Arts & Entertainment

Published
October 31, 2010

Arts Planner

On stage • A new Shakespeare play? Hardly seems plausible. See for yourself at 8 p.m. Monday, when the Acorn Shakespeare Ensemble continues the company’s 2010-11 season with another edition of the troupe’s “Sonnet and Soliloquies” series at the Wine Bar on Wharf Street in Portland. Monday’s pre-election edition will feature four selections from “Double […]
Published
October 31, 2010

Sunday Calendar

Art “John Haberle: Master of Illusion,” Portland Museum of Art, Portland, $4-$10. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and Tuesday through Thursday; 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. Through Dec. 12. “Debating Modern Photography: The Triumph of Group f/64,” Portland Museum of Art, $4-$10. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. […]
Published
October 31, 2010

Book review: Who ya gonna call?

It’s Halloween and you’re looking for a little fright reading – just in time comes ghost hunter David J. Pitkin with a new book on New England spirits.
Published
October 31, 2010

Signings, etc.

VAL WALKER When you sit down to write a sympathy card, do you freeze with worry as you try to write the “right” thing? A new book, “The Art of Comforting,” written by Maine resident Val Walker, addresses how we can offer comfort to people in distress. She’ll be talking about and signing copies of her […]
Published
October 24, 2010

Arts Planner

In concert • The Indigo Girls are back on the road and plan a tour stop in Portland on Saturday. The Georgia-bred and -based folk-rock duo will perform at 8 p.m. at Merrill Auditorium. Lucy Wainwright Roche opens. Saturday’s concert is part of the Return to Life benefit concert series, which in the past has […]

Published
October 24, 2010

Bob Keyes: Catching up with Konau, and other odds and ends

Britta Konau lost her job when the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport faced its financial meltdown last fall. But the curator has stayed active in the arts, and these days can be found popping in and out of galleries and museums across Maine. Always gifted with words, Konau is writing an arts blog […]
Published
October 24, 2010

On her own two feet

Long known for her artistry in toe shoes, Nell Shipman is branching out, taking a promotion at Portland Ballet and creating an ambitious original dance (just in time for Halloween).
Published
October 24, 2010

Taste & Tell: No. 10 Water: Handsome, warm, with a smart menu

BRUNSWICK — Sometimes dinner out should be comfortable, and No. 10 Water handles that requirement with ease. The restaurant suggests a long presence and a habit of generous hospitality via features such as tables spread far apart, friendly service, a wood floor that looks old and worn, and a gas fireplace that will be warming […]
Published
October 24, 2010

Arts Dispatches

AUGUSTA Project wins national award for ‘imaginative learning’ Maine’s Imagination Intensive Communities project was one of nine projects in the United States to receive a Best Practice award from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills at a national summit in Washington, D.C. The Maine project is a process developed by the Maine Alliance for Arts […]
Published
October 24, 2010

Book Review: Chute’s style, flinty Mainers make a mystery well told

In the world of fiction, tranquil country inns often become the stage for violence and mystery. So it is with the inn at the heart of “Coming Home” by Robert M. Chute, Maine poet, writer and professor emeritus in biology at Bates College in Lewiston. “Coming Home” is billed as “A Maine Mystery,” and it […]

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