“Howeffer did zey vin!” mutters a German guest at Faulty Towers, staring down upon the hapless and prostrate Basil Faulty at the end of that British series’ classic, “The Germans.” I found myself repeating it like a mantra as I plowed through Diane Monroe Smith’s “Command Conflicts in Grant’s Overland Campaign: Ambition and Animosity in […]

MARTHA WHITE

The sixth, and possibly next-to-last, season, of “Mad Men” ends with an episode titled “In Care Of,” for which the AMC site offers this description, reproduced here in full: “Don (Jon Hamm) has a problem.” Speculation has seeped into the information void — doubtless all of it wrong — ranging from the death of Don’s […]

The director and his team steeped themselves in campus culture to prepare for ‘Monsters University.’

Studios add Chinese elements to American movies because it offers a growing market.

Don’t look now, but the summer music festival season is already upon us. The DaPonte String Quartet’s summer schedule began Saturday at the Denmark Arts Center. The program will be repeated at Centennial Hall in Harpswell on July 9 and St. Columba’s Church in Boothbay on July 11. The first series is devoted to trios […]

His latest novel employs a stream-of-consciousness approach to span 150 years

In his new book, Hallowell’s John Gibson revisits some Henry David Thoreau hikes – and tells readers how they can experience the same peaks today.

Art Philip Barter, new oil paintings and constructions in wood, Gleason Fine Art, Portland. gleasonfineart.com. Through Saturday. “Monhegan Island” by Kevin Beers, and “Drawing on Porcelain” by Tim Christensen Gleason Fine Art, Boothbay Harbor. gleasonfineart.com. Through July 27. “A Taste of Modernism — The William S. Paley Collection,” 62 works from the Paley Collection at […]