Scott Cooper, the actor-turned-filmmaker (“Crazy Heart”) from Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, isn’t known for horror movies – at least not the conventional kind – but for having an eye and an ear for an America that’s often forgotten by those in its bigger cities. In such films as “Out of the Furnace,” he displayed an […]
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Theater review: Suspicions swirl among large, talented cast of ‘Lady Susan’
Good Theater gives an entertaining world premiere of the adaptation of Jane Austen’s novella.
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In ‘Hide and Don’t Seek,’ the stories are short, but the creepiness lingers
A Deer Isle native’s new book for children could prove ‘a gateway drug to Stephen King.’
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Art review: Delve into the mysteries of the universe at Maine Jewish Museum
A painting and a sculpture exhibit seem to have little in common, but both are reminders of those things we struggle to grasp.
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Orwell was more than a social critic. Rebecca Solnit’s new book finds him in the garden
Solnit’s ‘Orwell’s Roses’ is the story of a life that doesn’t read like a typical biography.
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Portland Ballet delivers strong performance in ‘Persephone & Hades’
The company danced before a rapt audience Friday night at the Westbrook Performing Arts Center.
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Book review: In an unusually told biography, writer Rachel Field lives again
Biographer Robin Clifford Wood has an unusual advantage in telling her subject’s life story – she lives in Field’s former house on an island in Maine. That house, Wood argues, had an outsize impact on Field.
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Art review: In ‘minimalist luminist’ Jeff Kellar’s works, a few lines convey much
The paintings, on display at Chase’s Daily in Belfast, can be transporting.
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Slasher film ‘Halloween Kills’ gives audience exactly what it wants – and that’s it
Overheard from the press seats as the lights went down before a recent screening of “Halloween Kills”: “I have no idea what to expect here. It’s just some guy with a mask and a – I don’t know. I really have no idea.” The anonymous wag’s delicious sarcasm – and yes, that was sarcasm, dripping […]
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Concert review: At its first in-person concert in more than a year, a spirited program from the PSO
The one-hour performance addressed the parallel ideas of homecoming and moving on.