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Bob Keyes
Bob Keyes writes about the visual and performing arts for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. He appreciates that his job requires him to visit museums and attend plays and concerts across Maine, and most enjoys interviewing artists in their studios. He’s a New Englander by birth, and has lived in Maine off and on, most recently since 2002. He lives in Berwick with his wife, Vicki, and their son Luke.
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In Ned Steinberger’s studio, the violin gets an electric makeover
Rock stars have played his electric guitars. Now the Maine instrument maker creates electric violins, cellos and violas.
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New gallery draws competitors’ ire by charging artists for exposure
Portland Art Gallery requires artists to pay a membership fee in return for promotion and exhibit space.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Life & Culture
Brock Clarke aims for a million-dollar book
Portland writer’s latest ‘unlikely book’ earns glowing national reviews.
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Yearning for those old familiar faces
The season’s theatrical and musical lineup reflects a community’s nostalgic longing for sentimental favorite works and characters from days gone by.
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Stu Kestenbaum
The Deer Isle resident and director of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts is one of our 2014 Mainers to be thankful for.
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Postcards from the ‘Maine Frontier’
Musician and filmmaker Sumner McKane chronicles the work of early 20th-century north woods photographer Isaac Walton Simpson.
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Ten years of writing important stories at The Telling Room
The Portland writing center celebrates its first decade with a new anthology by students and professionals, ‘The Story I Want to Tell,’ and a party at Space.
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Portland Symphony Orchestra stays local for Elton John and Billy Joel
‘Piano Men’ features the symphony’s own concert manager, Joe Boucher.
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Portland Museum of Art’s European art curator taught art history to cadets
Before coming to Portland, Andrew Eschelbacher worked as educator at the Virginia Military Institute.