Arts Review
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PublishedSeptember 25, 2022
‘Don’t Worry Darling’: Trouble in a ‘Twilight Zone’-adjacent paradise
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PublishedSeptember 23, 2022
Concert review: Stevie Nicks as talented and charming as ever in Bangor show
The Fleetwood Mac singer's set Thursday was wide-ranging and pulled primarily from her solo career.
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PublishedSeptember 19, 2022
Theater review: Conflicts arise on and off the basketball court in ‘The Great Leap’
The co-production with New York's Hangar Theatre is playing at Portland Stage through Oct. 2.
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PublishedSeptember 19, 2022
Review: Ken Burns’ new documentary spotlights how little the U.S. did to stop the Holocaust
'The U.S. and the Holocaust' shows that Americans fell far short of their ideals in their treatment of Jews threatened with imminent murder in Europe. And the film suggests that the past is not past.
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PublishedSeptember 18, 2022
Review: In Elizabeth Strout’s latest novel, Lucy Barton confronts the pandemic
Despite its grim backdrop, 'Lucy by the Sea' offers considerable pleasures, among them a chance to spend more time with Barton, a recurring Strout character.
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PublishedSeptember 18, 2022
How to deal with climate refugees? Probably not like this
Proposals to force northern nations to accept migrants, and to geoengineer a cooler planet, could make our problems worse.
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PublishedSeptember 18, 2022
Art review: One show celebrates Surrealism, another mud. Both are terrific
At the Portland Museum of Art and Ogunquit Museum of American Art, respectively, see 'obstreperous' Surrealists, who proposed upending all art, and John Walker, who finds beauty, and meaning, in mud.
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PublishedSeptember 13, 2022
Concert review: Stadium-size sound from The War on Drugs, whatever the venue
The Philadelphia rock band played 1980s arena-style rock – reset for the modern era – to an enthusiastic Portland crowd.
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PublishedSeptember 11, 2022
In a debut novel set on a fictional Maine island, an unusual boy comes of age
The orphaned 'Faron Goss' struggles to overcome his haunted childhood in a tight-knit lobstering community.
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PublishedSeptember 11, 2022
Let’s turn the Farmer’s Almanac into something real – and useful
The perennial bestseller is now disconnected from its reason for being. It wants to evoke our affection for nature but shows little interest in human nature or science.
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