Author Katherine Mayfield will talk about her new memoir “The Box of Daughter: Overcoming a Legacy of Emotional Abuse” on Friday at the Portland Public Library.

The sold-out lecture series has designs on a really fabulous exhibition for its silver anniversary next year.

Art “A Thickening Rhythm,” five artists, various media, installation and performance, Coleman Burke Gallery (Fort Andross), Brunswick. colemanburke.com. Through May 19. “Are You Really My Friend?”, Tanja Alexia Hollander’s photographs of her Facebook friends, Portland Museum of Art. 775-6148; portlandmuseum.org. Through June 17. Edgar Degas: “The Private Impressionist,” drawings, prints, pastels, photographs and sculptures, Portland […]

Oak, Greece, the Portland Symphony Orchestra and Portland Ovations are all on tap in the near future.

There’s something about the frozen Northern Plains, filled with folksy, trusting and righteous Midwesterners, that screams “Insurance fraud!” to screenwriters.

Written when he was 21, the “The Sea is My Brother” is the work of a talented beginner still developing.

From video installations about the “CSI” TV show to basic landscape work, Bell Smith shows off a wide range of talents.