Arts & Entertainment

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April 10, 2011

Book Review: Deepest love and darkest sorrow

Francisco Goldman weaves a powerful tale of discovery and loss.
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April 10, 2011

Book Review: Author’s superb essays transport readers ‘Well Out to Sea’

Talk about “Two Maines” — the only reason that the island of Matinicus is part of the Pine Tree State is that there is nowhere, short of independence, for it to go. Located 22 miles out to sea, with only three dozen year-round inhabitants, its principal lifeline to the mainland are small airplanes. Known largely […]
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April 10, 2011

Movie Review: ‘Arthur’ so bad that it’s, well … awful

If you must see “Arthur,” choose a theater that serves alcohol. You’ll be needing it. Like a 3-D adventure, this fiasco is best viewed through beer goggles. A team of moviemakers takes millions of dollars, a classic comedy and a sheet of tracing paper, and produces a travesty. They had the blueprint for a great […]
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April 10, 2011

Movie Review: ‘Highness’ stoops to sporadically conquer

The 40th time you hear the f-bomb in a medieval setting isn’t nearly as funny as the fourth or fifth. That’s the shortcoming of the central conceit of “Your Highness,” a raunchy stoner comedy in tights from Team “Pineapple Express.” A Danny McBride vehicle directed and photographed by his pals from film school (University of […]
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April 10, 2011

Arts Planner

This week • He has been called the most famous organist in the world today, and such hyperbole is probably not too far off the mark. Cameron Carpenter returns to Portland to work his magic on the Kotzschmar Organ at Merrill Auditorium. Cameron performs at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in a concert presented by the Friends […]

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April 10, 2011

Corthell Hall to resound with new music

GORHAM — The mixed musical stylings of New York and Maine will be in evidence when the University of Southern Maine School of Music hosts a weekend of new music at Corthell Concert Hall on USM’s Gorham campus. It starts at 8 p.m. Friday with “Unaccustomed Earth,” a performance from the New York-based group Two […]
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April 10, 2011

Music Review: Conor Oberst continues his quest in a new ‘Key’

MINNEAPOLIS — With all the cosmic imagery on his recent albums, Conor Oberst could not have asked for a better setting than the riverfront park where his band Bright Eyes played two weeks ago in Austin, Texas, during the South by Southwest Music Conference. Those deep-in-the-heart Texas stars served as a backdrop, along with a […]
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April 10, 2011

Art Review: Great ideas well executed for ‘One World’ exhibit

There is a kind of collaborative art show that is born of great ideas and good intentions and bred by creative energy and innovative processes. Everything is terrific except, unfortunately, the art. Maybe it’s because more time was spent talking or scheming than on the art itself. Sometimes, the exciting ideas reach beyond the technical […]
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April 10, 2011

Music Q & A: Jeff Beck plays on, unswerving in his belief that Les is more

CHICAGO — When Jeff Beck first heard the music of Les Paul, it set him off on a mission to master the guitar and in the process become one of the defining instrumentalists in British rock. Last summer, Beck paid homage to the late, pioneering guitarist on what would have been Paul’s 95th birthday at […]
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April 10, 2011

Author Q & A: Off the beat

Steve Webster puts out a book about the cases that have stuck with him through years of police work in Maine.

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