Arts & Entertainment

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April 18, 2010

Book Review: A novel of modern manners, well told

Sebastian Faulks mixes a keen reporter's eye with entertaining intelligence.
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April 18, 2010

Book Review: Want an original story line? Meet the Beevers

“Shark Girls” is an intriguing novel about two Hawaii-born women, their lives bound together by a shark attack that amputates a child’s leg. Inspired by an actual shark attack resulting in a boy’s death 52 years ago, author Jaimee Wriston Colbert uses the incident as a jumping-off point in a tale that weaves Hawaiian shark […]
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April 18, 2010

Classical Beat: Hooked on cajones, the box with a beat

I wonder if percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie, who appeared recently with the Portland Symphony Orchestra, ever plays the cajon? Judging from her fantastic work on the snare drum, it might have been more interesting than the neo-Romantic concerto for marimba that followed her 12-tone snare-drum concert-piece. The marimba, sniffs musicologist Percy Scholes, is an instrument […]
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April 18, 2010

Arts Dispatches

AUGUSTA Maine authors earn awards for children’s literature Five Maine authors and illustrators were honored Thursday at a children’s literature conference in Augusta. The Lupine Awards for outstanding contributions to Maine literature for young people and the Katahdin Lifetime Achievement Award were presented at the Reading Round Up Conference at the Augusta Civic Center. Since […]
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April 18, 2010

Movies: Being good isn’t enough: Heroes need a gun or three

'Kick-Ass" takes crime-fighting teens and adds generous dollops of gore, violence and weaponry.

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April 18, 2010

Keyes: A special night for friends of Bill

PORTLAND — Dan Jackson wasn’t a friend of Bill Chinnock’s. He didn’t know him, and never met him. But Jackson was a fan. He used to go to Chinnock’s concerts around Maine, and when Chinnock died three years ago, Jackson attended the funeral. “I needed to pay my respects,” he said. This coming Saturday, Jackson […]
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April 18, 2010

Arts Planner

This week • This one will be fun. Music director Robert Moody will be jiving from the podium when he leads the Portland Symphony Orchestra and guests Motor Booty Affair in a PSO Pops! tribute to the music of the ’70s. The orchestra will perform hits from the Eagles, Queen, the Village People and other […]
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April 18, 2010

Andrew Cyr is having a classical gas in NYC

The Fort Kent native is happily making his way in Manhattan, bringing new chamber music to the city's hip night spots.
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April 18, 2010

Art Review: Gleason’s ‘Monhegan’ gets at what it is about Maine painters

Since the late 19th century, Maine has been one of the premier hubs for art in America. For most of this time, it has been a refuge for artists bent on working away from the pressures of the art world. With a gallery boom and major expansions at the Portland Museum of Art, the Bowdoin […]
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April 18, 2010

Taste & Tell: No same-old, same-old at adventuresome Zeta Cafe

SOUTH PORTLAND — Sometimes you get an idea in your head and run with it. Sugar, for instance, comes in handy in apricot crisp. In a syrupy sauce for a grilled pork chop, it might be too much of a good thing, but it works for most of us. In Caesar dressing, it tastes wrong, […]

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