It is too early in the process to accurately assess what’s going on behind the scenes at the Maine Arts Commission, but big changes are in the works. Donna McNeil, who has directed the state agency since 2008 and worked there since 2003, is no longer executive director. She now has the title of arts […]
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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Author Q & A: Text of kin
Waterville’s David O. Solmitz has written a new memoir that mines previously unexplored family history in the context of world calamity.
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• Portland Ovations opens its season Thursday with a concert by contemporary jazz trumpeter Chris Botti. Showtime is 7:30 p.m. at Merrill Auditorium. A Grammy Award winner, Botti fuses jazz and pop. Since the release of his 2004 album “When I Fall In Love,” Botti has become the largest-selling American jazz instrumental artist. He has […]
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Longtime leader to step into Maine Historical Society’s past
Richard D’Abate, who will retire next May, extended the society’s reach during his 16-year tenure.
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Maine Historical executive director stepping down
Richard D’Abate says he leave the post in May 2012, enabling the organization ample time to find a successor.
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Maine poet laureate to read in D.C.
Wesley McNair is one of five state poets laureate to read at the National Book Festival.
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Photographer Tanja Alexia Hollander is on a good old-fashioned portrait kick, but she’s taking her subjects from a thoroughly modern pool.
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A spur-of-the-moment act rewrites one man’s destiny
On any other day, Jim Ash would have been sitting at his desk when Flight 175 hit the south tower.
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The weekend brings opportunities galore to see Maine artists, their studios and their work.
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• The Biddeford Alumni and Italian Heritage Center bands will combine members for a pair of 9/11 tribute concerts. They will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday at First Parish Congregational Church, 12 Beech St., Saco; and at 4 p.m. Sept. 11 at the Freeport Performing Arts Center, 30 Holbrook St. The concerts will pay tribute […]