Arts & Entertainment

Published
June 27, 2010

Taste & Tell: The Chart Room’s food,view alter one’s perspective

PROUTS NECK – Black Point Inn sits at the throat of one of Maine’s few gated communities and at its tables the neighbors and the visitors might not be easy to tell apart. The inn is owned by people in the neighborhood and run by General Manager Jesse Henry, a manager-owner of Migis Lodge in […]
Published
June 27, 2010

Keyes: ‘Burt Dow’ goes to the opera

Maia Aprahamian was lunching one afternoon with the folks who run the Stonington Opera House. “Suddenly, it hit me. I said, ‘You know, ‘Burt Dow’ would make an incredible opera.’ This is my schtick, opera writing. They livened to the idea.” Five years later, Aprahamian’s idea has become reality. Opera House Arts, the programming wing […]
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June 27, 2010

Society Notebook: Wrap party

Maine’s burgeoning film scene celebrated Thursday night when the state’s first-ever awards for the 7DayPSA were handed out at a party in Portland. Begun in Rhode Island and headed for cities around the country, the 7DayPSA program pairs filmmakers with nonprofits and gives them seven days to write, cast, direct, produce and edit a public […]
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June 27, 2010

Books Q&A: In quite a state

If it's oddball or eerie, you just might read about it in Michelle Souliere's newly published 'Strange Maine.'
Published
June 27, 2010

Signings, etc.

Journalist Dyke Hendrickson will be signing his new book, “Franco-Americans of Maine” (Arcadia, $21.99). Hendrickson, who worked for Maine newspapers in the past and currently splits his time between Massachusetts and Maine, also wrote about Maine’s Franco population in his 1980 book “Quiet Presence: Stories of Franco-Americans in New England.” WHEN: 7 p.m. Wednesday […]

Published
June 27, 2010

Scene & Heard Datebook

IF YOU’RE LOOKING to party, network or support a good cause this week, check out: MONDAYEducation Foundation of the Kennebunks & Arundel Golf Tournament, noon, Webhannet Golf Club, Kennebunk Beach. Shotgun start goes off at 1 p.m. and tournament is followed by a barbecue dinner. $125 single/$500 team of four. www.educationfoundationka.org. TUESDAYBowdoin Festival Gala Benefit, […]
Published
June 20, 2010

Books: New genre for Pulitzer playwright: teen fiction

Leery of ‘corporate slowness,’ Charles Fuller self-publishes ‘Snatch’ to get the book ‘into the community.’
Published
June 20, 2010

Book Review: The ultimate islanders, craving isolation

The idea of choosing a simple, self-sufficient life, away from the din and close to nature, is hardly new. Thoreau famously lived in a cabin near Walden Pond for two years, doing just that. In the 150 years since, countless others have chosen to live off the land and off the grid. But few have […]
Published
June 20, 2010

Arts Dispatches

PORTLAND Museum of Art announces new members of the board The Portland Museum of Art recently announced new members to its board of trustees: Scott M. Black, Harry W. Konkel, Samuel A. Ladd III, Frank G. McGinty and S. Donald Sussman. In addition, the following officers were elected: president, John F. Isacke; chairman, Hans Underdahl; […]
Published
June 20, 2010

Arts Planner

• After several months of interior work, the Tides Institute & Museum of Art in Eastport reopens with a reception 5 to 7 p.m. Friday for “Terra Nova (Newfoundland): Contemporary Photographs by Thaddeus Holownia.” Holownia is head of the department of fine arts at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada. He will discuss […]