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December 5, 2010

Taste & Tell: Mainers will warm to spicy Korean food at Little Seoul

Korean food is making inroads in Portland, winning devotees to its seafood dishes and soup. Little Seoul, which hedges its bets by offering customers teriyaki, sushi and specialty maki, cooks Korean cuisine to a T, at least when it comes to stir-fried octopus. In fact, as an American novelist wrote about one of his characters, […]
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December 5, 2010

Bob Keyes: Projecting the power of words

Jenny Holzer covers the world with poetry. Holzer, a conceptual artist from New York, projects words and ideas on the sides of rugged mountains, across sprawling deserts and on top of rippling bodies of water. On Tuesday, Holzer will be in Portland for a site-specific projection of the words of Nobel Prize-winning poet Wislawa Szymborska […]
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December 5, 2010

Art Review: ‘False Documents’ is genuinely excellent

Giovanni Morelli might be the most important art historian you’ve never heard of. That’s not surprising given that art historians rarely affect our daily lives. If, however, you believe that you have a subconscious or that dream imagery is meaningfully tied to the residue of our real lives, then your understanding of the human mind […]
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December 5, 2010

‘Snow-Bound’ comes to Portland arts center

PORTLAND – Actor, director and filmmaker Michael Maglaras will perform John Greenleaf Whittier’s masterful poem “Snow-Bound” at 3 p.m. Dec. 12 at the St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress St. It will be an hour-long reading, with Charles Ives’s “Concord Sonata” as a musical backdrop. Donna McNeil, director of the Maine Arts Commission, will introduce […]
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December 5, 2010

Best-Sellers

FICTION HARDCOVER 1. “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth,” by Jeff Kinney (Abrams) 2. “Full Dark, No Stars,” by Stephen King (Simon & Schuster) 3. “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest,” by Stieg Larsson (Knopf Doubleday) 4. “The Confession,” by John Grisham (Knopf Doubleday Publishing) 5. “Hell’s Corner,” by David Baldacci (Grand […]

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December 5, 2010

Book Review: Lehane back with sequel to ‘Gone’

Eleven years after Dennis Lehane's last Kenzie-Gennaro book, Amanda McCready is missing again.
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December 5, 2010

New on the shelf

“A Voice From Old New York: A Memoir of My Youth” by Louis Auchincloss. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 224 pages. $25. A prolific chronicler of New York’s high society in more than 60 novels, short story collections and nonfiction works, Louis Auchincloss concluded his career with a slim memoir. “A Voice From Old New York” addresses […]
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December 5, 2010

Signings, etc.

JOHN MOON Portland author John Moon will discuss his new photo history book “City by the Sea: A Photographic History of Portland, Maine” (Elysium Press, $40). The book includes 19th century photos compared with Moon’s contemporary color photos of the same areas. WHEN: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today WHERE: Nonesuch Books & Cards, Mill […]
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December 5, 2010

Author Q&A: The man, the myth, the gun lover

Mainer Silvio Calabi explores the life of Ernest Hemingway through the prism of his passion for hunting and firearms.
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December 5, 2010

Book Review: Two worthy new volumes about Maine history

Back in the 1970s, I recall, Maine history books generally came in two rather distinct forms: scholarly and popular. There was a tendency for the former to be rich in information and dull as dirt and the latter to be as colorful as a Roswell event and just as substantive. Times change. Now a variety […]

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