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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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Portland businesses and organizations offer support to protesters
Restaurants are giving out food, and others are making donations to causes that align with their message.
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These are winners of this year’s Maine Literary Awards
Distinguished Achievement Award winner poet Betsy Sholl says celebrating poetry and literature is important because they help create empathy, something that today’s world could use.
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After half a century, Portland String Quartet violist quietly takes her bow
The pandemic means the revered musician will not get the public sendoff her ensemble mates had planned.
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South Portland couple shows paintings online, at galleries and in their driveway
Painters Michael and Dawn Maron, who live in a neighborhood popular for walking, offers passers-by a glimpse of their winter work as they prepare for their gallery exhibitions.
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Maine art students mourn the loss of their senior theses
The experience of showing their art in a professional setting is more important than graduation to some.
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Founding director of instrumental Biddeford arts group is moving on
Tammy Ackerman plans to leave Engine this summer, a decade after she helped create it.
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Maine poet laureate will use $50,000 grant to develop youth program
Stuart Kestenbaum was among 23 poet laureates nationwide to receive the fellowship from the Academy of American Poets.
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While others wait and see, Footlights Theatre forges ahead with July reopening
The theater in Falmouth plans to return with a comedy, as Portland Stage announces its season but no timeframe for it.
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Behind his new ‘courtesy shield,’ Don Campbell plans return to performing
The popular singer-songwriter says he’ll use the shield when he ends a 3-month hiatus on June 13 at Jonathan’s in Ogunquit.