BOOTHBAY HARBOR – The season, the time of the day, sometimes just the weather will dictate which job Jen Casad will do today. Casad, 33, lives in Boothbay and supports herself with her drawing and with her clamming. She’s a talented artist and a darn fine fisherman. Lately, she’s also become a bit of a […]
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PHYZGIG!
Acorn Productions’ annual homage to classic vaudeville is happening today – and all week – at Portland Stage Company and Space Gallery.
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Best-Sellers
FICTION HARDCOVER 1. “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth,” by Jeff Kinney (Abrams) 2. “The Confession,” by John Grisham (Knopf Doubleday) 3. “Learning to Ski with Mr. Magee,” by Chris Van Dusen (Chronicle Books) 4. “Full Dark, No Stars,” by Stephen King (Simon & Schuster) 5. “Dead or Alive,” by Tom Clancy (Penguin […]
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Author Q&A: This just in
A reporter once herself, Rosemary Herbert makes a journalist the main character in her first mystery, the newly published ‘Front Page Teaser.’
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Art Review: One artist’s unflinching Katrina story
What would happen if you lost everything? When we were bringing toys to the fire station last week, one of my young sons asked whom they were for. For kids whose families had “lost everything in fires and hurricanes” answered my other son. While I filled in more of the truth about the Christmas gift […]
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Book Review: Fascinating voyage through our neighbor to the east
Simon Winchester certainly knows how to make the most of uncomfortable predicaments. Whether it is a dicey week on Greenland’s icy mountains as a geology student at Oxford University, or a spell in an Argentine jail on espionage charges during the Falklands War, he turns the experience into a great account. That account is realized […]
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Art Review: Exhibit honors Maine’s sturdy tradition of fresh air painting
Plein air painting is when artists head into the landscape to work directly from nature. It is the bread and butter of Maine’s storied role in American art. It first became popular in France in the 1870s following the invention of the paint tube. The newfound portability of paint had a massive effect on style. […]
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Taste & Tell: Pai Men Miyake means delicious meat-happy meals
This story was updated at 1 p.m. Dec. 20 to correct a description of the restaurant’s hot drinks. It does not serve coffee. Pai Men Miyake opened to an onslaught of customers and attention a few months ago, and all the excitement made it a challenge to wait out the allotted time that’s always […]
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Quick Hit
The Portland Museum of Art has opened a new exhibition of landscape painting by one-time Maine painter Rackstraw Downes. Downes will discuss his work Jan. 6 at Holiday Inn by the Bay. For details and information, call the museum at 775-6148 or visit www.portlandmuseum.org.