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February 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 through Thursday; 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. Through March 13. “Rackstraw Downes: Onsite Paintings, 1972–2008,” Portland Museum of Art, $4-$10. 10 a.m. to 5 […]
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February 13, 2011

Scene & Heard Datebook

IF YOU’RE LOOKING to party, network or support a good cause this week, check out: MONDAY • Our Funny Valentines, 7:30 p.m., Bowdoin College Campus, Brunswick. Join Maine State Music Theatre for a cocktail and dessert party with silent auction items and then enjoy a concert with the stars of “Always … Patsy Cline.” $100. […]
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February 13, 2011

Signings

CHRIS VAN DUSEN Camden-based children’s author and illustrator Chris Van Dusen will be at Gulf of Maine Books to help the store celebrate 32 years in business in Maine. Van Dusen’s books include: “If I Built A Car”; “Learning to Ski with Mr. Magee”; “A Camping Spree with Mr. Magee”; and “The Circus Ship.” WHEN: […]
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February 13, 2011

53rd Grammy Awards: Another chance for those famously fickle voters

The Grammy Awards traditionally generate a mixture of love, hate and laughter, but one thing you can say about them: they’ve thrown predictability right out the window with the CD player. It’s hard to know just what those wacky voters will do next when they impart top honors to Herbie Hancock and Taylor Swift. Hancock’s […]
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February 6, 2011

Book review: South Portland cop’s ‘Promise’ a riveting action book

” ‘Are you going to catch them?’ she said. “I made the promise without hesitation or even a hint of uncertainty. ‘Yes, I told Alex. I’m going to catch those men so they can’t do this to anyone else.’ “That night, as I drove home to tuck my own kids in bed, my mind kept […]

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February 6, 2011

Book review: A weird, poignant swamp struggle

Karen Russell presents a moving tale of a family coping with a death.
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February 6, 2011

Bob Keyes: A career takes off at a gallop

BRISTOL – A stunning winter day reveals itself outside Sarah Lynn Richards’ loft studio. The mid-morning sun masks the biting cold and coats the white landscape in a sheet of light. Richards peers out across a snow-covered field that is smoothed into a slight arc by the wind but otherwise unblemished. A stand of trees […]
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February 6, 2011

Arts Dispatches

DEER ISLE Haystack School of Crafts receives $125,000 arts grant Haystack Mountain School of Crafts has received $125,000 from the Save America’s Treasures program, made in collaboration with the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The […]
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February 6, 2011

Arts Planner

This week • National Poetry Series winner Erika Meitner will read and sign copies of her books at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in The Landing in the University of Maine at Farmington’s Olsen Student Center. The event is free as part of the university’s visiting writers series. Recognized as “the new voice of intelligent and emotional […]
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February 6, 2011

Society Notebook: Rooting for green bay

The Friends of Casco Bay group gathers to celebrate successes and thank its volunteers.

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