Arts & Entertainment

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    June 6, 2010

    Book review: Get away from it all with trip to ‘Sumner Island’

    Reviewers inclined to pigeonhole novels with words like “mystery” or “romance” will have a tough time pegging “Sumner Island.” Michael Cormier’s first novel is a murder mystery, to be sure. It’s also a romance and a fantasy in which modern-day characters mingle and fall in love with spirits of the dead. Whatever you choose to […]

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    June 6, 2010

    2010 Audience Readers’ Poll

    Roll with the Poll for best places to go

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    June 6, 2010

    A look back at a painterly career

    The Bates College Museum of Art examines the body of work of Joseph Nicoletti, old-school artist.

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    June 6, 2010

    Arts Dispatches

    PORTLAND Portland painter chosen Monhegan resident artist Christopher Keister, a painter from Portland, has been named the 2010 Monhegan Island artist-in-residence by the Monhegan Artists’ Residency Corporation. Keister is a formalist painter with abstract tendencies. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2007. His work has been featured in the Center for […]

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    June 6, 2010

    Arts Planner

    Maine’s summer theater season begins anew this week, as both Ogunquit Playhouse and Maine State Music Theatre in Brunswick draw the curtain beginning Wednesday night. • Ogunquit opens with star power. Emmy Award-winning TV star, celebrity stylist, author and fashion designer Carson Kressley makes his theater debut in the musical “The Drowsy Chaperone.” Kressley, who has […]

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    June 6, 2010

    Scene & Heard: Helping handbags

    Funds raised at Purses with Purpose go to the Ronald McDonald House.

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    June 6, 2010

    Katherine Heigl on ‘Grey’s,’ movies, motherhood

    BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Katherine Heigl looked like she was about to cry. Her eyes were watering, and her beautiful face contorted as if in pain. For a moment, one might have thought that she was re-living that mea culpa cover story in a national magazine in April, in which she apologized to the public […]

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    June 6, 2010

    Keyes: Old Port Festival is, at the end of the day, about the music

    It might seem that after 30-plus years, the Old Port Festival would run itself. If only that were true. In fact, the annual festival — set for a week from today — continues to be a lot of work for the organization that presents it year after year, Portland’s Downtown District. There are ever-evolving details […]

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    June 6, 2010

    Theater review: Playhouse’s tributeto Garland poignant, moving

    PORTLAND – The Old Port Playhouse opened its summer season Friday with an intimate glimpse into the life and times of legendary performer Judy Garland. “The Property Known as Garland,” written by Billy Van Zandt, stars Laura Hurd Whited as the dashing diva and Justin D. Stebbins as her stagehand, Ed. It’s primarily a one-woman […]

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    June 6, 2010

    Signings, etc.

    – Massachusetts author Dennis Lehane has turned out a string of gritty novels that have been turned into gritty films, including “Mystic River,” “Gone, Baby, Gone,” and “Shutter Island.” He’ll be giving a free talk Friday night at the Rines Auditorium, in the recently renovated Portland Public Library. WHEN: 7 p.m. Friday WHERE: Portland Public […]