‘Kick-Ass” takes crime-fighting teens and adds generous dollops of gore, violence and weaponry.

I wonder if percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie, who appeared recently with the Portland Symphony Orchestra, ever plays the cajon? Judging from her fantastic work on the snare drum, it might have been more interesting than the neo-Romantic concerto for marimba that followed her 12-tone snare-drum concert-piece. The marimba, sniffs musicologist Percy Scholes, is an instrument […]

AUGUSTA Maine authors earn awards for children’s literature Five Maine authors and illustrators were honored Thursday at a children’s literature conference in Augusta. The Lupine Awards for outstanding contributions to Maine literature for young people and the Katahdin Lifetime Achievement Award were presented at the Reading Round Up Conference at the Augusta Civic Center. Since […]

“Shark Girls” is an intriguing novel about two Hawaii-born women, their lives bound together by a shark attack that amputates a child’s leg. Inspired by an actual shark attack resulting in a boy’s death 52 years ago, author Jaimee Wriston Colbert uses the incident as a jumping-off point in a tale that weaves Hawaiian shark […]

IF YOU’RE LOOKING to party, network or support a good cause this week, check out:   TUESDAY • TASTES OF THE SEASON, 6 p.m., Oak Street Bistro, Alfred. Taste wines and bid on auction items in a benefit for the Sanford-Springvale Rotary Charitable Fund. $39 advance/$49 at door. 651-2142.     WEDNESDAY • MAINE TWEETUP, […]