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Arts & Entertainment

Published
September 22, 2013

Movie Review: Engrossing ‘Prisoners’ ends up holding audience hostage

“Prisoners” is a mystery told with such skill that just when you think you’ve figured it out, it finds new blind alleys for us to visit. Well-cast and wonderfully acted, it’s a child kidnapping thriller with sorrow, intrigue, psychology and just enough urgency to suck us in. Then it almost outsmarts itself with a draggy, […]
Published
September 22, 2013

Book review: Getting glimpses of Thoreau while following in his steps

Henry David Thoreau continues to be sliced and diced, every facet of his contradictory character polished to yield up its hidden wisdom. The author of “In High Places with Henry David Thoreau: The New Hiker’s Guide to Thoreau’s Mountain Travels” lists Thoreau on land, Thoreau on science, Thoreau on walking, Thoreau on the seasons among […]
Published
September 22, 2013

Author Q &A: In his blood

Andre Dubus III comes to Biddeford this week to talk about writing and his new book set in Massachusetts, the place he fled, then chose.
Published
September 22, 2013

Book Review: Nazis and the U.S. film industry

'The Collaboration' by Ben Urwand explores an interesting subject but lacks depth and insight.
Published
September 22, 2013

Signings, etc.

JULIE FISHER

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Published
September 22, 2013

Fall TV Preview: The great, the pretty good and the soon-to-be-whacked

Warning: Your television set is about to be slammed with a deluge of new shows containing everything from vampires and cyborgs to super comic-book agents and headless horsemen wielding assault rifles. Yes, it sounds absolutely terrifying, but we’re here for you. What follows are bite-sized takes on the fall fare. Just proceed with caution and […]
Published
September 22, 2013

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

Sometimes what saves a child from life’s hardships is her imagination, as Mekeel McBride explains in today’s poem.
Published
September 22, 2013

Art Review: MECA’s ‘Ardor’ a passionate prelude

The Portland Museum of Art Biennial, which opens on Oct. 3, is the art event that gets the most internal ink in Maine. One reason why there is so much Sturm und Drang surrounding the highest profile juried shows in any region is that such shows reach out to — and thereby implicate, for better […]
Published
September 15, 2013

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

Through the haunting voice of this week’s poem, Tom Sexton of Eastport remembers the vanished world of sardine packers in the canneries of Lubec, Maine.
Published
September 15, 2013

5 views: Fine-arts picks for the fall

There is art beyond Labor Day, and quite often it's the best of the year. Check out these venues easily reached from Portland.