Margaret Cruikshank’s talk “What Does It Mean to Grow Old” is planned for Jan. 29.

Portland exhibition is a high water mark in a season of great photography.

In today’s poem, Douglas Woodsum of Smithfield offers advice to Mainers about how to split stove wood.

River Arts main gallery, located at 241 Route 1 in Damariscotta, is showing a new juried exhibition, “Black White Gray,” which runs through Feb. 20. The show includes work in a wide variety of subject matter, media and styles, including painting, encaustics, photography, sculpture, ceramics and fiber. The show represents work selected by the artists […]

After almost two centuries, the monster is still going strong in popular culture.

Five centuries on, it appears the genre may be at death’s door

A little Kevin Hart goes a long way in “Ride Along,” a dull buddy picture engineered as a vehicle for the mini-motor mouth Hart and the perma-sneering Ice Cube. It’s mismatched cops on patrol in Atlanta in this “48 Hours” / “Bad Boys” / “Showtime” / “The Hard Way” action comedy where four screenwriters tried […]

The Monmouth Community Player’s production of John Patrick Shanley’s “Doubt, a Parable,” begins Friday at the historic Cumston Hall, 759 Main St. in Monmouth. Winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best New Play, “Doubt” is a powerful drama that explores suspicion and moral uncertainty. In 1964, Sister Aloysius, a Bronx Catholic […]

The year’s features include old-Hollywood brands like ‘Godzilla,’ ‘Annie’ and ‘Madagascar’