Music, movies and theater

Fall’s must-read books in fiction, nonfiction and for young readers

We asked local booksellers to tell us about three books they are most looking forward to this season.

Future Islands fans got favorite songs, intimate experience at Portland show

The band made famous by an appearance on the “Late Show with David Letterman” took the stage at Port City Music Hall.

A murder mystery is revealed, Maine is the land of museums and find your muse this fall

After the lawn’s done, these drivers mow down the competition

Gillian Graham’s writing and Gregory Rec’s photography/videography powered this slice-of-Maine-life package on the wacky world of lawnmower racing.

Tracing family history via great-great-grandmother’s skillets

Food writer Meredith Goad’s story – part reporting, part memoir – traced her cast iron skilled back to her great-great-grandmother in 1871.

About 52,000 card numbers apparently stolen from Home Depot stores in Maine

J. Craig Anderson’s exclusive reporting and analysis revealed that 52,000 Mainers’ credit cards stolen from Home Depot are for sale on a black-market website.

Schoodic sculptures rise from the dust in Down East Maine

Staff photographer Gabe Souza made stunning use of black-and-white photography at the Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium.

Elusive truth in Jonesport-Beals: Two towns, a basketball legend and 40 years of rumor

Eric Russell’s on-the-ground reporting from Jonesport and Beals helped him paint a more complete picture of a legendary basketball coach and the allegations swirling around him.

Brand building in Maine’s #blueberry barrens

A fantastic piece of reporting and writing by Mary Pols on efforts by blueberry growers to get bloggers to write about Maine’s signature crop.