The show features 350 painted scrolls, masks, ritual weapons, musical instruments and other sacred objects.

Portland Ovations brings hip radio play, sci-fi thriller to Merrill Stage

• Art Hannah Cole: “Time’s Wife,” paintings, University of Maine Museum of Art, 40 Harlow St., Bangor. www.umma.umaine.edu. “Intersections:” A Solo Exhibition of Paintings by Katharine Cartwright, through March 31. Contemporary paintings in watercolor. Richard Boyd Gallery, 15 Epps St., Peaks Island. www.richardboydpottery.com. Dorson Plourde: “Blue/Gray” and “Portrait Exhibition: Photography,” through Feb. 28. Plourde’s minimalist […]

Using as a source the first biography of Lincoln written over 100 years ago by John Hay and John Nicolay, author Joshua Zeitz brings the two young men and their heady times to life.

This week’s poem by the late Robert Siegel of South Berwick takes us to the mysterious world of the supermarket.

Friends of the Center for Grieving Children left last week’s Love Really Counts Auction and Dinner Gala knowing they had raised a record-breaking $177,000 to support programs that help local people deal with some of life’s most heartbreaking losses. “This was the most the center has ever raised at any event,” said special events manager […]

James Hurley spins a fisherman’s tale in Portland.