Arts & Entertainment

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March 7, 2010

scene & heard datebook

IF YOU’RE LOOKING to party and network this week, check out: MONDAY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY GALA, 5:30-9 p.m., Irish Heritage Center, Portland. Features fashion show of traditional garments from more than 25 countries. $10 at door or call 332-9750. CELEBRATING WOMEN OPENING RECEPTION, 5-7 p.m., UNE Art Gallery, Portland. Photographer Paola Gianturco shows images of […]
Published
March 7, 2010

Signings, etc.

JEANNIE BRETT
Published
March 7, 2010

‘Ice Cream Theory’ piled with scoops of personal insights

“The Ice Cream Theory” is a cozy, upbeat book that tells us a lot about people — vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, even pistachio — and how we often interact. Most of all, it offers fresh, insightful looks at ourselves. Seldom has a book with ice cream as its central metaphor been so endearingly warm. The author, […]
Published
February 28, 2010

Academy Awards presenters getting younger with each passing day

As Oscar night draws closer, the average age of the announced presenters is descending by the day. Show producers, clearly attempting to woo potential teenage watchers, recently announced Miley Cyrus, Zac Efron, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner would appear on the program (Cyrus and Efron for the second time, Stewart and Lautner for the first). […]
Published
February 28, 2010

Art teachers create instructive show of their own

When the subject in school is literature, we don’t give our kids paper and pens and tell them to write a novel. Yet in art class, we often stick brushes in their hands and tell them to paint pictures. Shouldn’t visual education be more than self-expression? An exhibition organized by the Maine Art Educators Association […]

Published
February 28, 2010

Arts Planner

This week • Beginning Friday, the Addison Woolley Gallery presents ”Ghana: An African Portrait Revisited,” an exhibition of photography from the sub-Saharan country. The show opens with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday as part of the Portland First Friday Art Walk. The exhibition will remain on view through March 26. The gallery […]
Published
February 28, 2010

scene & heard datebook

IF YOU’RE LOOKING to party and network this week, check out: WEDNESDAY LEAGUE OF YOUNG VOTERS REIGNITE, 6:30-8:30 p.m., North Star Music Cafe, Portland. The mixer will give members and interested voters a chance to hear about and shape the organizations plans for 2010. THURSDAY GLENN RENELL OPENING RECEPTION, 5-7 p.m., Greenhut Galleries, […]
Published
February 28, 2010

Fascinating, little-known tale stars star-crossed Mainers

You might imagine that a book about a battle waged on the Niagara peninsula in June 1813 would have little to do with Maine or Mainers. But then — as Canadian journalist James Elliott proves in his exciting and insightful new book, ”Strange Fatality: The Battle of Stoney Creek, 1813” — you’d be wrong. Stoney Creek […]
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February 28, 2010

Giving cancer the cold shoulder

Shaw's employees – including one very determined penguin – raise nearly $40,000 in a polar dip.
Published
February 28, 2010

Hill country

Author Joe Hill is back with a new tale that treads the happily familiar territory of black humor, horror and page-turning suspense.

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