ROCKLAND – At 2 p.m. Monday, the Farnsworth Art Museum will present an “American Treasures” talk and tour featuring Robert Indiana’s “LOVE” sculpture. It will be led by chief curator Michael K. Komanecky, and is free with museum admission. As part of the museum’s 65th anniversary, Indiana’s iconic sculpture “LOVE” has been restored by sculpture […]
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FICTION HARDCOVER 1. “The Cuckoos Calling,” by Robert Galbraith (Mulholland) 2. “Good Night Maine,” by Adam Gamble (Our World of Books) 3. “Silver Star,” by Jeannette Walls (Scribner) 4. “The Fault in Our Stars,” by John Green (Dutton) 5. “The Light in the Ruins,” by Chris Bohjalian (Doubleday) 6. “Diary of a Wimpy Kid,” by […]
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‘Elysium’: Sci-fi ripped from the headlines
– By ROGER MOORE McClatchy Newspapers Neill Blomkamp may be well on his way to becoming the only sci-fi writer-director who matters. And if “Elysium” is more an evolutionary leap than a revolutionary one from his break-out hit “District 9,” it still shows him in great form telling a story from the future ripped from […]
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Signings, etc.: Carla Maria Sullwold
Author Carla Maria Sullwold will detail her new book, “The Whaler’s Bride.” Obsessed by a scrimshaw carving given to her by her late husband on their honeymoon, a middle-aged widow sets out to discover the origins of the piece in a journey that takes her across several lifetimes to another dimension. Books will be available […]
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Books Q&A: Tamra Wight and her scrappy campers
In Wight’s new book, outdoorsy duo Cooper and Packrat team up to solve a mystery against the backdrop of a lakeside campground.
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Stonington festival celebrates Hopper
The artist Edward Hopper is not a native son, but the town treats the great painter like family this week.
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At UNE, a mountain of a show
As far as I am concerned, Maine landscape painting was truly born when Frederic Church made his first scouting trip to Katahdin in 1852. Something clicked in Church. At Katahdin, he found the very heart of the American wilderness. Church became a superstar with his exotic and picturesque landscapes, and lived mainly at his New […]
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Dine Out Maine: Outliers a great success story in Portland’s dining handbook
Mention the Outliers Eatery location, and the follow-up is inevitable: “The place that used to have the airplane tail sticking on its roof?” Putting the politics of Portland’s gentrification aside, Outliers is a model for transformation. No longer a dingy and dubious landmark, the space now has a charming, neat gray shingled facade. Rather than […]
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Book review: Cleverness lifts crime novel out of its gore
“Sunrise,” by Portland author Al Lamanda, is a high-action crime novel that delivers the unbeatable combination of realism wrapped into a very imaginative plot. And for a thriller knee-deep in blood and gore, it’s a remarkably funny book. In one passage early in the novel, for instance, private investigator John Bekker and partner Walt meet […]
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Maine’s magnetic mountain
A new exhibition in Portland illustrates the long-standing power of Katahdin to attract diverse artists.