In ‘The Good Braider,’ author Terry Farish finds a metaphor for the attempt to weave a life from Sudanese and American strands in teen girls’ hair-braiding.

The sold-out lecture series has designs on a really fabulous exhibition for its silver anniversary next year.

Oak, Greece, the Portland Symphony Orchestra and Portland Ovations are all on tap in the near future.

In 1998, Ian Marshall had finished hiking, section by section, the venerable Appalachian Trail. A professor of English and environmental studies at Penn State Altoona, he also was becoming interested in haiku, those little quintessentially Japanese snippets of acute observation. Then he heard about the International Appalachian Trail, the brainchild of former Maine Audubon director […]

The University of Maine Museum of Art opens three exhibitions this week, as well as the latest rotation of the museum’s permanent collection.

Author Katherine Mayfield will talk about her new memoir “The Box of Daughter: Overcoming a Legacy of Emotional Abuse” on Friday at the Portland Public Library.

From video installations about the “CSI” TV show to basic landscape work, Bell Smith shows off a wide range of talents.