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  • Published
    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 […]

  • Published
    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.

  • Published
    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 […]

  • Published
    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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  • Published
    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.

  • Published
    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 […]

  • Published
    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 […]

  • Published
    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.

  • Published
    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 […]