THOMASTON — Tom Crotty keeps working his way up the coast. The long-standing painter and gallery owner spends much of his time these days on the St. George peninsula. Crotty has operated Frost Gully Gallery for 45 years. He opened his first gallery in Freeport in 1966, then spent 27 years at three locations in […]

The show features nostalgic ’50s and ’60s pop hits including “Undecided,” “Sixteen Tons,” “Chain Gang” and others.

Greater Portland Landmarks celebrates the refurbishment of a gorgeous West End home with a long pedigree that had suffered fire damage following a renovation.

Jacqueline Sheehan will be at Longfellow Books to talk about and sign her new novel, “Picture This.” The book is a sequel to her best-seller “Lost & Found” and is set on Peaks Island.  WHEN: 7 p.m. Thursday WHERE: Longfellow Books, One Monument Way, Portland HOW MUCH: Free INFO: longfellowbooks.com; 772-4045  

In 2009, Gordon Hempton published “One Square Inch of Silence,” detailing his quest for an area on Earth undisturbed by human noise . . .

A painter I know recently said that Sandra Quinn’s paintings fall flat when they aren’t about anything. It’s a strange comment, because her work is abstract. Yet I completely agree with it. If art is a regular part of your world, you take it for granted that paintings have meaning in the sense of cultural […]

From the moment young writer Martha sidles up to the celebrated Ernest at a Key West bar, we never really lose the sense that we’re in a movie.