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  • 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. […]

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