It’s equal time for local guys, who hit the catwalk at Port City Music Hall for a Meredith Alex fashion show focusing on menswear.

A longtime fan of old Hollywood, Lewiston native Mark Griffin views famed director Vincente Minnelli’s story as one ripe for the telling.

PORTLAND — It’s somehow appropriate that Karmo Sanders performs Thursday at the St. Lawrence Arts and Community Center in Portland. Thursday is April Fools’ Day. Sanders is better known as the “Marden’s Lady.” You may know her from her TV commercials, but those offer only a glimpse of her zaniness. For nearly three years, Sanders […]

PORTLAND — When we hear “Buy Local,” our first thought runs toward the local merchants in the Old Port or across the harbor to Knightville in South Portland — or any other community with an active retail hub. Why can’t “Buy Local” also extend to our arts communities? In truth, anybody who buys a ticket […]

Fred Lynch’s art follows a geometric progression … in a random kind of way.

 CORRECTION: PHOTO CREDITS ON THIS STORY HAVE BEEN EDITED TO REFLECT THE PROPER PHOTOGRAPHER. There is a felicity to the Frederick Lynch exhibition at the Portland Museum of Art that I did not anticipate. That quality fosters a sense of good fortune in just being there. I attribute this heightened state to the work on view to what I know of the development of Lynch’s art to […]

SOUTH PORTLAND – JP Thornton’s Bar and Grille is named after a man who died when his daughter, the mother of one of the restaurant’s owners, was 2 months old. Tom Francis Howard wanted his maternal grandfather’s name to live on. This winter, JP Thornton’s means a place to eat – and a lot of […]

PORTLAND Photographer donates image to support cancer cure group Award-winning photographer Donald Verger has donated a pink rose image valued at $1,000 to support the Pink Tie Ball, an annual event of the Maine affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. The event was held Saturday at Holiday Inn by the Bay. Verger is […]

Maine has a special capacity – out of all proportion to its size – to lead by example. We tend to think of this dynamic in communal or civic terms, but in his latest book Neil Rolde ratchets it up to the plane of individual destiny. “Maine in the World” celebrates the deeds of a […]