Arts & Entertainment

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June 13, 2010

Book review: ‘Sea’ fills in a missing partof our maritime history

Portland’s Michael C. Connolly, professor of history at St. Joseph’s College, delivers again with a fact-packed but thoroughly entertaining history of the city’s Irish longshoremen with “Seated the Sea.” Not only does the book fill in a huge gap in the maritime history of Portland, the East Coast and the nation, but it deals directly […]
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June 13, 2010

Classical Beat: Thoughts on the banningof ‘idle amusement’

An item in The Portland Press Herald a week or so ago must have driven the financially beleaguered public school music teachers of Maine near to despair — or maybe it led them to think that they were not so badly off after all. The news was that the imams of Iran had decided to […]
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June 13, 2010

Art review: Space show featuresthe good, the bad and the puerile

Although I am supposed to be unbiased, I rarely give the benefit of the doubt to art marketed as “in,” “hot,” “hip” or “fashionable.” I have no problem with “hip” as a quality of fashion or music, because both are so self-consciously ephemeral. You change your clothes with every day and every shift in the […]
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June 13, 2010

Arts Planner

This week • Throughout the world, June 16 is known as Bloomsday, marking the day on which James Joyce’s epic novel “Ulysses” takes place. Portland joins in the celebration, as the Maine Irish Heritage Center and the American Irish Repertory Ensemble have planned Bloomsday Portland events for Tuesday and Wednesday. “This isn’t an esoteric gathering […]
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June 13, 2010

Keyes: CMCA back in a big way

ROCKPORT – The Center for Maine Contemporary Art is back in the headlines this month, for all the right reasons. The art center, which has championed contemporary art in Maine since 1952, recently reopened after flirting with financial doomsday. The center closed its doors last fall after its board dismissed the staff, citing a lack […]

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June 13, 2010

In the Arts: Exhibition celebratesan artist of dark imagination

The principal exhibition of work by an artist who lives in Maine — of this season and likely this year — is “Joseph Nicoletti: A Retrospective” at the Bates College Museum of Art. Nicoletti teaches at Bates, but this isn’t the obligatory one-person show accorded a senior faculty member. (Those often demonstrate why they are […]
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June 13, 2010

Maine connection links trio of Tony hopefuls

Three theater professionals with ties to Maine are in the running for Tony Awards, which will be presented tonight in New York. Christopher Fitzgerald, Donald Holder and Linda Lavin each received nominations last month. The awards celebrate the best of Broadway. Fitzgerald was nominated for best performance by a featured actor in a musical for […]
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June 13, 2010

The 2010 Tony Awards:The Great White Way’s Show of shows

A ratings hit it will not be, but for theater lovers, tonight's festivities hosted by Sean Hayes are a chance to celebrate the best of Broadway.
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June 13, 2010

Taste & Tell: The Captain’s does the comfort food style right

CAPE PORPOISE – Weekends are bustling in Cape Porpoise, with its small village of eateries and shops, and The Captain’s has stood among them for 58 years doing its share to appease summer appetites. For 30 years, the Persson family has owned and run the restaurant, opening up every spring and keeping the place clean […]
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June 13, 2010

UNE exhibits work of Diane Noble

BIDDEFORD – The University of New England is hosting an exhibition of artwork by Diane Noble, “Hills Beach Marsh & Beyond,” at the Campus Center at UNE’s Biddeford Campus. Noble is an acrylic painter, primarily of landscapes, and an art teacher in Saco. In the summer, she spends much of her time painting plein-air on […]