Arts & Entertainment

Published
January 30, 2011

Art Review: No smoke, but lots of mirrors in fun ICA show

Contemporary art is unpredictable. Sometimes it is dark and difficult, but every once in a while contemporary art is smart, fun and accessible to everyone — like the show about mirrors now on view at the Maine College of Art’s Institute of Contemporary Art. “Fracturing the Burning Glass: Between Mirror and Meaning” is an agonizing […]
Published
January 30, 2011

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 […]
Published
January 30, 2011

They won’t sit idly by

The program that trains young people to help govern nonprofits graduates its first 25 young professionals.
Published
January 30, 2011

Arts Dispatches

AUGUSTA LePage announces search for the next poet laureate Less than a month from the time he booted Maine poets from his inauguration, Maine Gov. Paul LePage has issued a call for nominations for the position of Maine State Poet Laureate. Nominations will be accepted until Feb. 25. The Maine Arts Commission and Maine State […]
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January 30, 2011

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 […]

Published
January 30, 2011

Scene & Heard Datebook

IF YOU’RE LOOKING to party, network or support a good cause this week, check out: TUESDAY • Maine Successful Thinkers Meetup, 5 p.m., Lifeworks Chiropractic Center, Falmouth. Network with other local business people and enjoy a cash bar. Free. www.meetup.com/MaineSuccessfulThinkers THURSDAY • Business Bowl, 6 to 8 p.m., Bayside Bowl, Portland. Network with other business […]
Published
January 23, 2011

Book review: Science drama? Ax Pluto, you’ll see

A Caltech astronomer offers interesting insights to the world of research.
Published
January 23, 2011

Arts Planner

This week • Go see “The Goat.” Just go. Edward Albee’s shocking and disturbing play about a brilliant architect and his midlife meltdown highlights a rich and varied winter of theater in and around Portland. Mad Horse Theatre Company presents Albee’s “The Goat, or Who Is Slyvia” through Feb. 6 at Lucid Stage, 29 Baxter […]
Published
January 23, 2011

Book Review: Bakewell examines in depth the culture of ‘madre’

In her illuminating new book, Liza Bakewell of Freeport, a linguistic anthropologist with sparkling credentials, turns to a single Mexican-Spanish word, “Madre,” and discovers controversies and challenges centered on women in Mexico. Beyond the obvious public issues in our headlines, all is not serene in our neighbor’s house. That Bakewell should point this out, with […]
Published
January 23, 2011

College president exhibits her photos of Guatemala

KENNEBUNK — Heartwood College of Art is showing photographs by college President Berri Kramer from her recent journey to Guatemala. The show is titled “Bringing It Home: A Visual Journey of the Villages of Conception and Zunililito, Guatemala.” In her work, Kramer tries to capture the joy and innate personal happiness exuded by the people […]

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