Michael Kaiser, president of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, will bring a mixed message of hope and alarm to Maine on Thursday as he attends a mini arts summit at the Portland Museum of Art. Organized and hosted by the Maine Arts Commission, Arts in Crisis: A Kennedy Center Initiative is part of […]

PROUTS NECK – Black Point Inn sits at the throat of one of Maine’s few gated communities and at its tables the neighbors and the visitors might not be easy to tell apart. The inn is owned by people in the neighborhood and run by General Manager Jesse Henry, a manager-owner of Migis Lodge in […]

If it’s oddball or eerie, you just might read about it in Michelle Souliere’s newly published ‘Strange Maine.’

This week As part of the First Friday Art Walk, Maine Historical Society in Portland will show a series of images in its ongoing exhibition “Exposed: Rare Photographs of Life in Maine.” The exhibition weaves a visual narrative of life in Maine. Images include turn-of-the-century automobile racing on Old Orchard Beach, the 1970 student strike […]

Festival to celebrate Schumann, Chopin with 80 performances BRUNSWICK – Over the next six weeks, more than 250 musicians from 25 countries will present more than 80 concerts from Portland to Bath as part of the Bowdoin International Music Festival. Opening this week, the festival salutes the 200th anniversary of the births of Robert Schumann […]

• After several months of interior work, the Tides Institute & Museum of Art in Eastport reopens with a reception 5 to 7 p.m. Friday for “Terra Nova (Newfoundland): Contemporary Photographs by Thaddeus Holownia.” Holownia is head of the department of fine arts at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada. He will discuss […]