The Bowdoin College Museum of Art and director Kevin Salatino win high praise from Portland Press Herald art critic Daniel Kany, who calls “Edward Hopper’s Maine” “the most beloved show of the year” for 2011. The exhibition also made the paper’s list of the top ten arts and entertainment events in Maine.
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Associate Professor of English Brock Clarke and Chris Bowe, owner of Longfellow Books in Portland, share their favorite books of 2011 with Maine Public Broadcasting’s Keith Shortall ’82.
 Photo courtesy of Scandinavian Wildlife Park. The Huffington Post features new pictures of the über-photogenic polar bear cub, Siku. Scandinavian Wildlife Park in Denmark is raising the month-old cub, which was removed from his mother after she failed to feed him.
Elizabeth Taylor’s legendary jewelry collection is on display and offered at auction at Christie’s in New York City. The iconic treasure trove of diamonds, pearls and gemstones tracing the movie star’s glamorous life is expected to fetch upwards of $30 million. Heather Johnson Barnhart ’88, U.S. Regional Director at Christie’s, offers background on the collection in a segment that aired on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
What Thanksgiving gathering would be complete without a friendly game of touch football? A pre-feast outing to the backyard already may be as much of the yearly tradition as that uncle with the lame jokes or those family members who always bicker. What? You know who you are. Whether you’re seeking guidance for your first family football game, or merely looking to add some structure to your standing match-up, The Wall Street Journal offers its version of the rules, including: 11. Unless you live in California, Hawaii or Florida or some fancy place like that, the ground is probably going to be squishy with cold mud, and someone in your family is going to fall down face-first and ruin his or her Thanksgiving outfit. This is not cause for alarm. This is the highlight of the game. 24. Three-minute halftime. Don’t kill the momentum. Anything longer, and aging muscles seize up. Remember: if Daddy sits, Daddy is d-o-n-e. Read the complete list.  The interrobang, a combination exclamation-question mark.
Emoticons — you know, character combinations like the colon-plus-a-closing-parenthesis to make a smiley face, or its sly, winking brother, which instead uses a semi-colon — are cute, if not the keyboarding equivalent of dotting your “i” with a circle or a heart. (Are you with me on this? Sure, you are.) Why not use one of the “14 Punctuation Marks You Never Knew Existed” to express yourself? Not that you’d find a snark or an interrobang on your keyboard.
 Christian Potholm Two gambling-related issues were defeated by Maine voters Tuesday, closing the door — at least for now — on expanding the industry here. Christian Potholm, Bowdoin’s DeAlva Stanwood Alexander Professor of Government, shares his insight in the Bangor Daily News analysis piece “Voters Cool a Casino Hot Streak,” noting what he calls “a fairly courageous stand” by the governor and forecasting Mainers haven’t seen the last of the issue. “Pro-gambling forces do not give up,” says Potholm in the article. “It’s such a lucrative proposition for the people who own the casinos, they keep trying to find a way.”
Horror After 9/11: World of Fear, Cinema of Terror (University of Texas Press, 2011), the latest book by Associate Professor English Aviva Briefel has won a spot on New York magazine’s coveted Approval Matrix, an “oversimplified guide to who falls where on our taste hierarchies.” Examining the thriving afterlife of horror films, the volume, which Briefel co-edited with writer-activist Sam J. Miller, includes 11 essays on topics ranging from political violence and psychological horror to apocalyptic terror — and lands solidly in “brilliant” territory, according to New York. View the Approval Matrix.
Produced by the playwright’s husband, former U.S. Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen (Bowdoin Class of 1962), the play opened this past weekend in Washington D.C. |  | ||
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