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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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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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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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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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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 […]