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July 11, 2010

Book review:Vida’s eye for details carries her novel

Vendela Vida tells the moving story of a journey by a widowed teacher.
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July 11, 2010

Art review:A tip of the hat to Colby for ‘Barnet’

The Colby College Museum of Art has a particularly interesting slate of shows on view. Sharon Lockhart’s new “Lunch Break” is an enormous installation of unusual scale and range that includes film, photography and found and borrowed objects. There is a gem of a Whistler show. There is also a show of 16 works by […]
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July 11, 2010

Taste & Tell:Monhegan’s Island Inn shows kitchen’s artistic ambition

MONHEGAN ISLAND – An excursion to Monhegan Island is about so much more than dinner that a meal by itself is hard-pressed to compete. But at the Island Inn, with its water-view dining room with Monhegan landscapes on every wall, you can certainly dine well. The handsome turn-of-the-century shingled building with third-floor dormer windows presides […]
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July 11, 2010

Society Notebook:One man with a vision

The Rev. Robert Howes is honored for the difference he made as the driving force in creating counseling services for those who needed them.
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July 11, 2010

Paint for Preservation event coming July 18

CAPE ELIZABETH – The Cape Elizabeth Land Trust’s third annual Paint for Preservation event, highlighted by the juried Wet Paint Reception and Auction, happens July 18. During the day of the event, the public is invited to observe 29 artists painting on site at designated public and private locations chosen to highlight Cape Elizabeth’s natural […]

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July 11, 2010

Paying fans staying away from summer concert tours

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The recession has finally caught up with the lucrative concert touring industry. The industry trade magazine and website Pollstar says gross revenue for the top 100 tours in North America in the first six months of 2010 is down nearly $200 million from last year. That’s a 17 percent drop in an […]
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July 11, 2010

Sounds like a case for Rizzoli and Isles

Actually, it's no mystery: Tess Gerritsen's crime-fighting heroines are the stars of a new TNT series. She'll be watching Monday's premiere with her neighbors.
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July 11, 2010

Classical Beat:Whence musical inspiration? Research points to insanity

On July 19, at Studzinski Recital Hall, the chair of the Bowdoin Music Department, Mary Hunter, will give a lecture titled “Hearing the Life in the Work? Madness, Joy, Oppression and Genius.” The talk is part of the new “Extra” series of the Bowdoin International Music Festival and one that should be marked with a […]
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July 11, 2010

‘Even if I don’t want to paint, I paint. I have to. That’s what artists do.’

Mired in an unrewarding career, lapsed artist Francine Shrock took up the brush again three years ago and hasn't stopped creating since.
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July 11, 2010

Movies: ‘Predators’ lacking in fear factor

They are dropped from the sky, with only a parachute to save them. They land in a lush green jungle whose topography seems to resemble no known place on Earth. All they can remember, from the moments prior to their arrival, is a flash of bright white light. There are eight of them, all of […]

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