Want to fix feelings of unhappiness and enjoy life more? A new book on kindness suggests you take a page from your ever-loving pooch.

I suspect the Frog and Turtle sometimes suffers the Maine curse of long memory. “Oh, you mean the Uffa! people?” or “Where Chicky’s Fine Diner used to be?” Both are true, and stalwart (non-millennial) locals know that despite several years of operation, this gastro pub is, indeed, the brainchild of Uffa! chef James Tranchemontagne and […]

PORTLAND — Oscar Mokeme will still ask for money to help support what used to be known as the Museum of African Culture on Brown Street in Portland. And it will still be important that you give, if you are so inclined. But Mokeme may have less urgency in his plea. Earlier this month, an […]

Art “Inspirations from the Cape,” paintings, photography and ceramics by established and emerging artists, The DaVinci Experience Art Gallery, Falmouth. Sunday. “Rebirth,” art by Maine Artists Collective that is “non-religious” but “born again,” Constellation Gallery, Portland. constellationart.com. Through Tuesday. “Still Points of the Turning World,” contemporary photographers, Maine Jewish Museum, Portland. mainejewishmuseum.org. Through Thursday. “Spring […]

In Kate Atkinson’s “Life After Life,” Ursula Todd is born in the British countryside in 1910 — and dies almost immediately, umbilical cord wrapped around her neck, “a helpless little heart beating wildly. Stopped suddenly like a bird dropped from the sky.” No matter. She’s born again — and again and again and again. Each […]

‘All the President’s Men Revisited’ brings new understanding of the old scandal and its effects.

The producer will run the show in the Big Apple after host Jimmy Fallon replaces Jay Leno.

CeleSoiree honors immigrants as well as the people who help them build new lives in Maine.