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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Scene & Heard Datebook
MONDAY • Social Network of Maine, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Saltwater Grille, South Portland. Meet other local businesspeople in a casual happy-hour setting. Free. socialnetworkofmaine.com. THURSDAY • Artists of Freeport Opening Reception, 6 to 8:30 p.m., Thos. Moser Showroom, Freeport. View works by more than 10 local artists and meet other art enthusiasts. Free. 865-4519. […]
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Classical Beat: Book offers fascinating look at Mahler after 100 years
I just received a review copy of Norman Lebrecht’s new book “Why Mahler?: How One Man and Ten Symphonies Changed Our World” (Pantheon Books, 2010), which prompted some thoughts about the composer whose “Resurrection” Symphony (No. 2) was recently given a rousing performance by the Portland Symphony Orchestra and the Choral Art Society. Lebrecht is […]
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Author Q&A: Beyond horrible
Some of Elliott Epstein’s book recalling a notorious Maine murder may be hard to read, but in its larger context of child abuse, it’s important and timely.
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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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Book review: A weird, poignant swamp struggle
Karen Russell presents a moving tale of a family coping with a death.
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Book Review: It’s a ‘she said, he said,’ but through the book, we learn
Elizabeth De Wolfe, professor of history at the University of New England in Biddeford, has, in a rather short span of time, made a vivid and arguably lasting impact on the shape of and approach to regional history. Her first book, “Shaking the Faith: Women, Family, and Mary Marshall Dyer’s Anti-Shaker Campaign, 1815-1867” (2002) told […]
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Oscar Picks: Show us your grit and vote
This year’s Oscar nominations instantly conjure up some universal truths. For instance, all women (the ones I know anyway) seem to love Colin Firth. But does that mean he can grab a best actor Oscar for his role in “The King’s Speech” and stop Jeff Bridges from snagging his second in a row for “True […]
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Karen Gelardi opens at Old Port gallery
PORTLAND – Gallery 37-A hosts a new exhibition by South Portland artist Karen Gelardi, opening Friday. “In the Outside” is an installation that configures and recombines Gelardi’s work across a variety of media, including drawing, painting and printmaking. Gelardi studied painting at Rhode Island School of Design, and has been influenced by the manufacturing processes […]
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Author Q&A: Amen brother
Dan Harrington befriended some missionaries who prosthelytize door to door, joined them at times, and wrote a book about the experience.