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December 5, 2010

Arts Dispatches

KENNEBUNK Boston String Quartet offers holiday program on Dec. 18 The Boston String Quartet will perform a new holiday program, “Christmas in Buenos Aires,” at 7 p.m. Dec. 18 at St. David’s Episcopal Church on Route 1. The Boston String Quartet, known for its unique sound and contemporary playing techniques, has collaborated with famous performers […]
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December 5, 2010

Hidden gem

World-class tenor John McVeigh felt his passion for music slipping away until a move to Portland and the discovery of a latent talent rekindled the flame.
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December 5, 2010

Holiday Arts Planner

The next two weekends offer a great variety of holiday entertainment in southern Maine. Here’s a sampling: • The Portland Symphony Orchestra launches the 2010 edition of “Magic of Christmas” at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Merrill Auditorium in Portland. “Magic” continues with 10 additional performances through Dec. 19. Maestro Robert Moody will lead the orchestra […]
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December 5, 2010

Society Notebook: In a medical mood

Outstanding local health pros are feted at the Hanley Center Honors reception.
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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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