Two new books from Sellers Publishing in South Portland aim to help people make the most of their retirement years.

“Under the Isles of Shoals: Archaeology & Discovery On Smuttynose Island” by well-known Piscataqua region writer J. Dennis Robinson might sound lofty and site-specific to the student and casual reader. It does indeed focus on one of the earliest spots inhabited by Europeans (the Maine-New Hampshire boundary weaves between the isles), and the little outriders […]

People have been trying to film Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road,” the talismanic Beat novel, just about since the day it was published in 1957. “Heart Beat,” the 1980 semi-biopic, with John Heard as Kerouac; Nick Nolte as his madman muse, Neal Cassady; and Sissy Spacek as Cassady’s second wife, Carolyn, captured a little of […]

When it came time for the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project to pick a celebrity guest for its big fundraiser this year, the choice seemed almost too obvious: Richard Blanco. The poet from Bethel, whose career and fame has shot stratospherically since he read at President Obama’s inauguration in January, was a brilliant first choice. That […]

A new season of the runaway HBO hit ‘Game of Thrones’ has shocking revelations aplenty.

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