NEW YORK — Grammy Award-nominated producer Manfred Eicher has enjoyed some of his biggest successes at the helm of the independent ECM label by going with his instincts as a musician to make recordings other producers would have rejected as commercially unviable. Eicher, a classically trained bassist who recently garnered his ninth Grammy nomination for […]

El Sistema offers a simple idea to use classical music to promote positive social change for youth.

McArthur Public Library will host an after-hours “Meet, Greet & Signing” event with children’s authors Ed Briant, Kate Egan, Cynthia Lord, Lynn Plourde, Megan Frazer Blakemore, Cathryn Falwell, Lynda Mullaly Hunt, J.E. Thompson, Gail Donovan, Kevin Hawkes, Sashi Kaufman and Lisa Jahn-Clough. Copies of their books will be available for purchase.  WHEN: 6 to 7:30 […]

The film’s energy comes from the spirited language and blinkered point-of-view of Jordan Belfort’s book.

Anyone curious about the writing life and the confused state of American publishing at the confluence of the 20th and 21st centuries really ought to savor “The Horror…The Horror: An Autobiography” by the late Maine author Rick Hautala (1949-2013). This is a terse, witty, honest, dead-on self-assessment by a particularly hard-working genre novelist, who made […]

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The exhibit features 10 portraits of Maine organic farmers created by 200 students.

It’s a murder mystery that embraces some of the genre’s conventions but it jumps among three time frames to follow the case over the course of 17 years.

The movie does manage a few decent jolts.