Beginning Jan. 13, Good Theater presents the one-woman cabaret “Is There Fat in That?” at the St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress St., Portland. Ellen Domingos stars. The show tells Domingos’ story of growing up in Maine, winning a national beauty pageant and becoming a working actress and model in New York City. Through it […]
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Book Review: Gunther tale fraught with foreboding from the get-go
From the first sentence of “Red Herring,” you’re instantly caught by a sense of being privy to something secret and pregnant with meaning. Archer Mayor opens this book, his 21st in the Joe Gunther series, with the line: “Doreen Ferenc slipped her nightgown over her head and let it fall the length of her body […]
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Audience Calendar
Art “The Search for Beauty: Whistler and His Time,” drawings and paintings, Colby College (Museum of Art), Waterville. Noon to 4:30 p.m. today. “Sit Down! Chairs from Six Centuries,” chair collection of American and European seating furniture from 1470 to the present, Bowdoin College (Museum of Art), Brunswick, free. 725-3275. 1 to 5 p.m. today; […]
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Arts Dispatches
PORTLAND Choral Art Society giving Epiphany concert Saturday The Choral Art Society’s annual Epiphany Celebration will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Immanuel Baptist Church, 156 High St., Portland. The performance is one of the Choral Art Society’s most spiritual annual concerts. The 2011 Epiphany will feature the Camerata Chorus, a select group of […]
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Plein-air panorama
That’s the signature style of the painter Rackstraw Downes, and it’s on view now in a big way at the Portland Museum of Art.
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New on the Shelf
“Witch & Wizard: The Gift.” James Patterson and Ned Rust. Little,Brown. 342 pages. $17.99. Books, movies, music and art have been outlawed by an evil regime and its hateful leader, The One Who Is The One. Gone are the days of individualism and integrity, and with it the easy availability of cheeseburgers and rock ‘n’ […]
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Signings, etc.
GLENNA JOHNSON SMITH Ninety-year-old Presque Isle resident Glenna Johnson Smith will sign copies of her book, “Old Maine Woman, Stories from the Coast to the County,” on Saturday in Brunswick and on Jan. 9 in South Portland. Smith’s book is a collection of her columns for “Echoes” magazine and other works pondering life in Maine. […]
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Art Review: Show at City Hall a worthwhile drive into the imagination
An art market bubble burst in the late 1980s. An age of intoxicating indulgence was superseded by a new focus on craftsmanship, effort, skill and material mastery. Painters began using a wider range of materials, such as encaustic, and reinvigorated processes like glazing with oil paints. A high sense of finish came back into vogue, […]
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Author Q&A: Making the best of the worst of times
Charles Dickens’ wife of 22 years wasn’t the loser he claimed she was when he dumped her, a Bates College professor discovers.
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Book Review: Bully! for third Roosevelt chronicle
‘Colonel Roosevelt’ may describe a denouement, but Teddy still heaped his plate full, and with passion.