Four concurrent shows feature artists who have worked in very different fields, from psychotherapy to coffee roasting.
Review
‘The Road to Dalton’ portrays an Aroostook town filled with secrets – and love
Shannon Bowring’s debut novel about a small fictional town has a tender heart.
Theater review: A persuasive – or manipulative? – psychic seeks answers from the dead in ‘The Thin Place’
At places, the Portland Theater Festival production drags, but mostly it ‘offers enough intrigue, comic relief and bits of spooky theatricality to engage.’
Deep Water: ‘First Loon,’ by Dennis Camire
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
Vitality Ghosted by Pain: A New Poetry Collection from Betsy Sholl
In ‘As If A Song Could Save You,’ Maine’s former poet laureate writes of grief at the loss of her husband to COVID.
Art review: Mina Loy was way ahead of her time and is finally emerging from obscurity
Bowdoin College Museum of Art displays the wide-ranging works of the radical multidisciplinarian.
Classical review: JACK Quartet nimbly takes on New York composers
The performance was part of Bowdoin International Music Festival’s Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music.
An obsessively curious child animates this comic debut novel
‘The History of a Difficult Child’ is an endearing coming-of-age story set in post-revolutionary Ethiopia.
Art review: The latest from one abstract painter and the last from another
Corey Daniels Gallery in Wells is showing ‘Deborah Zlotsky, New Works/Tom Gaines, the Last Paintings’ through July 22.
‘Uphill Both Ways’ tells of one family’s adventures, and misadventures, on the Colorado Trail
Writer Andrea Lani walked nearly 500 miles with her husband and school-age sons. She interweaves the family’s personal story with the environmental story of the landscape they hiked through.