But back in the ’60s, cycling advocate David Kinsman was the percussionist for an almost-famous band.

You might imagine that a book about a battle waged on the Niagara peninsula in June 1813 would have little to do with Maine or Mainers. But then — as Canadian journalist James Elliott proves in his exciting and insightful new book, ”Strange Fatality: The Battle of Stoney Creek, 1813” — you’d be wrong. Stoney Creek […]

This week • Beginning Friday, the Addison Woolley Gallery presents ”Ghana: An African Portrait Revisited,” an exhibition of photography from the sub-Saharan country. The show opens with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday as part of the Portland First Friday Art Walk. The exhibition will remain on view through March 26. The gallery […]

‘Summertime’ looks at a five-year period when the author was in South Africa.

Author Joe Hill is back with a new tale that treads the happily familiar territory of black humor, horror and page-turning suspense.

When the subject in school is literature, we don’t give our kids paper and pens and tell them to write a novel. Yet in art class, we often stick brushes in their hands and tell them to paint pictures. Shouldn’t visual education be more than self-expression? An exhibition organized by the Maine Art Educators Association […]