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; poetry reading with local poets at 11 a.m., 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. Through March 13. “Rackstraw Downes: Onsite Paintings, 1972 — […]
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TESS GERRITSEN Camden’s Tess Gerritsen is a best-selling author who now has a TV show to her credit. The TNT crime drama “Rizzoli & Isles” is based on her characters. Gerritsen will be talking about the latest book in the “Rizzoli & Isles” series, “Ice Cold,” among other things, Wednesday at the Portland Public Library. […]
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Taste & Tell: District’s dinners are no-risk, straightforward crowd pleasers
District sits inside a building that has housed several popular night spots. A radical renovation has polished its rooms to a high gloss, and certainly the decor adds to the enjoyment of a meal or drink. With two floors and a railed opening on the second floor overlooking the bar, black-upholstered booths, red-brown chairs and […]
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Society Notebook: Rooting for green bay
The Friends of Casco Bay group gathers to celebrate successes and thank its volunteers.
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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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‘Always’ stars reunite for MSMT Valentine’s Day show
Maine State Music Theatre opens for a rare winter show to present a sweetheart-themed concert for Valentine’s Day. The show, “Our Funny Valentines,” stars the actresses who appeared in last summer’s hit show “Always … Patsy Cline,” Charis Leos and Jenny Lee Stern. They will perform an intimate concert at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 14 in […]
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The Contemporaries will host annual Winter Bash at museum
PORTLAND — The Contemporaries, a group of young art enthusiasts, will host its annual Winter Bash from 7 to 10 p.m. Thursday at the Portland Museum of Art. The museum will transform its Great Hall into an urban backdrop with graffiti art, fake construction sites and food carts. The “Urban Landscape” theme echoes the Rackstraw […]
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Super Bowl MADNESS
As the much-anticipated 2011 Super Sunday ads are about to air, we reflect back on a wacky 10 that became the stuff of TV-commercial legend.
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Art Review: Downes paints brilliantly, but misses on visceral connections
The works in Rackstraw Downes’ exhibition “Onsite Paintings, 1972-2008” at the Portland Museum of Art first struck me as psychologically disengaged renderings of unexciting panoramas. A typical Downes painting is a long, thin industrial landscape. “In the High Island Oil Field, February, After the Passage of a Cold Front” (1990), for example, shows the barren […]
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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 […]