart Kestenbaum of Deer Isle, […]
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Scene & Heard Datebook
WEDNESDAY • Good Shepherd Food Bank Humanitarian Award Dinner, 5:30 p.m., Holiday Inn by the Bay, Portland. Albert Lepage and Andy Barowsky of Lepage Bakeries will be honored during this event, which features a reception with cash bar, dinner and a performance by comedian Bob Marley. $200. http://gsfb.org. THURSDAY • USM Multicultural & International Student […]
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Society Notebook: Show Tunes
Slaid Cleaves performs in support of the St. Lawrence arts venue.
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PMA tips hat to Barnet on 100th birthday
PORTLAND — To honor the 100th birthday of artist Will Barnet, the Portland Museum of Art is showing an installation of his work through Aug. 14. “Will Barnet at 100” features more than a dozen lithographs, drawings, watercolors and oils on canvas from the museum’s collection, as well as works on loan. Barnet, a longtime […]
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Art Review: Inspired mix puts UMaine gallery on map
Although not large, the University of Maine Museum of Art has one of the nicest gallery spaces in the state. With three fine shows and about 20 excellent works from the permanent collection on view, it’s well worth a visit. Brian Shure’s very large and highly realistic oil painting of the crowded bustle of New […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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Dine Out Maine: Metamorphosis complete, Henry and Marty still delivers
Disclosure: I’ve been eating at Henry and Marty since it opened in July 1998, when it was a hole in the wall for a vegan lunch run by partners Henry D’Alessandris (actor/dancer/chef) and Martin Perry (concert pianist). Soon it expanded and morphed into a spot for upscale dinners, frequented by locals and a slew of […]
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John Prine masters the love song at Merrill
PORTLAND — With all the talk of royalty and weddings, it seems appropriate to anoint John Prine as the king of the love song. Certainly, the highly regarded American songwriter has mastered the art of emotional devastation in verse, but does anyone write a better song of devotion? His brilliance was on display Friday night […]
