Art “botanical propaganda,” multimedia work depicting urban and suburban plant life by Karen Gelard, Perimeter Gallery, Belfast. 338-0986. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. today. Group show, with work by Nina Jerome, Sandy Wadlington and Jeffery Becton, Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle. 348-9977. 2 to 6 p.m. today; 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday; 2 […]
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Taste & Tell: Local Sprouts Cafe: Fresh, funky and made to order
Local Sprouts Cafe, a business run by Local Sprouts Cooperative, uses local produce and products to cook up stir-fried tofu and jerk chicken, and serves them in an earthy, casual and laid-back atmosphere. In fact, the atmosphere is so laid back that the first time I arrived for dinner on a night I had arranged […]
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For Mad Horse, a housewarming by ‘Degrees’
PORTLAND – Mad Horse Theatre opens its 25th season this week in a new home. The company, known for presenting edgy and thought-provoking theater, has become the theater company in residence at Lucid Stage’s new performance space at 29 Baxter Blvd. The season begins with “Six Degrees of Separation,” a John Guare play that explores […]
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Movies: Moretz steals the show, but she’s still ‘just Chloe’
The 13-year-old star who made her mark in ‘Kick-Ass’ is now taking a bite out of the vampire genre.
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Signings, etc.
DAVID MORINE Conservationist and author David Morine will be discussing and reading from his book “Two Coots in a Canoe.” The book follows Morine and his friend Ramsay Peard, a retired CEO, as the pair embark on a journey of self-discovery, humor and whim by canoeing the Connecticut River. stopping and talking to folks along […]
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Concert Review: Kargul’s Chopin, Schumann dazzle
GORHAM – Pianist Laura Kargul has been waiting for the 200th birthday celebrations of Schumann and Chopin so she “can play them (exclusively) without guilt,” she said in opening remarks on Friday night at USM’s Corthell Hall. Her program, which included two all-time masterworks for piano, needed no special occasion. The concert hall was sold […]
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Film delves into Indian language, culture in Maine
Rockland-based documentary filmmaker Ben Levine will be at the Frontier Cafe in Brunswick on Tuesday to show and talk about his film “Language of America: An Indian Story.” Filmed over a period of six years in native communities throughout New England, the film shows how language is not only a tool for communication but a […]
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Books: ‘City by the Sea’ joyfully records the way we were and are
Readers of earlier reviews in the Maine Sunday Telegram may recall my comments of Nov. 8, 2009, on John Moon’s quite respectable Arcadia Press book, “Portland: Then & Now.” One is tempted to say that the author-photographer’s new volume is simply a new incarnation of the former, beautifully reformatted with half color and half black-and-white […]
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Photographic memories
Maine’s photo bender continues into October, with two major photography shows opening at two high-profile exhibition spaces in southern and midcoast Maine.
The Portland Museum of Art just opened “Debating Modern Photography: The Triumph of Group f/64,” which focuses on the schism that existed in photography in the 1920s and ’30s when a group of California photographers — Ansel Adams and Edward Weston most famously — challenged what was then the norm of soft-focus, posed and highly pictorial images.
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Arts Planner
Opening this week • The University of Southern Maine theater department begins its performance season with the comedy “Lend Me a Tenor,” directed by Wil Kilroy. Performances in the Russell Hall auditorium on the Gorham campus are at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Oct. 14-16, and at 5 p.m. Oct. 10 and Oct. 17. Tickets […]