The University of New England’s Art Gallery is one of Portland’s best architectural nuggets in no small part because of the way it opens up from the main floor into the surprisingly spacious upper level. Rarely has anyone used the relationship between the two levels as well as Alison Hildreth for her current installation of […]

Sculptors are the heroes of the arts. They are the least appreciated, the greatest riskers of time, the most restricted in expression and the most poorly rewarded of artists. Their perseverance is an act of defiance, whether or not they see it as such. To produce an object that manipulates space, dances with the light, […]

• Lucid Stage on Baxter Boulevard in Portland marks Black History Month on Friday with “Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist and Other Conversations of Color: A Celebration of African American History.” The evening includes music, a play and a visual arts exhibition. It begins, as good things often do, with music. Mehuman Jonson will perform […]

The noise of heavy bowling balls smashing into pins is of course a constant at Bayside Bowl, but like the ticking of a clock, it begins to recede from consciousness after a while. In fact, you can completely stop hearing it if your mouth is dealing with some of the specials on the big board […]

HARRISON THORP Former Maine journalist Harrison Thorp will be speaking and signing copies of his new novel “Freak the News: Journalistic High Jinks in a Small Maine Town.” The book is a fictionalized account of a small southern Maine newspaper where the forces of greed and power slant executive decision-making.  WHEN: 11 a.m. Saturday WHERE: […]

PORTLAND Portland Stage names new managing director Portland Stage Company has announced the hiring of Jon J. Wojciechowski Jr. as managing director. He begins on Monday. Wojciechowski brings considerable professional experience in marketing and development with nonprofit organizations and with hospital and health care systems in Maine and New York. His most recent positions were […]

BIDDEFORD – Maine Women in the Arts hosts “Think Spring!” opening Friday and continuing through April 10 at the North Dam Mill in Biddeford. The show opening coincides with Biddeford downtown’s Fourth Friday Art Walk. The art of MWA members will be on exhibit in the Hallway Gallery for two months. A reception will be […]

Round Pond’s Douglas Preston and writing partner Lincoln Child introduce a new protagonist in their latest cliffhanger, ‘Gideon’s Sword.’