Today’s poem for Valentine’s week comes from “The Next Hunger,” a new poetry collection by Kimberly Green of Kittery Point.
Arts & Entertainment
Kaplan intends to go out with a 50th-year bang
The summer concert season at the Bowdoin International Music Festival remains a lot of melted snow and months away. But founding artistic director Lewis Kaplan has big plans for the 50th anniversary season, which also happens to be his last. Kaplan steps away from his duties at the conclusion of the festival, which runs June […]
Festival alumni comprise a lineup that’s world class
The Bowdoin International Music Festival has a reputation for helping to train some of the world’s most accomplished classical musicians. Here are a few: Pianist Emanuel Ax is the most famous alumnus. Fred Sherry (cello) and Paul Neubauer (viola) are both long-standing members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and have held prominent […]
Movies: Will Forte’s impressive turn to the dramatic
The ‘SNL’ alum gets serious about his acting career, critics are taking notice.
Music: Why Katy Perry’s ‘Dark Horse’ is No. 1
It’s a curiously spooky deviation from the norm on the pop star’s 2013 sparkly ‘Prism.’
USM Theatre presents ‘Doubt’ at Studio Theater
John Patrick Shanley’s drama is a serious exploration of a sensitive subject.
Movie preview: ‘Monuments Men’
Directing is Job No. 1 for George Clooney in World War II drama
Book Review: ‘Glitter and Glue’ by Kelly Corrigan
A mother and child reunion of sorts forms the story in this warm and witty book. “I know that my mother loves sauerkraut and anchovies and pearl onions,” writes Kelly Corrigan in her third memoir, “Glitter and Glue.” “I know she prefers mashed potatoes from a box, and when she wants to, she can peel […]
As in their lives and careers, brothers tackle this task together
The idea of co-directors of an arts institution associated with Bowdoin College is not unique. Last summer, the Bowdoin hired Anne Collins Goodyear and Frank H. Goodyear as co-directors of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Husband and wife, they share administrative duties, each deferring to the other’s curatorial and administrative expertise. Their offices are […]
Television: ‘Looking’ marks another milestone in the evolution of gay roles
The HBO series centers on three out-and-proud gay friends navigating adulthood in progressive San Francisco.