IF YOU’RE LOOKING to party, network or support a good cause this week, check out: TUESDAY • DownEast Pride Alliance, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Pat’s Pizza, Old Port, Portland. Network with members of gay-owned and gay-friendly businesses and enjoy drinks and appetizers. Free. www.depabusiness.com. WEDNESDAY • Kids & Claws, 5:30 p.m., Portland Expo, Portland. Shoot […]
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Society Notebook: Planting for the future
The Friends, Food and Fort Williams party kicks off public fundraising for a park arboretum.
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‘Three Little Pigs’ aiming to bring the house down
LEWISTON — The Public Theatre is producing an original musical adaptation of “The Three Little Pigs” for preschool children through fifth-graders. The play opens today and runs through Friday. This little piggy likes Facebook. This little piggy likes shopping. This little piggy likes homework. Which little piggy will escape the big bad wolf and choose […]
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Bob Keyes: The Portland mystique proved irresistible
PORTLAND – Daniel Fuller left a perfectly fine job in Philadelphia for the chance to run a gallery in Portland. Philly, of course, is one of the great cities of the East Coast with a world-class art scene. Fuller worked as senior program specialist for the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, a program of the Pew Charitable […]
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Signings, etc.
WESLEY McNAIR Wesley McNair and other Maine poets will be reading from the new book “Maine in Four Seasons: 20 Poets Celebrate the Turning Year” (Down East Books) at the Portland Public Library on Wednesday. The other poets who have work in the book and will read include: Thomas Carper, Martin Steingesser and Gary Lawless. […]
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Arts Planner
This week • Folk music icon Arlo Guthrie brings his “Journey On” tour to the Center for the Performing Arts at Newton Hall, Kents Hill School, Readfield. Guthrie will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. The concert will be the second in the Aleigh Mills Concert Series, which supports the Aleigh Mills Scholarship Fund. The scholarship […]
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Taste & Tell: Whaddapita! makes a big, bold Greek statement
With completely friendly service full of enthusiasm for the offerings, ordering a meal at Whaddapita! is easy enough to do. Add to that welcome, nicely grilled chicken and pork laced on sticks, a spicy sauce that really heats up your mouth, creamy tzatziki that cools it down, and delightful freshly made fries, and you have […]
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Art Dispatches
HARPSWELL Open houses will be held at businesses next month Eighteen studios, shops, galleries and eateries in Harpswell, including the islands, peninsula and Cundy’s Harbor, will celebrate the holidays with community open houses from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 4-5 and 11-12. Harpswell is also celebrating the reopening of the historic Cribstone Bridge. Visitors […]
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Manns on a mission
CAMDEN – The boxer Baron, standing alert and upright, answers the doorbell with a bark. The dog’s master, Robert Manns, follows closely behind with a good-natured bark of his own. “We usually think of New York as very quick,” says the aged and witty playwright, explaining why it’s taken America’s theater capital so long to […]
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Book Review: Fisherman’s tales rich with the flow of life
All great fishing stories are never about just fishing. This is certainly true for Maximilian Werner’s “Black River Dreams,” a collection of essays on fishing, primarily fly-fishing. It is more memoir than a mere collection of pieces. It begins and ends with stories set in Maine, the first when Werner was a boy of 11 […]