Arts & Entertainment

Published
August 29, 2010

Tonight’s Emmys could be ‘Glee’ful occasion . . . or not

The hit Fox series has 19 chances, but voters often stay with tried-and-true.
Published
August 29, 2010

Taste & Tell: Try the Korean and Japanese specialties at Soju in Portland

Inexpensive Korean and Japanese specialties served at Soju have a lot of things going for them. But given the spaciousness of this restaurant and the crowded Asian restaurant scene in Portland, Soju faces an uphill battle to pull in customers. And yet, some of us won’t mind its quiet surroundings while the rest of the […]
Published
August 29, 2010

Society Notebook: Red carpet rolls out

The Maine Summer Shorts Festival celebrates the thriving local film community.
Published
August 29, 2010

Calendar

Art “Lincoln Perry: Falling in Place,” George Marshall Store Gallery, York. 351-1083. 1 to 5 p.m. today; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday. Runs through Oct. 3. “Postcards from Maine,” member show, Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset. www.maineartgallery.org. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. today; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday; 10 a.m. […]
Published
August 22, 2010

Book Review: A treasure of architecture, art, history

“Drawing Toward Home” is the kind of book that hardly needs a review. Simply examining the volume, beautifully designed by Julia Sedykh with extraordinary architectural prints from Asher Benjamin’s “Elevation of an Ionick Front,” 1797, to Rammert W. Huygen’s “Perspective of the Harwood House,” 1973, offers a previously unavailable treasure chest of visual material. This […]

Published
August 22, 2010

Book Review: ‘Freedom’ savors the horrors of family

Jonathan Franzen returns with a monumental tale of relationship dysfunction.
Published
August 22, 2010

Classical Beat: Even in music, it can be a fruitful exercise to do the math

Lewis Kaplan, co-founder and artistic director of the Bowdoin International Music Festival, has a deservedly famous talk on J.S. Bach’s use of numerology in his musical works. I was surprised to find out last week that Debussy (and maybe Beethoven and Mozart and Schubert)) also experimented with mathematical ratios and series in at least some […]
Published
August 22, 2010

Arts Dispatches

SOUTH BRISTOL Jinishian Gallery opens location on Rutherford Island The J. Russell Jinishian Gallery of Fairfield, Conn., has opened a summer location at 2159 State Route 129 in South Bristol, on Rutherford Island, just up the hill from the swing bridge. The gallery is open by appointment through Labor Day. Call 644-1102. Visitors can view […]
Published
August 22, 2010

Arts Planner

This week George Marshall Store Gallery in York opens an exhibition Saturday of new work by Maine painter Lincoln Perry. Perry, who when not living in Maine also spends time in Virginia and Florida, is a seeker of the Maine landscape. In his latest body of work, Perry reconsiders familiar places — Fisherman’s Walk, Wiggly’s […]
Published
August 22, 2010

Lunch bucket brigade

Sharon Lockhart embedded herself at BIW, observing and documenting on paper and film the workaday habits and break-time rituals of employees there.

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