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October 3, 2010

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. <br /><br /> 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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October 3, 2010

Society Notebook: Yes she can

Five Maine businesswomen are honored for their contributions to the state's economy.
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October 3, 2010

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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October 3, 2010

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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October 3, 2010

Calendar

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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October 3, 2010

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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October 3, 2010

Theater Review: Versatile PSC’s ‘Steps’ a marvel

PORTLAND – There are more “authors” cited for the theater version of “The 39 Steps” than there are actors in it. First among the former is Alfred Hitchcock, whose 1935 film of the story has long been known as a classic. But there was also John Buchan, whose novel formed the basis of Hitchcock’s movie. […]
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September 26, 2010

Book Review: Fighting illness, author finds solace in snail

Some story lines defy the odds. A book about an ailing woman who befriends a bedside snail, for instance, might seem cloying and schmaltzy on the one hand, or satirical on the other. In the case of Elisabeth Tova Bailey’s observational memoir, “The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating,” both woman and snail handily quash […]
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September 26, 2010

Book Review: Novel echoes author’s real life

David Grossman's 'To the End of the Land' tackles the Mideast conflict.
Published
September 26, 2010

Arts Planner

• In our rush to anoint a new celebrity diva with every turn of the moon, perhaps we’d be wise to remember the reigning diva has not relinquished her crown. There is no diva more deserving of the title than Liza Minnelli, a superstar by any measure. A winner of an Oscar, Tony, Grammy, Emmy […]

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