PORTLAND — Mark Bessire didn’t have to look far when searching for a new manager of the store at the Portland Museum of Art. The museum director found a perfect candidate right here in Portland, reaching out to retail entrepreneur and local arts advocate Sally Struever to take over the operation. Struever and her husband, […]
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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An exciting photo finish
A great juror, lots of competitors and Maine’s strong tradition of photography make this show something to see.
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This week • Maine writer Sarah Braunstein reads from and discusses her book, “The Sweet Relief of Missing Children,” at noon Wednesday at the Portland Public Library. Her book is based in New York City, where a girl named Leonora vanishes without a trace. Years earlier and miles upstate, Goldie searches for a man to […]
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Behold the little press that could
Moon Pie’s success speaks volumes of the vision of poet’s best friend Alice Persons.
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Bob Keyes: Paul Brahms and his nifty fifty
PEAKS ISLAND – Paul Brahms faced a dilemma. Work that he thought he had lined up through the winter fell through, and he found himself with time on his hands that he didn’t want. He needed a painting project to take him through the cold season out on Peaks Island and to replace the income […]
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Festival gets it right for playwrights
The Maine Playwrights Festival runs through the end of April at the St. Lawrence Arts Center.
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Pipe Dreams
Youthful virtuoso Cameron Carpenter has some ideas about Portland’s Kotzschmar, and the future of organ music itself.
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This week • He has been called the most famous organist in the world today, and such hyperbole is probably not too far off the mark. Cameron Carpenter returns to Portland to work his magic on the Kotzschmar Organ at Merrill Auditorium. Cameron performs at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in a concert presented by the Friends […]
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Author Q & A: Off the beat
Steve Webster puts out a book about the cases that have stuck with him through years of police work in Maine.
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Broadway Bound Again
You know the face (and the hair) from her high-profile TV commercials. The local-girl-makes-good story continues with hard-working actress Alison Cimmet gearing up for a yearlong stay on the Great White Way.