PORTLAND – Spring is less than two weeks away, and many have begun ticking off the days on the calendar, eager for sunshine and the promise of new beginnings. Of course, as all of us Irish and Irish at heart know, that also means St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner, poised to pay […]
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West Java puppets will perform to gamelan
LEWISTON – The Bates College Gamelan Orchestra, joined by Indonesian puppeteer Apep Sobani and composer Wahyu Roche, performs at 8 p.m. Saturday in Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St. The program includes music, featuring compositions written for the Bates ensemble by Roche, and a performance of the Indonesian puppetry style called wayang golek, […]
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Sculptor goes diving for sunken treasure
WESTBROOK – Sometime after ice-out this spring, Portland artist Aaron Stephan will hop in a truck with a buddy and travel north to Moosehead Lake and the headwaters of the Kennebec River. They will scavenge for old-growth logs left over from the logging boom, buried in the mud in the depths below the surface. Hundreds […]
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Oscars’ In Memoriam always tugs at the heart
The moving segment can be painful to put together, says its producer.
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Classical Beat: DaPonte quartet unseals Janacek’s ‘Intimate Letters’
In my music library is a paperback by the British writer Nigel Cawthorne titled “Sex Lives of the Great Composers.” The great Czech composer Leos Janacek isn’t featured, but he should have been. Unhappily married, he consoled himself with a series of affairs that were found extremely shocking at the time. His most famous opera, […]
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Author elegantly invokes the gods
John Banville interweaves a gifted mathematician with parallel universes.
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Society Notebook: A creative mix
The Maine Bartenders Bash inspires tough competition – but it’s a smooth finish.
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‘Here and There’ is an evocative, compelling exhibit
“The Odyssey” is a Greek epic about Odysseus’ trek home after the Trojan War. The flip side of the story is about Penelope, the hero’s wife and mother of their son, who was just a month old when Odysseus left. Faithful Penelope thwarts the scores of suitors insisting she remarry by saying she will choose […]
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WATERVILLE Three students to compete in Poetry Out Loud finals Three Portland-area students will compete in the state Poetry Out Loud finals on Friday in Waterville. In this contest, 11 high school students compete. The winner will represent Maine at the national finals April 26-27 in Washington, D.C. Paige Meserve of Thornton Academy in Saco; […]