The chef at Figa had me in the palms of her capable hands within two bites of the eggplant Napoleon ($6), one night’s appetizer special. Humble eggplant had been transformed into discs of creamy tenderness and lacy, crisp edges as slightly browned goat cheese chimed in with sour and tangy richness. Nothing slapdash came before […]

BRUNSWICK Bowdoin festival founder honored by Juilliard Bowdoin International Music Festival founder Lewis Kaplan, a member of the Juilliard School’s violin and chamber music faculties, has been named the 2011 recipient of the William Schuman Scholar’s Chair. The Schuman Chair is awarded each year by Juilliard’s Literature and Materials of Music Department to a Juilliard […]

PORTLAND – The Portland Museum of Art has long been recognized as one of the best regional museums in the country. It has a rich collection of art that tells a compelling regional story. It has a spectacular modern home with inviting exhibition spaces. It has an inventory of historically significant buildings that demonstrate the […]

• Maestro Robert Moody and members of the Portland Symphony Orchestra return to Merrill Auditorium for two late-January concerts. At 7:30 p.m. Jan. 25, the orchestra and guest pianist Andrew von Oeyen present “From Russia with Love,” featuring Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3, and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5. But the main event of […]

SACO — The Saco Museum is showing a collection of photographs by Charles E. Moody from the late 19th and early 20th century. The photographer lived in town and made images that “transcended the documentary abilities of the medium to create photographs of astonishing quality, capturing the beauty, humor and contrasts of this idiosyncratic state,” […]

Arthur Fink celebrates the readying of his exhibition of dance photos with a gala opening complete with improvisational movement pieces by Karen Montanaro.