Silence your cellphone. Logoff Twitter and Facebook. Summer is all about long, lazy days and getting lost in a book.

A new exhibition at the Cape Ann Museum offers insight into one of Maine’s most beloved modernist painters.

The Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockport is celebrating its 60th anniversary. It’s celebratory exhibit is both beautiful and innovative.

After a successful run last year, Portland Stage Company decided it would be smart to bring back the play “2 Pianos 4 Hands.”

One of the semi-secret art gems in Portland is the Coleman Burke Gallery window on Congress Street. While rather small and even dingy, it inevitably contains excellent art installations.

Nothing about Bresca is big or brash. But what an outsized presence it has in Portland’s food scene.

If you live in Portland, you might want to plan to stay in town the last three days of June and the first day of July.

Give credit, at least, for a clever concept: “Snow White and the Huntsman” filters a classic fairy tale through the prism of a modern, special-effects driven, action-powered blockbuster, an idea so seemingly inevitable that it’s a surprise no one has quite done it before. (Terry Gilliam’s 2005 film “The Brothers Grimm” presumably was trying for […]