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May 16, 2010

Arts Dispatches

BETHEL Local arts groups invited to participate in annual fair The Mahoosuc Arts Council will produce the 21st annual Bethel Art Fair on July 3. The council is creating an Open Space Gallery concept to accompany the fair, where any artist or arts group with a studio or gallery space can be included on a […]
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May 16, 2010

Arts Planner

Last week for Beckmann • Time is running out on “Modernism and Masquerade: Max Beckmann,” the second-floor exhibition of graphic work on view at the Portland Museum of Art. The show closes May 23. This exhibition features approximately 40 prints from the German master. The museum, at 7 Congress Square Plaza, is open 10 a.m. […]
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May 16, 2010

Book Review: Boston firm drove Maine’s cottage industry

While perusing “Peabody & Stearns: Country Houses and Seaside Cottages,” about the Gilded Age architectural firm Peabody & Stearns, one cannot help but think back to the 1960s, when historic American architecture was hardly a topic, let alone a field of study. In those days, even the brightest liberal arts student, unless hailing from an […]
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May 16, 2010

Classical Beat: Bowdoin hosts student virtuoso series

The Bowdoin International Music Festival, June 26-Aug. 7, one of the world’s best known – it was the only Maine festival listed in The New York Times summer festival preview this year – continues to evolve, with new programs, concert venues, artists, students and teachers. This year will see the first student virtuoso series; “Extra” […]
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May 16, 2010

Movies: Comic-bookish Robin in the ‘hood this go-’round

“Robin Hood,” the latest collaboration between star Russell Crowe and director Ridley Scott, may have its roots in the foggy past of 12th-century legend about the man in tights who robbed the rich and helped the poor. But, with its origin-story approach, jut-jawed good guys, hiss-worthy bad guys, splashy action, and setup for a sequel, […]

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May 16, 2010

Taste & Tell: Crab cakes give beef a run for the money at Steakhouse

WELLS – A properly cooked steak is one of the most popular meals in America, and The Steakhouse serves them up best medium rare. The menu blazons the restaurant’s loyalty to corn-fed “heavy Western beef” rated Choice and Prime by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a superior grade of beef that’s nicely marbled with fat […]
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May 16, 2010

Books Q & A: History in the making

Loretta Krupinski brings to life Maine waterfronts as they once were.
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May 16, 2010

Night of nights

Prom season's here and the kids are, as usual, stylin.'
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May 16, 2010

Oratorio Chorale takes on a ‘Whale’ of a challenge

The Oratorio Chorale has adopted an aesthetic of adventure. It doesn’t shrink from challenges. The community chorus will be tested this week when it presents composer Dominick Argento’s “Jonah and the Whale” at Falmouth Congregational Church. “This is a very big effort. It’s a demanding piece of music,” said Peter Frewen, the chorale’s director for […]
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May 16, 2010

Review: Sheer poetry: the paintings of Nancy Morgan-Barnes

The irony of poetry is that it must be presented literally verbatim for its rhythms, forms and gestures to fairly unfurl their complexity and subtly colored content. Stories, on the other hand, are the stuff of prose — so any retelling is valid. Nancy Morgan-Barnes’s painting “Little Red Riding Hood,” now on view in Greenhut’s […]

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