Arts & Entertainment

Published
July 25, 2010

Big and bold opera is back

PORTopera returns to full production with 'Hansel and Gretel,' and chooses a story that deals with hard times.
Published
July 25, 2010

Art Review:Finding strength in ‘Sea Geometry’

Maine culture is defined by its relationship to our coast — gorgeous and bountiful but craggy and mortally tough. Our landscape is transcendentally beautiful, yet more often than not, impenetrably dense. Maine soars as a source of great paintings of Western culture. But the vast majority of these paintings are defined by the distance of […]
Published
July 25, 2010

Author Q&A:Hanging judgment

Jerry Genesio's new self-published book tells the fascinating tale of the first execution ordered under the U.S. Constitution -- which took place in Portland.
Published
July 25, 2010

Bob Keyes:Home of Homer expertise

PORTLAND – This coming weekend, the Portland Museum of Art will move one step closer toward establishing itself as the pre-eminent authority on Winslow Homer. On Friday and Saturday, the museum will host Winslow Homer Weekend. Scholars and invited guests from around the country will gather at Homer’s studio at Prouts Neck on Friday night […]
Published
July 25, 2010

In the Arts:Seeing Monhegan in cold, clear light

Monhegan is a lithic wonder. Less accessible than other pictorial icons, it has been less abused by painters. It submits itself as a bastion in a restless sea and as an exemplar of man against an often furious nature. Still, when reduced to canvas, those qualities, as forceful as they are, are anticipated and thus […]

Published
July 25, 2010

Signings, etc.

RICHARD SHAIN COHEN
Published
July 25, 2010

Scene & Heard Datebook

IF YOU’RE LOOKING to party, network or support a good cause this week, check out: TUESDAY • The Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital Open, 1 p.m., The Woodlands Clubs and Falmouth Country Club. Thirty-six hole shotgun golf tournament. http://fundraising.mmc.org. THURSDAY • A Conversation with Doris Buffet, 6 p.m., Strand Theatre, Rockland. Program will be followed by […]
Published
July 25, 2010

Classical Beat:When artists should end the show

Applause has been called “the custom of showing one’s pleasure at beautiful music by immediately following it with an ugly noise.” From time to time, music lovers have tried to do away with it during public performances, but all they have succeeded in doing is bewildering or embarrassing the performers. Still, at least two Maine […]
Published
July 24, 2010

Taste & Tell:Updated menu enhances island inn experience

CHEBEAGUE ISLAND – During the hottest time of the summer you want to escape the heat, even if only for dinner. A meal at an oceanside inn like the Chebeague Island Inn, presiding over the western side of the island and offering good dinners and a fabulous view, is just the ticket. But first you […]
Published
July 18, 2010

Without a flinch, peeling the layers of family

A book’s title should be a passport, of sorts, inviting our curiosity, making us want to know more. A case in point is the wondrously named collection, “I Just Lately Started Buying Wings,” by Kim Dana Kupperman. Winner of the 2009 Bakeless Prize for non-fiction, this book of 16 essays combines the energy and pacing […]

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