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Arts & Entertainment, Maine, Review

Talea Ensemble shocks and amuses at Bowdoin music festival

by Steve Feeney July 8, 2024July 8, 2024

The classical musicians from New York City played works by contemporary composers from around the world.

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Review

Gripped by a mysterious illness, a Mainer finds an unexpected kindred soul

by Frank O Smith July 7, 2024July 2, 2024

In ‘American Breakdown,’ writer Jennifer Lunden spins twin tales of how the medical establishment dismissed her illness, and, some 100 years earlier, that of Alice James, the sister of Henry James.

Arts & Entertainment, Review

More summer art shows to see – out west, up the coast and close to home

by Jorge S. Arango July 7, 2024July 2, 2024

Make an old Victorian house in Norway, two galleries in Rockland and a South Portland frame shop your July art destinations.

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Review

The ‘nice lady’ next door who was actually a crime boss

by Lisa Birnbach Special to The Washington Post July 7, 2024July 2, 2024

Fredericka Mandelbaum made a fortune skirting the law in Gilded Age New York. Margalit Fox’s new book, ‘The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum,’ tells the fascinating true tale.

Arts & Entertainment, Review

Julia Gagnon’s down-home charm, big-time experience on display at Merrill

by Robert Ker July 1, 2024July 1, 2024

The ‘American Idol’ contestant sold out the Portland venue for her homecoming concert Sunday.

Arts & Entertainment, Do This, Maine, Review

Spirited ‘Funny Girl’ captures excitement of early musical theater

by Steve Feeney July 1, 2024July 1, 2024

The show that made Barbra Streisand famous is playing at Maine State Music Theatre through July 13.

Arts & Entertainment, Review

Double feature at Moss Galleries: Otherworldly paintings and creative photographic riffs

by Jorge S. Arango June 30, 2024June 26, 2024

Explore Nick Benfey’s ‘Light Springs’ in Portland, while Rose Marasco reinterprets the work of Lynne Drexler at the show in Falmouth.

Arts & Entertainment, Review

‘Kinds of Kindness’: A trilogy of twisted tales from Yorgos Lanthimos

by Ty Burr Special to The Washington Post June 27, 2024June 27, 2024

Life is cruel, all is vanity, the house always wins and the cosmic joke is on us. Everything in popular culture conspires to hide these truths from us because they’re a lousy way to make money. Occasionally, however, creative artists turn up to remind us of the facts, and they’re usually not American. Kafka. Nabokov. […]