Art Philip Barter, new oil paintings and constructions in wood, Gleason Fine Art, Portland. gleasonfineart.com. Through June 29. “Voices of Design — 25 Years of Architalx,” interactive exhibition that showcases the power of design, through May 19; “Blueberry Rakers,” photographs by David Brooks Stess, through May 19; “A Taste of Modernism — The William S. […]

If the reader is anything like this baby boomer, he or she will find it impossible to calculate the number of hours spent watching television or movie Westerns. From playing cowboys and Indians as children in imitation of Hopalong Cassidy or Annie Oakley, to watching John Wayne or Barbara Stanwyck on the big screen (and […]

ROCKLAND – Hot Club of San Francisco presents “Cinema Vivant,” an evening of vintage silent films accompanied by live gypsy swing music beginning at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Strand Theatre in Rockland. Made up of accomplished and versatile musicians, Hot Club of San Francisco will celebrate the music of Django Reinhardt, a pioneering jazz […]

Author Judith Silva will share stories of six very different sailors, all retired, who cruised three modest sailboats on modest budgets for 3,000 miles along Canadian and U.S. waterways, as detailed in her book, “The Voyage of Yankee Lady: Circumnavigating New England on a Sailboat.” Come hear how these sailors found their way into nearly […]

Dee Dauphinee’s humor spices his tales about fly-fishing, traveling the world and life in Maine.

A specialty license plate honoring Robert Indiana makes too much sense. Indiana’s life story includes a long fascination with roads and travel. His father worked for Phillips 66, and the pop artist has been romantically drawn to the open road all his life. That draw brought him to Maine in 1969, about as far away […]

Through Sept. 8, the Portland Museum of Art will be much more than it usually is. Icons of Modernism have made their way to summer in Maine. Even if you have never actually seen any of the William S. Paley Collection’s 60 paintings, drawings and sculptures, you will recognize many of them in “A Taste […]

Sarah Thomson’s first foray into horror fiction has landed her on TV. The Portland author will be part of the premiere episode of a new spooky-themed Travel Channel show, “Monumental Mysteries,” airing at 9 p.m. Thursday. Thomson will be seen standing in a Rhode Island graveyard talking about Mercy Brown, the inspiration for her novel […]

Pick the least likely place to start life over, and that’s where a Jill McCorkle story begins. She has always had an eye for those moments when to go forward means to take a leap into the unknown, and in books like “Ferris Beach,” “Creatures of Habit” and “Carolina Moon,” she’s proved that the darker […]