The time has come, as the Walrus said, to reflect back on the most memorable musical events of 2011. I hadn’t realized there were so many. To begin with, all of the Christmas concerts (at least the ones I was able to attend) were outstanding. The Portland Symphony Orchestra’s “Magic of Christmas” shone brightly by returning […]

Father Tom is a delightful Maine coon, the parish cat of Temptation of Christ Church in a new book by Cape Elizabeth’s J.R. Mackenzie.

Will Farrell gets serious, Martin Scorsese does a kids’ movie, and Woody Allen? Still funny.

SACO – The Saco Museum celebrates hooked rug innovator and entrepreneur Edward S. Frost with the show “Rugs All Marked Out,” opening Jan. 14. Frost launched a rug-pattern business in Biddeford in the mid-19th century. Originally presented at the Maine State Museum in 2006, “Rugs All Marked Out” features rugs, burlap patterns and metal stencils […]

Christmas is when many of us spend more time standing in lines at the post office than any other time of the year. Have you ever wondered about those postal clerks and the passions of their private lives? One of the most famous postal clerks in America right now (though retired) is a guy named […]

Coming and going … going and coming: Our own lives can change dramatically, but why are we surprised when the lives of the rich and famous do? Maybe because those lives can suddenly turn into volcanic eruptions of booze and drugs, those verbal emissions best described as insane or, more charitably, unbalanced. We watch in […]

Author Paula Benoit and illustrator Thomas Block will launch their new children’s book, “Baxter in the Blaine House,” with a signing on Sunday at L.L. Bean. In “Baxter in the Blaine House,” Baxter the dog serves as tour guide of the mansion that’s been home to Maine governors and their families since 1920. Gov. Paul […]

Friends of Freeport Factory Stage hope to raise money and a corps of volunteers to keep the theater running.