Arts & Entertainment

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March 13, 2011

Art review: Art suitable for the fridge … and the PMA

March is Youth Art Month. While the Portland Museum of Art’s “Youth Art Month Exhibition” may be the most interesting of the dozens of exhibitions and events throughout Maine, it also reminds us to take a broader look at the value and effect of art education in Maine. Art is the first real vocational subject […]
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March 13, 2011

Arts Planner

This week • The Midcoast Symphony Orchestra, with guest conductor Graybert Beacham at the podium, presents “Spring the Light Fantastic,” a concert featuring the music of Suk, Debussy, Pierne and Schumann, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Franco-American Heritage Center in Lewiston and at2:30 p.m. March 20 at Orion Performing Arts Center, Topsham. The concerts […]
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March 13, 2011

Book Review: Senate’s ‘The Mosts’ earns its own superlatives

“The Mosts,” an edgy, readable story, gives fresh power to the insight that being young may pass but high school goes on forever. Often, self-image and self-esteem are shaped there, molded by teenage boys focused on sports and girls who accept and reject classmates as ruthlessly as they shop for clothes. Maine novelist Melissa Senate, […]
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March 13, 2011

Shepard play treats family with dark humor

PORTLAND – Mad Horse Theatre Company continues its run of Sam Shepard’s play “The Late Henry Moss” through March 27. Performances are at Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter Blvd., Portland. “The Late Henry Moss” is the latest installment of Shepard’s cycle of family plays. Two brothers meet up after the death of their estranged alcoholic father. […]
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March 13, 2011

Society Notebook: Best in Shows

The 2011 Portland Flower Show wins high praise -- and if you haven't yet seen it, there's still time today.

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March 13, 2011

Signings, etc.

CAITLIN SHETTERLY Portland author Caitlin Shetterly will discuss her memoir “Made for You and Me: Going West, Going Broke, Finding Home” (Hyperion) Wednesday as part of the Portland Public Library’s Brown Bag Lecture series. Shetterly’s book is about how she and her husband moved to California in 2008 as newlyweds to seek economic opportunities, only […]
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March 13, 2011

Dine Out Maine: Solo Bistro takes sophistication to an innovative level

BATH – Do you go out of your way to seek excellent cuisine? So do I. When you travel, do you spend a good chunk of your time determining where and how you’ll get good local food? Me too. Do you spend your weekends butchering a pig or fermenting libations? You lost me there. All […]
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March 13, 2011

Bob Keyes: Transplant blossoming in Manhattan

NEW YORK – It’s a mild late-winter morning as Nancy Margolis steps from the cab on a busy street in Chelsea. She pays her fare and walks up a short flight of stairs to begin another day doing what she loves most. It’s been almost 20 years since Margolis traded her art gallery space on […]
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March 13, 2011

Life in art

That Jerry Day Mason, 91, is still painting surprises no one who knows her.
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March 13, 2011

Audience Calendar

Art “Weston: Leaves of Grass,” Edward Weston photographs, Portland Museum of Art, $4-$10, free under age 6. 775-6148. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today. Ends today. “Rackstraw Downes: Onsite Paintings, 1972-2008,” 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. […]

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