Maine writer Chris Holm will be at Longfellow Books this week to launch his debut novel “Dead Harvest.”
Arts & Entertainment
Oscar picks elevated to an ‘Artist’ form
Our ‘Readers Pick’ winners resisted the temptations of the usually irresistible George Clooney.
Bob Keyes: Actor returns for some home cooking at Portland Stage
The last time Sarah Lord hopped on the boards at Portland Stage, in 1998, she was a hot-shot young local amateur working with a bunch of New York professionals. By all accounts, the teenage Lord stole the show. “The Loman Family Picnic” was a huge hit, and she was singled out for her outstanding work. […]
Book review: A Jewish take on the human condition
Eight stories, all influenced by the Holocaust, deliver both comedy and tragedy in “What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank.”
Book review: ‘Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea’
“Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea” is a finely nuanced coming-of-age story. It tells of Florine Gilham’s journey through adolescence living on The Point, a close-knit collection of houses and families on a stretch of rural Maine coast. Adolescence is painful enough, but Florine’s is especially so in that she must endure the […]
Scene & Heard: Winter Bash, indeed
Thursday’s snowstorm doesn’t stop the PMA Contemporaries from having a flurry of fun at their annual black-tie party.
UNE staff show ventures outside the art department
BIDDEFORD — The University of New England presents works of art created by its staff and faculty in an exhibition called “Another Part of Me,” running through April 3 at UNE’s Biddeford Campus Center. The exhibition showcases the creative works of more than a dozen talented, non-art-affiliated faculty and staff members and includes paintings, photography, […]
Art review: Three must-sees at Freeport art gallery
Eric Hopkins is one of Maine’s best-known and most easily recognizable artists. He makes highly stylized and supremely energized Maine landscapes. Yet, for all their clarity and consistency – for a Hopkins is a Hopkins without a doubt – they are not particularly easy to explain. Along with James Mullen and Colin Page, Hopkins is […]
Audience Calendar
Art “Charles Gatewood’s Wall Street,” rare vintage and contemporary photographs, River Tree Arts, Kennebunk. 967-9120. Through March 16. “In a State of Becoming: Inuit Art from the Collection of Rabbi Harry Sky,” Bowdoin College (Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum), Brunswick. bowdoin.edu/arctic-musem. Through April 14. “Painters, Players and Poets,” “Branching Out: Water” and “Gardiner Area Artists,” Waterfall Arts, […]
Dine Out Maine: Back Bay Grill rises to top with a focus on excellence
Unlike many, I have not had a long or deep love affair with Back Bay Grill in Portland. But that’s nothing more than negligence. I’ve dined there only twice before in its nearly 25-year existence. Now, like many, I am head over heels. Feb. 11 brought out Valentine’s Day celebrants who wanted a weekend outing […]