Maine game warden Mike Bowditch is back. Introduced in Paul Doiron’s 2010 debut novel, “The Poacher’s Son,” Bowditch is only slightly more seasoned as a warden in the sequel, “Trespasser.” But he’s still impetuous, impassioned and inclined to stick his nose into murder investigations outside his jurisdiction — disregarding the damage it could heap on […]
2011
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The whimsy of Monhegan artist Charles Martin, long a go-to illustrator for The New Yorker, is on display in a new exhibition.
Choice assignment for you, dear reader
Here’s a key thing to remember about summer in Maine — we’re all in this together. Summer in Maine can be a little overwhelming, what with so little time to enjoy the nice weather and so many different ways to enjoy it. Which fried fish place should you try this week? Where’s the best lobster […]
Arts Planner
• In Waterville, the Colby College Museum of Art hosts separate but related exhibitions that bring together photography from various periods in American history. “American Modern,” opening Saturday, showcases photographs from the 1930s by American masters Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White and Walker Evans with loans from major collections including the Metropolitan Museum, the National Gallery […]
Arts Dispatches
CAPE ELIZABETH Land trust to hold auction of newly created artwork The Cape Elizabeth Land Trust will hold its Paint for Preservation 2011 on July 17. Participating artists will paint at designated public and private locations chosen to highlight Cape Elizabeth’s natural beauty. That evening, the newly created unframed artwork will be auctioned at a […]
Charles Lawton: Local property taxpayers face years of reckoning
One of the benefits of the real estate boom of the 2000s was the ability it provided for municipal governments to finance local services without raising property tax rates. From 1999 to 2008, the total value of taxable property in Maine increased from just over $78 billion to just over $170 billion. And the annual […]
‘FarmVille’ game creator Zynga is going public
LOS ANGELES – Zynga, the online game maker behind “FarmVille” and other popular Facebook pastimes, is going public, the latest in a crop of high-valued Internet IPOs expected after LinkedIn Corp. showed that the online networking craze is a hot commodity on Wall Street. Zynga Inc. hopes to raise up to $1 billion in an […]
Mobile Society
How do you feel about the Supreme Court decision to protect video games under the First Amendment? What do you think about violence in video games? Is the rating system is enough to protect children? The Supreme Court ruled last week that video games fall under free speech and will not be regulated by the […]
Video game ruling may hit parents’ buttons
Justice Antonin Scalia invokes Bugs Bunny and Dante in upholding sales of violent video games.
Tech Bytes
Twitter co-founder is moving on Isaac “Biz” Stone is moving on from Twitter, just five years after co-founding the microblogging site that has become integral to the social media scene around the globe. Stone, 37, said on his blog that he will work with the company “for many years to come,” but that the most […]