It’s understandable why director-writer-actor Tyler Perry has continually gone back to his female comedy persona of Madea. Put that loud and brash character in a film and it makes big money. For “The Single Moms Club,” Perry trades the over-the-top antics of Madea for a sometimes serious – and often funny – look at what […]

Hundreds of tasters dedicate themselves to it at the Maine Restaurant Week Signature Event.

“The Outgoing Tide,” presented by the Portland theater company Good Theater, explores the journey of life and death by focusing on the decline that leads from one to the other. On stage at the St. Lawrence Arts Center through March 30, the play tells one family’s near-universal story: The battle of dementia and its toll […]

The novelist, as usual, ignores reader expectations at every turn.

Its name is an homage to the original Vinlanders, Vikings from Greenland, the first Western people known to have settled in North America. But the country’s first restaurant to serve 100 percent local, organic food started on Kickstarter.com. On a snowy Sunday evening, Vinland, across the street from the Portland Museum of Art, filled to […]

A sampling of poetry planned for Sunday, March 9, in Belfast.

The Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport is sponsoring an exhibit, “Collage x 10,” this month at the Portland Public Library’s Lewis Gallery, 5 Monument Way in Portland. The exhibit features 10 Maine artists. Most of the work is abstract in nature. Each artist depends less on rendering recognizable representations of everyday objects to […]

The seven essays are more like Sunday strolls than lectures.