World premieres of works by two Maine composers will be featured as three of Maine’s classical music organizations wrap up their 2012-2013 seasons with concerts this weekend, while another presents a special spring event on May 23. Oratorio Chorale exits with concerts on Saturday and Sunday. The program features the world premiere of a new […]
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Arts Calendar: May 8
Greater Portland Books & Authors Friday 5/10 Barbara Damrosch: “The Four Season Farm Gardener’s Cookbook,” 12 p.m., Falmouth Memorial Library, 5 Lunt Road, Falmouth, 781-2351. Layne Witheral, “Wine Maniacs: Life in the Wine Biz,” 12 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, 871-1700 ext. 723. Literary Death Match, 7 p.m., SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress […]
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Out & About: 'The Last Romance' is outstanding dramatic-comedy
The recent wave of superb spring weather underscored the fact that Maine’s summertime is quickly approaching. The same can be said for the arts and entertainment calendar as the fall-winter-spring seasons wrap up for most producers and presenters, clearing the way for summer. It’s a week of seasonal sayonaras for several of southern Maine’s performing […]
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Arts Calendar, May 1-14
Greater Portland Books & Authors Wednesday 5/1 William Barry, author of “Maine: The Wilder Half of New England,” 12 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, 871-1700, free. Thursday 5/2 Meet the Author: George Daughan, 6:30 p.m., Prince Memorial Library, 26 Main St., Cumberland, 829-2215. Susan Dahlgren Daigneault: “In the Shadow of a Mountain: […]
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BAGHDAD Wave of car bomb blasts tears through Shiite areas A wave of car bomb blasts tore through Shiite areas south of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 36 and deepening fears that Iraq is rapidly spiraling back out of control. The attacks capped a week of turmoil that is posing the greatest test of […]
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Out & About: Maia Sharp, Big Sandy top the bill
May arrives this week with a plethora of sunshine and flowers, plus an equal bounty of arts and entertainment. A superb singer-songwriter and a leading Americana-rockabilly band are two of the top offerings at Portland’s One Longfellow Square. First up is singer-songwriter Maia Sharp. Then it’s Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys, a four-man Americana […]
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Arts Calendar, April 24-May 7
Greater Portland Books & Authors Wednesday 4/24 Meet the Author: Betty Williams, 6:30 p.m., Prince Memorial Library, 26 Main St., Cumberland, 829-2215. Thursday 4/25 Augusten Burroughs, 7 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, 871-1700 ext. 723. Friday 4/26 Poetry on Tap, 7 p.m., Rising Tide Brewery, 103 Fox St., Portland, 400-7543. Thursday 5/2 […]
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Out & About: ‘The Armed Man’ is powerful new ballet
This week’s top picks in the performing arts cover a lot of artistic territory: music, musical theater and dance. The latter is represented by Portland Ballet’s powerful new production of “The Armed Man,” a work for chorus, orchestra and dancers that will be presented at Merrill Auditorium on April 26. One Longfellow Square continues to […]
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Arts Calendar, April 17-30
Greater Portland Books & Authors Wednesday 4/17 “A Poet’s Sourcebook,” Dawn Potter, 12 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Square, Portland, 871-1700 ext. 723. Saturday 4/20 Record Store Day, book signing with John Densmore of The Doors, 2 p.m., Bull Moose, 456 Payne Road, Scarborough, 775-2126. Tuesday 4/23 Poetry & Popcorn, 1 p.m. & 6 […]
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Arts Calendar: April 10-23
Greater Portland Books & Authors Saturday 4/20 Record Store Day, book signing with John Densmore of The Doors, 2 p.m., Bull Moose, 456 Payne Road, Scarborough, 775-2126. Film Wednesday 4/10 “Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God,” part of the Maine Deaf Film Festival, 7:30 p.m., SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress St., Portland, 828-5600. […]