Arts & Entertainment

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February 28, 2010

Writings pre-judge Coetzee’s life, work

'Summertime' looks at a five-year period when the author was in South Africa.
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February 28, 2010

‘Fighter’s Eye’ offers new round of Pittore

The Carlo Pittore Foundation for the Figurative Arts is presenting an exhibition of Pittore portraits beginning Monday through April 30 at Sonny’s, Portland’s new restaurant and lounge at 83 Exchange St. in the Old Port. ”Carlo Pittore: A Fighter’s Eye” features 18 oil paintings by the late Maine artist, including several selections from his boxer […]
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February 28, 2010

Arts Dispatches

WATERVILLE Three students to compete in Poetry Out Loud finals Three Portland-area students will compete in the state Poetry Out Loud finals on Friday in Waterville. In this contest, 11 high school students compete. The winner will represent Maine at the national finals April 26-27 in Washington, D.C. Paige Meserve of Thornton Academy in Saco; […]
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February 28, 2010

Asner, 80, bringing ‘FDR’ to Merrill

Ed Asner is singularly motivated. At 80, he doesn’t need the stress of a one-man show, let alone a one-man show that stops in a different city every night. But Asner, best known for his Emmy Award-winning role as Lou Grant on the TV comedy ”Mary Tyler Moore Show” and its follow-up, ”Lou Grant,” is […]
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February 28, 2010

‘Crazies’ remake filmed with Sadistic precision

”The Crazies” rocks. This remake of George A. Romero’s 1973 biological warfare shocker is a trim, taut, terrifying essay in homespun horror. If Pa in Grant Wood’s ”American Gothic” had impaled Ma on the end of that pitchfork, the scene would fit right in. The setting is bucolic Ogden Marsh, Iowa, the sort of upright […]

Published
February 21, 2010

Fan fare

Food, music and more are on the menu at a Portland Pirates benefit.
Published
February 21, 2010

This show’s got ‘SPUNK’

Penobscot Theatre's exploration of the African-American experience by an all-black cast – in observance of Black History Month – marks a first for the Bangor-based troupe.
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February 21, 2010

Alice shares tales from ‘Wonderland’ set

Tim Burton is back in theaters on March 5 with ”Alice in Wonderland” but, unlike the filmmaker’s ”Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” this bookshelf adaptation veers from its namesake source material in major ways. We spoke about that and other matters with 20-year-old Aussie newcomer Mia Wasikowska, who has the title role in the film, […]
Published
February 21, 2010

Arts Dispatches

PORTLAND: MECA receives three grants for Porteous Building project Maine College of Art recently received three grants to complete the restoration of the Porteous Building. The Maine Arts Commission provided $15,000 to equip Osher Hall, MECA’s 112-seat lecture hall, with Americans with Disabilities Act technology to ensure full accessibility. The Quimby Foundation supported the overall […]
Published
February 21, 2010

Arts Planner

This week • At 8 p.m. Saturday at Gorham Middle School, the Southern Maine Symphony Orchestra will perform the premiere of ”The Lost Art of Steam Heating,” a new piece by composer and teacher Travis M. Ramsey, a 2003 alumna of the University of Southern Maine — for orchestra and two cast-iron radiators. Yes, radiators. […]