RICK RIORDAN

FREEPORT — A special exhibition featuring Tremont artist and muralist Judy Taylor will be on view at the Thos. Moser Showroom, 149 Main St., through May 31. The show includes new oil and gouache paintings, graphite drawings and studies for the murals Taylor was commissioned to create for the Maine Department of Labor. Gov. Paul […]

• In June 2010, Saco artist Diane Bowie Zaitlin attended a residency at Great Spruce Head Island in Penobscot Bay. In “Point of Departure” at the Saco Museum, she provides a view of her creative process and the power of influence. The exhibition will be on view beginning Saturday through Sept. 4. A public reception […]

Janet Polk, principal bassoonist for the PSO, surely does — for its distinctive sound and shapely profile — and she’s on a mission to get the rest of us to love it too.

Toby Lester was an editor at The Atlantic when a news release crossed his desk announcing the Library of Congress’s purchase of a map. It had been created by one Martin Waldseemuller in 1507. The land mass across the Atlantic was being defined with every new voyage of discovery, and Waldseemuller gave it a name: […]

The seventh mystery novel by Buxton writer Julia Spencer-Fleming cracks the prestigious New York Times best-seller list.