Arts & Entertainment

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April 25, 2010

Society Notebook: Walking the ‘walk

Local designers, couture and models own the catwalk at WMPG's Fashion Show.
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April 25, 2010

Arts Dispatches

PORTLAND Artists invited to submit work for museum Biennial The Portland Museum of Art is accepting entries from artists for its 2011 Biennial exhibition. The online submission form is available at www.portlandmuseum.org/biennial. Submissions must be made online, and the deadline is June 14. The Biennial will showcase new work by living artists connected to the […]
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April 25, 2010

Arts Planner

This week Jim Daniels, a Portland-based photographer, is showing images he has taken in his travels around the world at Northeast Hearing and Speech, a nonprofit audiology center at 75 W. Commercial St., Suite 205, Portland. There will be a public showing from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday. Daniels, 59, a client at the center, […]
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April 25, 2010

Finding Moore in Maine

After living in art capitals and gaining international renown by age 30, designer and painter Matt Moore decides Portland is the place for him to work.
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April 25, 2010

Taste & Tell: Fresh seafood, fried nicely, makes Ken’s a favorite

SCARBOROUGH – You are in luck — the first Tuesday of the month is right around the corner, the day when fried oysters, the queen of fried seafood, is on the menu at Ken’s Place. Of course, any day of the week fried clams coated in crumbs or batter, baked or fried haddock, fried Maine […]

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April 25, 2010

Keyes: Photographer’s work wins exposure

PORTLAND – Abigail Wellman may well be too young to lay claim to having a rags-to-riches story. But at 31, the Portland photographer still has quite a tale to tell, and her story serves as a shining example to any artist living and working in Maine that hard work has its rewards. Wellman has the […]
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April 25, 2010

Playwright and actress to be honored

NEW YORK – Alan Ayckbourn and Marian Seldes will receive 2010 Lifetime Achievement Awards during the Tony ceremony June 13 at Radio City Music Hall. Ayckbourn is the author of more than 70 plays, including “The Norman Conquests,” a trilogy that was revived on Broadway last season, winning a 2009 Tony for best revival. Seldes, […]
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April 25, 2010

Book Q&A: Angelou in Augusta

'I'd really like to see Maine,' the writer-activist-auteur says she thought when she was invited to speak here.
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April 25, 2010

By choosing diverse film personas, Pierce Brosnan moves beyond Bond

The leading man who wanted to be a character actor has appeared in five films this year.
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April 25, 2010

Art Review: Identity-oriented art asserts itself well at galleries

When we talk about our own culture, we talk about how we are distinct from anyone else. What we cringe at, however, is culture that goes beyond the simple pride of identity to make insidiously greater claims. Nazi and Soviet art, for example, pushed past indigenous culture to enlist themselves in propaganda wars. Yet certainly, […]