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  • Out and About: DaPonte String Quartet to play ‘scandalous music’

    The summer arts and entertainment season is starting to wind down, but there’s still plenty of time to catch some quality shows, and there are still plenty of quality shows on the upcoming calendar. One of the most intriguing is the “Scandalous” music festival, presented ...

    Scott Andrews • Lifestyle •
    Monday, August 13, 2012 at 12:00 pm

  • Out & About: Music from exotic to classical

    There’s an intriguing array of musical choices coming up in Portland and environs. In the city, Caravan of Thieves, a string band with an exotic look and (sometimes) an eerie sound, motors into One Longfellow Square on Friday. This Connecticut-based foursome has been touring North America f...

    Scott Andrews • Lifestyle •
    Monday, August 6, 2012 at 11:40 am

  • Arts Calendar: Aug. 8-19

    Greater Portland Auditions/Call for Art Books & Authors Wednesday 8/8 How Crimes Happen, Dawn Potter, poetry discussion, 12-1 p.m., Portland Public Library, 5 Monument Sq., Portlan...

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    Monday, August 6, 2012 at 11:30 am

  • Arts Calendar: Aug 1-12

    Greater Portland Auditions/Call for Art Books & Authors Thursday 8/2 Maine Branches: poets come home to read and reflect on Maine, 5 p.m., University of New England's Gallery of Ar...

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    Tuesday, July 31, 2012 at 10:00 am

  • Out & About: Chamber music festivals and 'Damn Yankees'

    Summer’s end may be approaching, but there’s plenty more to go before the quiet period that begins on Labor Day weekend. Most of Maine’s major summer music festivals take place outside Portland. But that changes next week when the Portland Chamber Music Festival, which de...

    Scott Andrews • Lifestyle •
    Monday, July 30, 2012 at 1:40 pm

  • Arts Calendar: July 25- Aug. 5

    Greater Portland Auditions/Call for Art Poetry contest, open to Falmouth-area poets, $1,000 grand prize, July 31 deadline, freecontest.com. Casting call for Portland area high school students...

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    Wednesday, July 25, 2012

  • Out & About: Music festivals, musical theater throughout Maine

    Maine’s unrelenting schedule of music festivals and musical theater continues as the second big month of the summer arts season approaches. Two radically different music festivals are running this weekend on the coast and inland. The Charles E. Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music h...

    Scott Andrews • Lifestyle •
    Monday, July 23, 2012 at 2:10 pm

  • Arts Calendar: July 18- 29

    Greater Portland Auditions/Call for Art Poetry contest, open to Falmouth-area poets, $1,000 grand prize, July 31 deadline, freecontest.com. Casting call for Portland area high school students...

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    Wednesday, July 18, 2012

  • Dining Dish: New Asian in Portland, and Frosty's ventures to Freeport

    There are a handful of new restaurants, bars and markets opening (or reopening) this summer, just in time to entice tourists and locals alike. At 865 Forest Ave. in Portland, Venue has reopened as

    Amy Anderson • Lifestyle •
    Monday, July 16, 2012 at 11:40 am

  • Out and About: 'Madama Butterfly' in Portland, bluegrass in Brunswick

    No fewer than four singers from New York’s famed Metropolitan Opera will be appearing next week in PORTopera’s 2012 mainstage production of “Madama Butterfly,” Giacomo Puccini’s heartbreaking tale of love and abandonment. PORTopera’s artistic director Dona D. V...

    Scott Andrews • Lifestyle •
    Monday, July 16, 2012 at 11:20 am
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