Despite the academy’s attempts to add minorities and women, its ranks are still mostly white and male.

PhoPa Gallery, located at 132 Washington Ave. in Portland, will present “Black White + Blue,” an exhibition of photographs by John Goodman, which is on display from Friday through Feb. 22. The exhibition opens with a public reception from 5 to 8 p.m. on Friday – coinciding with Portland’s First Friday Art Walk. Goodman, who […]

What ho! A new novel starring the greatest comic characters of 20th-century English literature, bumbling Bertie Wooster and his unflappable, Spinoza-reading valet Jeeves? How can this be, one asks oneself, scratching the bean with Bertie-like perplexity. Didn’t P.G. Wodehouse, who brought Jeeves and Bertie to life, hand in his lunch pail on Valentine’s Day in […]

Poetic sketches evoke solitude.

The new book by cultural historian Howard Mansfield ignores sales and profit and looks at harder-to-define qualities.

Author Deborah Freedman to speak at Friday Local Author Series.

LOS ANGELES — Matt Smith has wrapped up his tenure as the star of “Doctor Who” after three years playing the time-traveling alien. His time as the ever-regenerating hero was marked by complicated puzzles of time and space, alien quirks such as a fondness for fish fingers and custard, and insisting, despite raised eyebrows from […]

Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson shine in the true story of Walt Disney trying to win over the author of ‘Mary Poppins’.