Portland Ovations announces its new slate of shows.

For the better part of a decade, arts leaders in Maine have hammered the Maine Office of Tourism to do a better job to promote cultural tourism in the state. Lord knows, people come from all over the country and around the world to avail themselves of Maine art, of the visual variety and the […]

One of the oldest continuously operating camera clubs in America recently selected its Image of the Year.

Richard Keen’s “Nowhere from Here” at the Coleman Burke Gallery in Brunswick is an excellent installation. It’s engaging, interesting and accessible, despite Keen’s philosophical depth. Keen’s coastal tool imagery is largely divided between chains and wharfs. Chains appear as rusted residue on large paper drawings, as sculpted forms, and as images in a set of […]

• Portland-based Dramatic Repertory Company presents the play “Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde” through June 12 at the studio theater at Portland Stage Company, 25A Forest Ave. Written by Moises Kaufman, “Gross Indecency” recounts Wilde’s real-life, turn-of-the-century trial. Using court transcripts and Wilde’s own writings, Kaufman tells the story of actual events […]

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Roses have long been associated with love, but seldom so movingly as in this sonnet by Thomas Carper of Cornish.  ROSES By Thomas Carper  During the night of fever, as she lay Between an exhausted wakefulness and sleep, I sat beside her fearfully, in dismay When her slow breathing would become so deep It seemed […]