Arts & Entertainment

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February 28, 2010

Academy Awards presenters getting younger with each passing day

As Oscar night draws closer, the average age of the announced presenters is descending by the day. Show producers, clearly attempting to woo potential teenage watchers, recently announced Miley Cyrus, Zac Efron, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner would appear on the program (Cyrus and Efron for the second time, Stewart and Lautner for the first). […]
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February 28, 2010

‘Crazies’ remake filmed with Sadistic precision

”The Crazies” rocks. This remake of George A. Romero’s 1973 biological warfare shocker is a trim, taut, terrifying essay in homespun horror. If Pa in Grant Wood’s ”American Gothic” had impaled Ma on the end of that pitchfork, the scene would fit right in. The setting is bucolic Ogden Marsh, Iowa, the sort of upright […]
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February 28, 2010

Art teachers create instructive show of their own

When the subject in school is literature, we don’t give our kids paper and pens and tell them to write a novel. Yet in art class, we often stick brushes in their hands and tell them to paint pictures. Shouldn’t visual education be more than self-expression? An exhibition organized by the Maine Art Educators Association […]
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February 28, 2010

Arts Planner

This week • Beginning Friday, the Addison Woolley Gallery presents ”Ghana: An African Portrait Revisited,” an exhibition of photography from the sub-Saharan country. The show opens with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday as part of the Portland First Friday Art Walk. The exhibition will remain on view through March 26. The gallery […]
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February 28, 2010

scene & heard datebook

IF YOU’RE LOOKING to party and network this week, check out: WEDNESDAY LEAGUE OF YOUNG VOTERS REIGNITE, 6:30-8:30 p.m., North Star Music Cafe, Portland. The mixer will give members and interested voters a chance to hear about and shape the organizations plans for 2010. THURSDAY GLENN RENELL OPENING RECEPTION, 5-7 p.m., Greenhut Galleries, […]

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February 28, 2010

Fascinating, little-known tale stars star-crossed Mainers

You might imagine that a book about a battle waged on the Niagara peninsula in June 1813 would have little to do with Maine or Mainers. But then — as Canadian journalist James Elliott proves in his exciting and insightful new book, ”Strange Fatality: The Battle of Stoney Creek, 1813” — you’d be wrong. Stoney Creek […]
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February 28, 2010

Giving cancer the cold shoulder

Shaw's employees – including one very determined penguin – raise nearly $40,000 in a polar dip.
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February 28, 2010

Hill country

Author Joe Hill is back with a new tale that treads the happily familiar territory of black humor, horror and page-turning suspense.
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February 28, 2010

Society Notebook: Meet the neighbors

A mixer for South Portland's Knightville section is a resounding success, despite a blustery storm outside.
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February 28, 2010

Signings, etc.

GERRY BOYLE