In the quirky, fast-moving mystery “A Cop Story,” main character Henry Donovan is a high-ranking homicide investigator in the FBI’s Special Investigations Unit. The year is 1994, the tail end of an era before DNA breakthroughs and computer technology changed the way cops work. It was a time, author Patrick J. Ouellette explains in his […]

“The prettiest place on Earth” is how 6-year-old Hushpuppy (played by Quvenzhane Wallis) thinks of the Bathtub, a muddy, tiny island on the Mississippi Delta that’s just one levee away from being under water. In the distance, there’s some sort of industrial city, presumably New Orleans, where she sees smokestacks and electrical towers. At home, […]

Gorham author Bill Wise has turned the inspirational life story of William Hoy, a deaf ballplayer whose quiet determination made him a success, into a children’s book.

Portland artist Nicole Fazio will be at Longfellow Books to sign her book “Journey of the Sea Glass” and meet with folks. The book, with no words, explores how sea glass comes to be. The story focuses on a soda bottle dropped overboard from a ship, and how its fragments turn up on a beach […]

‘Upon Reflection,” the title of an exhibition of photographs at the University of New England and its sumptuous accompanying catalog, implies a chance to reconsider and, perhaps, offer some thoughts about the future. The photographs are the work of Judy Ellis Glickman, a highly accomplished photographer. Her work is a classic example of the 30 […]

DAMARISCOTTA — The Firehouse Center for the Falcon Foundation hosts an exhibition through Sept. 15 featuring the paintings of Lois Dodd and 40 of her students over the years. “Lois Dodd and Her Students” illustrates Dodd’s high artistic standards as well as her dedication to her students, said Firehouse curator David Dewey. While the work […]