There will be a great deal written nationally about the works in Colby’s Lunder Collection. A cynic could question the import of the news: After all, this is about a new wing on an already multi-winged museum and a collection that has already been announced and commended. But things really have changed: Maine has a […]

As season two of the HBO series “The Newsroom” gets under way on Sunday, the lawyers have arrived at the headquarters of the fictitious cable news network ACN. Lead attorney Rebecca Halliday (Marcia Gay Harden), who will represent ACN staffers in a wrongful-termination lawsuit, has nothing particularly optimistic to offer the condemned — not that […]

“Pacific Rim,” the latest jaw-dropper from director Guillermo del Toro (“Pan’s Labyrinth,” “The Devil’s Backbone,” “Hellboy”), contains some of the wildest, giddiest sights of any movie this summer — building-sized robots fighting enormous creatures from beneath the sea to the death, their brawls sometimes demolishing entire cities. This combination of Godzilla-style kaiju (giant monster movies) […]

“The Forts of Maine: Silent Sentinels of the Pine Tree State,” by Harry Gratwick, and “Wiscasset and Its Times: Stories of Maine’s Prettiest Village.” by Phil Di Vece, are two volumes that should not be overlooked in the rising tide of Maine-related material. Neither is scholarly nor particularly rigorous, though each is fun to read, […]

BRUNSWICK — The news could hardly be considered shocking. After all, Lewis Kaplan is the only artistic director the Bowdoin International Music Festival has ever had. He helped establish the festival, nursed it through infancy and raised it to become one of the most highly regarded classical musical festivals in the world. Each summer, 250 […]

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