Carl Little’s retrospective on beloved Maine painter Dahlov Ipcar offers insight into a long, prolific career — and an ever-youthful, imaginative spirit.
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Book review: Exposing the slow boil of a marriage
A brilliant man — but lukewarm husband — is in the end revealed as a fool.
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Signings, etc.
– Massachusetts author Dennis Lehane has turned out a string of gritty novels that have been turned into gritty films, including “Mystic River,” “Gone, Baby, Gone,” and “Shutter Island.” He’ll be giving a free talk Friday night at the Rines Auditorium, in the recently renovated Portland Public Library. WHEN: 7 p.m. Friday WHERE: Portland Public […]
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Scene & Heard: Helping handbags
Funds raised at Purses with Purpose go to the Ronald McDonald House.
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Taste & Tell: Po’Boys has everything but the drawl
The linoleum isn’t worn, the framed photographs of New Orleans aren’t faded, and there’s no trombone or trumpet player getting folks dancing and leading them out into the street for an impromptu second line parade. But Po’Boys & Pickles serves up the real stuff nonetheless and it’s all so good. Gumbo ($5.25) — the word […]
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Arts Planner
Maine’s summer theater season begins anew this week, as both Ogunquit Playhouse and Maine State Music Theatre in Brunswick draw the curtain beginning Wednesday night. • Ogunquit opens with star power. Emmy Award-winning TV star, celebrity stylist, author and fashion designer Carson Kressley makes his theater debut in the musical “The Drowsy Chaperone.” Kressley, who has […]
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Book review: Get away from it all with trip to ‘Sumner Island’
Reviewers inclined to pigeonhole novels with words like “mystery” or “romance” will have a tough time pegging “Sumner Island.” Michael Cormier’s first novel is a murder mystery, to be sure. It’s also a romance and a fantasy in which modern-day characters mingle and fall in love with spirits of the dead. Whatever you choose to […]
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Keyes: Old Port Festival is, at the end of the day, about the music
It might seem that after 30-plus years, the Old Port Festival would run itself. If only that were true. In fact, the annual festival — set for a week from today — continues to be a lot of work for the organization that presents it year after year, Portland’s Downtown District. There are ever-evolving details […]
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Arts Dispatches
PORTLAND Portland painter chosen Monhegan resident artist Christopher Keister, a painter from Portland, has been named the 2010 Monhegan Island artist-in-residence by the Monhegan Artists’ Residency Corporation. Keister is a formalist painter with abstract tendencies. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2007. His work has been featured in the Center for […]
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Art review: Saco/Biddeford biennial anything but run of the mill
The “Mill-ennial” is a juried exhibition for artists connected to the Saco, Biddeford and Old Orchard Beach area. The organizers hope this will be a continuing biennial: This first incarnation makes a great case that the project will not only survive, but thrive. The juror for the Mill-ennial was Saco’s own Fred Lynch: a painter […]