Art “Between Past and Present: The Homer Studio Photographic Project,” contemporary photography made with historic processes, through Feb. 17; Lois Dodd: “Catching the Light,” career retrospective — 1955-2012 — for the Maine painter, through April 7; and “Voices of Design” — 25 Years of Architalx, interactive exhibition that showcases the power of design, through May […]

BILL ROORBACH

After reading the cover hype about novelist Stuart Woods’ nonfiction “Blue Water, Green Skipper: A Memoir of Sailing Alone Across the Atlantic,” I almost took a pass on reviewing it. Consider this flap boast: The author “had never owned more than a ten foot plywood dinghy, when he decided to take on one of the […]

Scores turn out when the Red Claws host Business After Hours.

Tales of misfortune and descriptive writing drive Elizabeth Black’s novel.

About a year ago, a friend pulled me aside and claimed that Montsweag Roadhouse served the best fish tacos anywhere. This kind of comment requires investigation. And so my frequent drive-bys finally became a stop-in-and-dine. From the outside, Montsweag Roadhouse looks the same as it did 30 or so years ago, when it was Montsweag […]

Eleanor Morse went to Botswana with her then-husband, a resident of the country, in the 1970s, shortly after graduating from Swarthmore. She worked there for several years. After living in Botswana, she moved to Maine – first the midcoast, then Portland, then Peaks Island, where she now lives. She worked at various jobs but she […]

TOM ALLEN

Kieran Shields of Bath finds his niche writing detective novels, weaving in his love of history through the setting.

Besides being fun, Portland’s Ice Bar event benefits nonprofit organizations that feed, clothe and in many other ways, cater to the needs of those in crisis in Maine.