Arts & Entertainment

Published
April 11, 2010

Scene & Heard Datebook

IF YOU’RE LOOKING to party, network or support a good cause this week check out: TUESDAY PORTLAND GREENDRINKS, 5:30 to 8 p.m., Portland Museum of Art. Network with green business people, see the “Objects of Wonder” show and enjoy free beverages. $2 with a mug/$5 without. Funds benefit Konbit Sante. portlandgreendrinks.com THURSDAY BUSINESS AFTER HOURS, […]
Published
April 4, 2010

Scene & Heard: Culture bash

CeleSoiree raises awareness and funds for the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project.
Published
April 4, 2010

Opera Review: Attention to detail, sensitive direction pay off in ‘Porgy’

PORTLAND — Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” is a tough act to follow. So many great sopranos and bass-baritones have sung the title roles that it is little short of amazing that the new road show, which came to Merrill Auditorium on Friday night under the auspices of Portland Ovations, could hold the interest through three […]
Published
April 4, 2010

Hyde: Back Cove Music Festival to beat with the pulse of Maine composers

Anyone interested in contemporary music, and even those who aren’t sure, should set aside April 17 and 18 for the second annual Back Cove Contemporary Music Festival at the Portland Conservatory of Music in the Woodfords Congregational Church. Programs are scheduled for 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. April 17 and 7:30 p.m. April 18. Last […]
Published
April 4, 2010

Art Review: DeGennaro’s ‘Indigo’ show draws skillfully on Christian symbols

Western culture is steeped in Christian art. Modern musical notation was developed in the Catholic Church. Michelangelo worked directly for the pope. For centuries, most of our culture’s greatest art was commissioned by the church. Symbols, subjects, styles, aesthetics and much more that came out of the ecclesiastical tradition are still very much part of […]

Published
April 4, 2010

Taste & Tell: Sonny’s proves a bold new neighbor in the Old Port

Resplendent inside the defunct Portland Savings Bank, Sonny’s is serving Latin and Southwestern dishes at tables and booths scattered inside a large, high-ceilinged space. Longtime Portlanders will remember the business men in good suits who smoked cigarettes as they drank scotch at the bar of F. Parker Reidy’s. In 2010 at 3-month-old Sonny’s, young folks […]
Published
April 4, 2010

Book Review: A poignant study of the wandering heart

Now and then, a book appears that is so absorbing, you portion it out to yourself chapter by chapter because you don’t want it to end. “The Secret of Joy” is that kind of book. It’s a novel with heart that explores the lives of 20- and 30-something women characters trying to straighten out their […]
Published
April 4, 2010

Arts Dispatches

PORTLAND ‘Mary’s Wedding’ opens Portland Stage’s full season With the opening of “Mary’s Wedding” this week, Portland Stage Company announced the lineup for its 2010-11 performance season. The season opens Sept. 28 with a production of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The 39 Steps,” adapted by Patrick Barlow. On Nov. 2, the theater will stage “Last Gas,” a […]
Published
April 4, 2010

Arts Planner

This week • The Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick on Thursday opens “Methods for Modernism: Form and Color in American Art, 1900-1925.” The exhibition examines American encounters with and participation within European modernism. It opens with a reception at 5:30 p.m. Thursday and will remain on view through July 3. Regular museum hours […]
Published
April 4, 2010

Keyes: Charting a course in business, life

It’s no secret that the creative economy is humming in Portland. We see evidence of it everywhere, almost literally on every block in and around the peninsula. Whether it’s the artisans at Green Design Furniture on Commercial Street, the designers at Angela Adams on Congress Street or the many printmakers toiling away behind closed doors […]

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