Arts & Entertainment

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July 18, 2010

Arts Dispatches

AUGUSTA Cultural initiative will team Maine, New Brunswick Gov. John Baldacci has signed a memorandum of understanding with New Brunswick Premier Shawn Graham to establish a Maine-New Brunswick Cultural Initiative. The memorandum recognizes historical, cultural and artistic ties between Maine and the Canadian province. The agreement calls for exploration of collaborative cross-border cultural projects, as […]
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July 18, 2010

Arts Planner

This week • Harpswell artist John Bisbee will discuss his “Two Tons” installation at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art at 7 p.m. Tuesday. The installation is on view through Aug. 1. Bisbee, who teaches at Bowdoin College, constructs large, abstract sculptures from 12-inch steel spikes, which he welds together to create massive, patterned pieces. […]
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July 18, 2010

Galleries give us more reasons to love summer

For art galleries in Maine, summer is the best time of the year. In many ways, this is also true for the art-viewing public. One gallery owner seemed a bit surprised that I would want to discuss summer group shows in a review. In the broadest sense, he had a point, since most art reviews […]
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July 18, 2010

Bob Keyes: Colby shares its gifts

The public will benefit from the generosity of donors who gave the Colby College Museum of Art a major collection and the money to house it beautifully.
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July 18, 2010

Taste & Tell: White Lion adds flavorful bite to dining in Camden

CAMDEN – Oysters were a high point of a good dinner at the White Lion Raw Bar & Bistro. Someone in the kitchen had applied the salt and pepper to several dishes with gusto, but that made a lovely excuse for another glass of wine. The restaurant surrounds a wide granite bar, with ship models […]

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July 18, 2010

‘Double Vision’ contrasts photographs and paintings of coast

TREVETT – Photographer Paul Feyling and painter Brenda Bettinson team up for a two-person exhibition at Mathias Fine Art, “Double Vision: Encore!” The exhibition opens Wednesday and continues through Sept. 12. The artists will attend a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. July 31 at the gallery at 10 Mathias Drive in Trevett, a small […]
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July 18, 2010

Author Q&A: French Toast

Through hundreds of vintage photographs, Dyke Hendrickson's new book takes a fond look at the history and culture of Franco-Americans in Maine.
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July 18, 2010

Signings, etc.

Maine author and fisherman Linda Greenlaw will be making several appearances in Maine this week to promote her new book “Seaworthy: A Swordfish Boat Captain Returns to the Sea.” On Monday she’ll do a reading and signing at Sea Bags, a company that makes bags from recycled sails. On Tuesday she’ll be at Nonesuch Books […]
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July 18, 2010

‘Chuck Roast’? Delicious

Maine State Music Theatre cooks up a hilarious send-off for its departing and much-beloved artistic director Charles Abbott.
Published
July 18, 2010

‘Cookbook Collector’ fun until it all ends

Revisit the dot-com boom of the late 1990s through the eyes of two sisters.

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