Grace Potter does. So do scores of other artists who are performing next weekend to help celebrate Record Store Day and the industry’s loudly beating heart.
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Art Review: Fore Street exhibition glows with Black brilliance
One of the greatest things about paintings is that you set your own pace for looking at them. You can see a lot in just a few seconds, or you can gaze at one for hours. Arts such as music, movies and theater, on the other hand, control the length of your experience. Some even […]
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Signings, etc.
Los Angeles-based author Lisa See will be reading from her book “Shanghai Girls” (Random House, 2009), which is now out in paperback. The book is about two Chinese sisters who grow up in comfort in 1930s Shanghai until their father gambled away the family wealth. He then sells his daughters to suitors from America, and […]
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Scene & Heard Datebook
IF YOU’RE LOOKING to party, network or support a good cause this week check out: TUESDAY PORTLAND GREENDRINKS, 5:30 to 8 p.m., Portland Museum of Art. Network with green business people, see the “Objects of Wonder” show and enjoy free beverages. $2 with a mug/$5 without. Funds benefit Konbit Sante. portlandgreendrinks.com THURSDAY BUSINESS AFTER HOURS, […]
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Keyes: Water Girl assumes her ‘place of honor’
PORTLAND — For more than 30 years, one of the most popular pieces in Portland’s public art collection has languished behind bars, literally and figuratively. With the reopening of the Portland Public Library this week, the Little Water Girl fountain finally has come out from behind the forboding, fenced-in courtyard in front of the library […]
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Theater Review: Dreamworld adds to the tales told the night before ‘Mary’s Wedding’
PORTLAND — Anyone who has ever remembered a dream knows how surreal dreams can be. Time periods collide, and things that really happened become intertwined with things imagined and things that might have been. Portland Stage re-creates this fantastic experience in a moving romantic drama, enacted from the meandering subconscious of Mary on the night […]
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Gerritsen and Shreve kick off festivities
PORTLAND — The fourth annual Maine Festival of the Book begins in Portland on Friday and continues through April 11. On Saturday, the Abromson Center at the University of Southern Maine hosts a full day of programs. All events are free and do not require a ticket, with the exception of an opening-night program with […]
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THAT ’70S SHOW
A new photography exhibition offers a look back at a very different Portland
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Book Review: In ‘Solar,’ McEwan leaves us wanting
This time out, Ian McEwan swings entirely too hard, too often at easy targets.
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Book Review: A poignant study of the wandering heart
Now and then, a book appears that is so absorbing, you portion it out to yourself chapter by chapter because you don’t want it to end. “The Secret of Joy” is that kind of book. It’s a novel with heart that explores the lives of 20- and 30-something women characters trying to straighten out their […]