Arts & Entertainment

Published
August 8, 2010

Signings, etc.

Paul Doiron, editor-in-chief of Down East magazine, will talk about his debut novel, “The Poacher’s Son,” a thriller set in rural Maine. The story focuses on an estranged son pulled into the search for a fugitive murder suspect – his father. Doiron will be speaking as part of the Portland Public Library’s Brown Bag Lecture […]
Published
August 8, 2010

Dance Review: Ballet juxtaposes formal ‘Concerti,’ abstract ‘Firebird’

Maine State Ballet’s summer offering is a balanced program including a crystalline new Bach ballet and a fiery Stravinsky classic. The program opened on Friday and continues next weekend in Maine State Ballet’s intimate theater in Falmouth. Placing artistic director Linda MacArthur Miele’s “Bach Concerti” (in its premiere) next to “The Firebird” raises interesting contrasts […]
Published
August 1, 2010

Book Review: ‘Sisters’ has staying power that’s first-rate

There are well-written books of Maine-based fiction appearing with ever increasing frequency. This is no doubt due to the growing number of college and work-shop trained authors and the fact that the novel is no longer “novel” in form but the “standard.” In the days of experiment most long works of fiction proved either popular […]
Published
August 1, 2010

Arts Dispatches

ORONO New England, Canadian arts groups to gather at UMaine Beginning Wednesday, the Maine Arts Commission will host a three-day conference, “Over the Edge,” for New England and Canadian arts presenters. The conference follows the signing of a memorandum of understanding between Gov. John Baldacci and New Brunswick Premier Shawn Graham to improve international cultural […]
Published
August 1, 2010

Arts Planner

This week • The Bowdoin International Music Festival comes to its close this week. The sixth and final Festival Fridays concert at 8 p.m. Friday at Crooker Theater in Brunswick High School features award-winning pianist Edward Auer performing Chopin’s 24 Preludes and Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61. Auer was a prize winner […]

Published
August 1, 2010

Auction features rediscovered works by major artists

PORTLAND — At its annual auction of American and European art on Friday night, Barridoff Galleries is offering at least 19 paintings by major American artists that were previously unrecorded or whose whereabouts were unknown for decades, according to gallery director Rob Elowitch. They include a 1914 oil-on-canvas impressionist painting by Reynold Beals, titled “Ivy […]
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August 1, 2010

Taste & Tell: Byrnes’ stays true to pub food, drink and ambience

Music fills the calendar at both the Byrnes' Irish Pub in Bath and its sister pub in Brunswick.
Published
August 1, 2010

Book Review: Crosley’s ‘Number’ takes on the world

New essays capture the melancholy and wisdom that come with living.
Published
August 1, 2010

Demand for the Bard

Shakespeare's being presented around the state to crowds with an apparent desire to hear his commanding language.
Published
August 1, 2010

Museum nets resplendent ‘Haul’

The piece is basically two layers of plastic remnants arranged in net-like grids.

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