Arts & Entertainment

Published
February 28, 2010

The sole of an artist

If the shoe fits, Kelly Jo Shows will paint it.
Published
February 21, 2010

Fan fare

Food, music and more are on the menu at a Portland Pirates benefit.
Published
February 21, 2010

This show’s got ‘SPUNK’

Penobscot Theatre's exploration of the African-American experience by an all-black cast – in observance of Black History Month – marks a first for the Bangor-based troupe.
Published
February 21, 2010

Maine State: Transition and a fond farewell

BRUNSWICK – The curtain rises on the Maine State Music Theatre summer season in four months, and Steven Peterson is ready. He’s lined up the shows and hired the directors, and is making casting decisions about the season-opening production of ”Always … Patsy Cline,” scheduled to open June 9. Before then, there are a million […]
Published
February 21, 2010

Signings, etc.

DWAYNE RAYMOND

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Published
February 21, 2010

Soup’s on in a big, bold way at Veranda Noodle Bar

Customers bow over the steam rising from huge china bowls of noodle soup at Veranda Noodle Bar. With patient pleasure, they start swooping up ribbons of thin noodles with chopsticks. Since slurping is entirely essential, dining takes on an aura of play as they poke and prod, diving after wontons and fishing out slivers of […]
Published
February 21, 2010

The way we were

Back in her hometown of Allagash, Cathie Pelletier collaborates with other residents on a book celebrating local lore.
Published
February 21, 2010

Alice shares tales from ‘Wonderland’ set

Tim Burton is back in theaters on March 5 with ”Alice in Wonderland” but, unlike the filmmaker’s ”Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” this bookshelf adaptation veers from its namesake source material in major ways. We spoke about that and other matters with 20-year-old Aussie newcomer Mia Wasikowska, who has the title role in the film, […]
Published
February 21, 2010

Arts Dispatches

PORTLAND: MECA receives three grants for Porteous Building project Maine College of Art recently received three grants to complete the restoration of the Porteous Building. The Maine Arts Commission provided $15,000 to equip Osher Hall, MECA’s 112-seat lecture hall, with Americans with Disabilities Act technology to ensure full accessibility. The Quimby Foundation supported the overall […]
Published
February 21, 2010

Arts Planner

This week • At 8 p.m. Saturday at Gorham Middle School, the Southern Maine Symphony Orchestra will perform the premiere of ”The Lost Art of Steam Heating,” a new piece by composer and teacher Travis M. Ramsey, a 2003 alumna of the University of Southern Maine — for orchestra and two cast-iron radiators. Yes, radiators. […]