Fuel is hot stuff. Enter to find flickering candles set aloft in contemporary metal pieces on red brick-colored walls. Here too are black leather lounge couches, a lustrous bar, a giant painting of the Chicago skyline. Welcome to an upscale urban refuge says the decor at Fuel, from the sleek entrance to the back wall […]

Isle au Haut’s Kate Shaffer writes about her move from cook to chocolatier – recipes included – in a new book.

Through the tender conversation of today’s poem, Martin Steingesser, Portland’s first poet laureate, reveals two mothers: One from the present, the other from the past.

This week • Brigit Pegeen Kelly and Gray Jacobik will give back-to-back readings at the University of Southern Maine later this week. Both are free and open to the public. Kelly is featured in the 12th annual Katherine O’Brien Poetry reading sponsored by the USM English Department through a bequest from the O’Brien family. She […]

In these crazy times, a little unity can go a long way. Portland-based composer Hank Beebe felt a wave of inspiration wash over him this past summer when he learned of the unification of Williston-West United Church of Christ and Immanuel Baptist Church. The two churches came together to form Williston-Immanuel United Church. “These times […]

It’s Halloween 2001, just weeks after the events of 9/11. In a leafy suburb west of Boston, kids are out in costume, trick-or-treating. Among them is a pair of Middle Eastern brothers dressed in provocative garb: The older, about 16, wears a white robe and headdress, revealing only his eyes and brows. In one hand, […]

AUGUSTA — The artwork of Alexandra Tyng and James Dodds is displayed in Maine’s Capitol Complex as part of the Maine Arts Commission’s Arts in the Capitol program. The exhibition is on loan from the Dowling Walsh Gallery in Rockland, and will remain on display until February. The work is viewable from 8 a.m. to […]

Anne Enright tells a funny, dark, no-judgments tale of rapture and ambivalence.