The age of radio and television is over. The effect of the first wave of electronic media was to solidify uniform ideas about news, history and culture. We hear often enough about the post-war American middle class coming together through TV over major historical events, fashion, cereal, cigarettes, Elvis and Walter Cronkite. Even Reagan watched […]

• Portland Ovations brings the Swedish folk group Vasen to Portland for a concert at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 16. The performance will be at Hannaford Hall at the University of Southern Maine. Darol Anger and Friends will open the show. Vasen is comprised of three of Sweden’s best musicians: Olov Johansson, Mikael Marin and Roger […]

With suspense, fast-paced action and sparkling dialogue, ‘Venceremos,’ a new novel by Howard Wexman, has it all.

Thirty years ago, when I was living in the little town of Harvard, Mass., a wild rumor took flight: Time magazine was coming to town to write about Harvard as THE quintessential New England village. Stockbrokers exchanged Brooks Bros. suits and Gucci loafers for plaid shirts and Bean boots, in which they lounged about our classic […]

Portland author Sarah Thomson puts her own spin on the vampire tale and, say critics and her young-adult audience, it’s a bloody good read.

A long-married couple on the verge of bankruptcy play the odds for a future.