Arts & Entertainment

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June 20, 2010

Taste & Tell: Join the club for elaborate, appealing flavors of 91 South

GORHAM – Several of the ideas on the plates at 91 South catch the eye and the appetite. Rice noodles and thin strips of zucchini with shrimp, ginger, lime and grilled green onions is intriguing, and so is pizza with Manchego, caramelized onions and spinach. Quinoa — with dried fruit and almonds — made a […]
Published
June 20, 2010

Renovated library shines as art venue

Boston’s Copley Square is framed by Henry Richardson’s monumental Trinity Church (1872) on one side and McKim, Mead & White’s masterful Boston Public Library (1888) on the other. While Stanford White was the biggest name in the firm that was once the grandest feather in America’s architectural cap, his partner Charles McKim quietly designed many […]
Published
June 20, 2010

Young pianists descend for festival

The world continues to grow smaller at the Portland Conservatory of Music. This week, the conservatory hosts its annual International Piano Festival, featuring nearly two dozen students from around the United States and overseas, as well as respected professional players with ties to Maine. While the marquee concerts take place at the conservatory’s home at […]
Published
June 20, 2010

Books Q & A: They couldn’teat another bite

Andrew Caldwell's new book dishes on the last meals of the stiff and famous.
Published
June 20, 2010

Signings, etc.

Aruna Kenyi

Published
June 13, 2010

Arts Dispatches

PORTLAND Sousa, Broadway tunes on tap for July 4 Pops program The July Fourth Patriotic Pops program of the Portland Symphony Orchestra will include selections from Broadway shows and marches by John Philip Sousa. The PSO announced details of the Patriotic Pops program that will be performed as part of the Stars and Stripes Spectacular […]
Published
June 13, 2010

Book review: ‘Sea’ fills in a missing partof our maritime history

Portland’s Michael C. Connolly, professor of history at St. Joseph’s College, delivers again with a fact-packed but thoroughly entertaining history of the city’s Irish longshoremen with “Seated the Sea.” Not only does the book fill in a huge gap in the maritime history of Portland, the East Coast and the nation, but it deals directly […]
Published
June 13, 2010

Classical Beat: Thoughts on the banningof ‘idle amusement’

An item in The Portland Press Herald a week or so ago must have driven the financially beleaguered public school music teachers of Maine near to despair — or maybe it led them to think that they were not so badly off after all. The news was that the imams of Iran had decided to […]
Published
June 13, 2010

Art review: Space show featuresthe good, the bad and the puerile

Although I am supposed to be unbiased, I rarely give the benefit of the doubt to art marketed as “in,” “hot,” “hip” or “fashionable.” I have no problem with “hip” as a quality of fashion or music, because both are so self-consciously ephemeral. You change your clothes with every day and every shift in the […]
Published
June 13, 2010

Arts Planner

This week • Throughout the world, June 16 is known as Bloomsday, marking the day on which James Joyce’s epic novel “Ulysses” takes place. Portland joins in the celebration, as the Maine Irish Heritage Center and the American Irish Repertory Ensemble have planned Bloomsday Portland events for Tuesday and Wednesday. “This isn’t an esoteric gathering […]

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