Arts & Entertainment
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PublishedMarch 28, 2010
Scene & Heard Datebook
IF YOU’RE LOOKING to party, network or support a good cause this week, check out: TUESDAY DOWNEAST PRIDE ALLIANCE, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Pearl, Portland. Enjoy cocktails and network with members of the gay and gay-friendly business community. Free. www.depabusiness.com. THURSDAY VINALHAVEN PRESS OPENING, 5 to 7 p.m., June Fitzpartick Gallery at MECA, Portland. View […]
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PublishedMarch 21, 2010
Trio of Max Beckmann print exhibitions must not be missed
Art galleries often match their shows to the exhibitions at nearby museums. From the public standpoint, this can be a great thing: Galleries don’t charge admission, staff members answer questions and many people like seeing work they could actually buy. Conversely, museums and their public audiences are often the ultimate beneficiaries of the activities of […]
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PublishedMarch 21, 2010
Butler’s getting better – a little – at romantic comedy
Three films into his romantic comedy career, Gerard Butler has finally reached “watchable.” With “The Bounty Hunter,” the bemused Scots leading man comes closer to setting off sparks with his newest leading lady, Jennifer Aniston. Well, closer than he came with Hilary Swank (“P.S. I Love You”) or Katherine Heigl (“The Ugly Truth”). The comedy […]
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PublishedMarch 21, 2010
Chick-lit dream to a zombie reality
Carrie Ryan watched a George Romero film, and it changed her life.
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PublishedMarch 21, 2010
Fascinating tome of Mainers who ‘went away’
Maine has a special capacity – out of all proportion to its size – to lead by example. We tend to think of this dynamic in communal or civic terms, but in his latest book Neil Rolde ratchets it up to the plane of individual destiny. “Maine in the World” celebrates the deeds of a […]
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PublishedMarch 21, 2010
Arts Dispatches
PORTLAND Photographer donates image to support cancer cure group Award-winning photographer Donald Verger has donated a pink rose image valued at $1,000 to support the Pink Tie Ball, an annual event of the Maine affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. The event was held Saturday at Holiday Inn by the Bay. Verger is […]
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PublishedMarch 21, 2010
Classical Beat: Famed percussionist bringing different drumming to PSO
And now for something entirely different. The April 6 concert of the Portland Symphony Orchestra with guest conductor Alfred Savia, music director of the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra, promises to be a fascinating exploration of the unusual in the company of world-renowned percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie. The polyrhythmic performances on her Web site would make Gene […]
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PublishedMarch 21, 2010
Taste & Tell: JP Thornton’s makes tried-and-true – and new – tasty
SOUTH PORTLAND – JP Thornton’s Bar and Grille is named after a man who died when his daughter, the mother of one of the restaurant’s owners, was 2 months old. Tom Francis Howard wanted his maternal grandfather’s name to live on. This winter, JP Thornton’s means a place to eat – and a lot of […]
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PublishedMarch 21, 2010
Lynch show is a love triangle of art, ideas and architecture
CORRECTION: PHOTO CREDITS ON THIS STORY HAVE BEEN EDITED TO REFLECT THE PROPER PHOTOGRAPHER. There is a felicity to the Frederick Lynch exhibition at the Portland Museum of Art that I did not anticipate. That quality fosters a sense of good fortune in just being there. I attribute this heightened state to the work on view to what I know of the development of Lynch’s art to […]
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PublishedMarch 21, 2010
Niche carver
Wayne Robbins has the skills to whittle most anything, but he chooses to focus on the great whales for their ‘absolutely graceful’ mien.
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