The heist picture gets a few Danny Boyle head-game twists with “Trance,” a movie about memory, the mind and manipulating both to find some “lost” stolen art. James McAvoy is Simon, trusted employee of a London auction house. On the day they put Goya’s “Witches in the Air” under the gavel, thieves attack. But Simon […]

AUGUSTA — The Kennebec Valley Art Association will present “The Brother and Sister Exhibition,” featuring photographs by David Hodsdon and prints by Frances Hodsdon beginning Monday at the Harlow on the Circle lobby gallery, 45 Memorial Circle. The exhibit is open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., and will be on display through June 14. […]

NEW YORK — If there’s one thing Gabriel Byrne has learned in recent years, it’s the importance of a comfortable chair. After a marathon 106 episodes as psychologist Paul Weston on the HBO drama “In Treatment,” Byrne stars in “Vikings,” History Channel’s first full-length scripted series. He plays Earl Haraldson, a Norse chieftain with a […]

In this debut novel, a young man learns to see a new side of his hometown.

People have been trying to film Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road,” the talismanic Beat novel, just about since the day it was published in 1957. “Heart Beat,” the 1980 semi-biopic, with John Heard as Kerouac; Nick Nolte as his madman muse, Neal Cassady; and Sissy Spacek as Cassady’s second wife, Carolyn, captured a little of […]

Good Shepherd Food Bank bestows its humanitarian award at a dinner for friends and supporters who help in its mission to ease hunger in Maine.

Art Lois Dodd: “Catching the Light,” career retrospective — 1955-2012 — for the Maine painter, through Sunday; “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, Portland Museum of Art. portlandmuseum.org. “Malaga Island: Fragmented Lives,” […]

“Under the Isles of Shoals: Archaeology & Discovery On Smuttynose Island” by well-known Piscataqua region writer J. Dennis Robinson might sound lofty and site-specific to the student and casual reader. It does indeed focus on one of the earliest spots inhabited by Europeans (the Maine-New Hampshire boundary weaves between the isles), and the little outriders […]

When it came time for the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project to pick a celebrity guest for its big fundraiser this year, the choice seemed almost too obvious: Richard Blanco. The poet from Bethel, whose career and fame has shot stratospherically since he read at President Obama’s inauguration in January, was a brilliant first choice. That […]