GREG ZIELINSKI

If you like suspenseful chase stories, Maine writer Al Lamanda has 289 new and exciting pages to entertain you this summer. They add up to “Running Homeless,” a sequel to Lamanda’s fast-moving novel, “Walking Homeless,” which garnered enthusiastic readers and positive reviews last year. The platform for both books is national intrigue. John Tibbetts, the […]

SOUTH PORTLAND – In an area like Portland, where Buy Local is not a slogan but a way of life, it’s easy to ignore the mall. If not for the Apple store, there might be little reason for folks like me to go out there. Things are different this summer, thanks to a nifty new […]

• The Bates Dance Festival in Lewiston puts the wraps on its season with a series of weekend performances. The “Different Voices” concerts offer choreography by established and emerging artists from around the globe. Performances are at 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday in Bates College’s Schaeffer Theatre, 305 College St. Tickets cost $24 ($12 for […]

Once again, Michael Harvey, who titled an earlier novel “The Chicago Way,” distills the City of the Big Shoulders into a dark-hearted, intoxicating, sometimes bitter beverage, as hearty as the Guinness poured at his pub, with a touch of that nasty stuff that Mithridates used to imbibe to make himself immune to poison. Harvey starts […]

Rushworth Kidder’s new book offers insights on how we teach – and don’t teach – our children to think about ethics.