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September 26, 2010

Taste & Tell: Trattoria Athena’s cuisine piques curiosity, taste buds

BRUNSWICK – Greek and Italian cuisine celebrate their differences at Trattoria Athena, where the wise-in-counsel namesake would be pleased to see her gift of olives appreciated in an olive oil “service” ($2.50). It’s also clear someone wise in counsel came up with a thoroughly intriguing menu, highlighted by enough unusual dishes to sharpen any food […]
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September 26, 2010

PSO Season Preview: ‘Great music is great music’

That's what conductor Robert Moody stresses on the eve of the 2010-11 season, not all of which fits neatly into the 'classical' box.
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September 26, 2010

Arts Dispatches

LEWISTON Bates College names new art museum director Dan Mills is the new director of the Bates College Museum of Art. Mills comes to Maine from Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, where he served as director of the Samek Art Gallery for nine years. Bates President Elaine Tuttle Hansen has asked the institution to renew its […]
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September 26, 2010

Art Review: Art gallery show is a wide-ranging delight

Nationally, Maine’s art reputation is in no small part held aloft by schools dedicated to the arts such as the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, the Watershed School for the Ceramic Arts and the Maine College of Art. As well, our top-shelf colleges dedicated to the liberal arts […]
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September 26, 2010

Best-Sellers

FICTION HARDCOVER 1. “Safe Haven,” by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing) 2. “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest,” by Stieg Larsson (Knopf Doubleday) 3. “Wicked Appetite,” by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin’s Press) 4. “Freedom,” by Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) 5. “Mockingjay,” by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic) 6. “The Help,” by Kathryn Stockett (Penguin) […]

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September 26, 2010

Camden International Film Festival opens for sixth year

CAMDEN – The Camden International Film Festival opens Thursday, and will present 46 films that represent the best in documentary filmmaking. The festival runs through Oct. 3 throughout Camden, Rockport and Rockland. The 46 films were selected from more than 300 submissions. Many are United States and regional premieres. The festival, now in its sixth […]
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September 26, 2010

New on the Shelf

“The Elephant’s Journey.” Jose Saramago. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 288 pages. $24. Summer, 1551. The King of Portugal gives Maximilian, regent of Spain and archduke of Austria, an elephant as a belated wedding present. There is just one small problem: getting the elephant from Lisbon to Vienna.
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September 26, 2010

Ray Charles Library opens

On what would have been his 80th birthday, Ray Charles joined the likes of past presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan with his own namesake library in southern California. The Ray Charles Memorial Library officially opened its doors Thursday night. Housed in the studio and office building Charles built in South Los Angeles in the […]
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September 26, 2010

Book Q&A: Punk scene revisited in ‘American Hardcore’

The author of the bible of the hardcore punk movement is out with a new edition and heading to Maine to talk about the musical genre and its legacy.
Published
September 26, 2010

Signings, etc.: Lily King

Maine author Lily King will be reading from and talking about her third novel, “Father of the Rain,” which fellow Maine author Richard Russo has called “one of the most richly satisfying and haunting novels I’ve read in a long time.” King will be speaking as part of the library’s Brown Bag Lecture series, so […]

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