DAMARISCOTTA — The Firehouse Center for the Falcon Foundation hosts an exhibition through Sept. 15 featuring the paintings of Lois Dodd and 40 of her students over the years. “Lois Dodd and Her Students” illustrates Dodd’s high artistic standards as well as her dedication to her students, said Firehouse curator David Dewey. While the work […]

In the quirky, fast-moving mystery “A Cop Story,” main character Henry Donovan is a high-ranking homicide investigator in the FBI’s Special Investigations Unit. The year is 1994, the tail end of an era before DNA breakthroughs and computer technology changed the way cops work. It was a time, author Patrick J. Ouellette explains in his […]

“The prettiest place on Earth” is how 6-year-old Hushpuppy (played by Quvenzhane Wallis) thinks of the Bathtub, a muddy, tiny island on the Mississippi Delta that’s just one levee away from being under water. In the distance, there’s some sort of industrial city, presumably New Orleans, where she sees smokestacks and electrical towers. At home, […]

‘Upon Reflection,” the title of an exhibition of photographs at the University of New England and its sumptuous accompanying catalog, implies a chance to reconsider and, perhaps, offer some thoughts about the future. The photographs are the work of Judy Ellis Glickman, a highly accomplished photographer. Her work is a classic example of the 30 […]

• Maine photographer Peter Ralston is showing some of his favorite photographs about 20 feet from Rockport Harbor, in the harbormaster’s office. Ralston and harbormaster Abbie Leonard collaborated on the project, which covers the walls of the building on the west side of the harbor. The exhibition includes an image of this year’s Camden fireworks […]

You’ve never seen Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones quite like this. As old marrieds facing “intensive” couples counseling over their comatose sexual relationship, two of America’s finest screen actors are by turns silly, befuddled, awkward and confused. And “Hope Springs,” the new comedy from the director of “The Devil Wears Prada” and scripted by […]

Imagine that you could go back in time in the 20th century to alter events and thereby change history. This is the premise of J.M. Surra’s novel, “Angels and Their Hourglasses.” The author sends his protagonist, Ben Ryan, on a flight from Moosehead Lake in 2010 in a biplane that crashes near Springfield, Mass., in […]

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