AMY WOOD

Like a midseason coaching hire for a losing ballclub, director Bennett Miller inherited an uphill battle when he was brought in as the director of a shaky project called “Moneyball,” but he had two key players on his side — and both of them were named Brad Pitt. With its half-dozen Golden Globe and Screen […]

Set in Maine, Morgan Callan Rogers’ debut novel is about a mother’s disappearance and the effect it has on the daughter left behind.

In my roundup of 2011, I mentioned Portland’s Flat Iron Gallery as one of my favorite new art venues in Maine. It’s a handsome and interesting space that showcases the work of some good local artists. That so many of the artists are familiar to the Portland arts community, combined with the fact that owner […]

January is typically the anemic month, when galleries go into hibernation or coast along with the remnants of December shows. But there are exceptions.

After a brief respite, the winter theater season begins in earnest in the weeks ahead. • Good Theater presents the Maine premiere of the recent Broadway success “Next Fall” beginning Jan. 25 and running through Feb. 19 at the St. Lawrence Arts Center, 76 Congress St., Portland. The story revolves around Luke, who believes in […]

Jay Davis’ offbeat poem honors potatoes and immigrants at the same time.

Mark Wahlberg doesn’t keep an office. The 40-year old actor, who is one of Hollywood’s most bankable stars and is becoming one of its most ambitious producers, prefers to hold court at the Polo Lounge in the Beverly Hills Hotel, a million miles away from his troubled beginnings in Dorchester, Mass. Whether it’s breakfast with […]