We lament how they alter the city’s skyline, but we could learn something from them, too.
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Residents on a tiny island in Maine struggle as climate change reshapes their lives
In alternating chapters, the many well-drawn characters in ‘Little Great Island’ each gets to tell the story from their perspective.
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Two art shows in Portland, Falmouth offer contrasts between AI and nature
A show by Brian Smith at Moss Galleries delves into ‘queer ecology,’ while Roopa Vasudevan at Space demonstrates the limits of AI.
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The fate of Banksy’s latest artwork has a lesson about public protest | Column
Public art is at its best when it penetrates the collective consciousness, embraces a moment laced with tensions, and provokes.
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A sequel to ‘The Prince and the Pauper’ that’s better suited to the grown-ups
Peaks Island writer Frederic Fahey writes a gloomier version of the Twain tale.
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‘Spinal Tap II: The End Continues’ review: Mockumentary sequel is a joy
One of England’s loudest and most punctual heavy metal bands is getting back together for one last show – because it’s contractually obligated to do so.
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11 art exhibits across Maine you shouldn’t miss this fall
Medieval art, photography, paintings or drawings: There is plenty of visual art to feed your eyes and your soul.
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Babs Dionne is both vicious crime boss and worried mother
Set in Waterville’s Franco-American community, ‘The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne’ is a tense, sweeping story that encompasses drug wars, a dying mill town and a mother’s love.
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Westbrook’s Vertical Harvest is an architectural response to food insecurity | Column
Vertical Harvest’s growing facility has an urban footprint of just one-half of an acre, but can produce a yield equivalent to 250 rural acres of the same crop.
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Three bright, complicated sisters want their mother’s attention
In his moving family saga, in ‘The Frequency of Living Things,’ Nick Fuller Googins captures the complexities of sisterhood and the human heart.