George Smith, former executive director of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine, will talk about “A Life Lived Outdoors.”
Arts & Entertainment
Book Review: A searching woman in a multi-hued boomtown
Emma Donoghue’s ‘Frog Music’ sets a mystery amid historical drama in San Francisco in 1876.
Classical Beat: Boy sopranos lend voices to images of purity for brief time
Like Benjamin Wenzelberg, young male singers face changes in their beautiful musical instruments.
Movie Review: ‘Noah’ gives the Old Testament a state-of-the-art Hollywood treatment
21st-century effects help make Darren Aronofsky’s film an action/adventure take on The Flood.
Author Q&A: The inside scoop on raising chickens
With more people raising the birds, questions abound, and the authors of ‘My Pet Chicken Handbook’ have lots of answers.
Film Review: ‘Jon Imber’s Left Hand’ an extraordinary documentary
The film exudes the artist’s credo: To paint is to live.
Novelist Elizabeth Strout follows her way
She plucked the kernel for her latest novel from a horrific real-life act in Lewiston, turning it into a story whose complex characters are, like the author, distinctively ‘of Maine.’
Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry
Haines Tate of Waterville died of breast cancer in 2012, two years after the recurrence of her illness. In her collection “Strata” she explores, among other themes, the difficulties faced by cancer victims. This week’s brave poem is from that book.
Society Notebook: Celebrating a fresh saison
The expanding Allagash Brewing family and friends gather to welcome a new Belgian-inspired beer.
Movie Review: Anderson uses every arrow in his directorial quiver in ‘Hotel’
“The Grand Budapest Hotel” is writer-director Wes Anderson’s first full-on action picture, replete with gunfights, high-speed chases, great escapes and cliffhangers. Because it’s made by Anderson, though, the movie still pays meticulous care to stacks of bow-tied pink boxes of macaroons, the impossibly deep purple-blue of a concierge’s jacket and rat-tat-tat dialogue that flies so […]