If 28-year-old Samantha Fink, a writer in New York forced to move back home, weren’t in so much denial, she’d pray for the serenity to become merely a train wreck. In the first episode of the new dramedy “Single Drunk Female,” Sam (Sofia Black-D’Elia) nearly blinds her boss, destroys two cars and ends up in […]
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Art review: ‘Hopeful’ artist spreads his wings
‘Charlie Hewitt: Bush of Ghosts’ is on display at Elizabeth Moss Galleries in Portland.
Faith-based romance ‘Redeeming Love’ hammers home an unsubtle message
Based on Francine Rivers’s best-selling 1991 novel, a Christian-themed historical romance loosely inspired by a minor character mentioned in the biblical Book of Hosea, the faith-based melodrama “Redeeming Love” tells the story of Gold Rush-era prostitute Angel (Abigail Cowen) and the power of love – both a good man’s and God’s – to transform and […]
Book review: In a small town in Maine, the radio fosters deeper connection
Radio host Vivien Kindler believes the best of people in Ham Martin’s gentle ‘Talk Radio.’
How to make it rich as a bad art friend
Andrew Lipstein’s “Last Resort” captures our tenuous ownership of life experiences and the vampiric practice of fiction writing.
Book review: Mike Bowditch is really and truly in a pickle
In this 12th and most riveting book in Paul Doiron’s Bowditch mystery series, the game warden is on the knife’s edge.
Years before Watergate, a young Carl Bernstein fell in love with local journalism
The longtime journalist recounts the oddball characters and vibrant newsroom of the Washington Star.
Art review: Oliver Solmitz stimulates with sculpture show
‘Enter the Space’ is up at Maine Jewish Museum through Feb. 25.
A game of geopolitical chicken, played out in personal terms in ‘Munich: The Edge of War’
A mixture of well-researched historical fact and pure fiction, “Munich: The Edge of War” is a smart and entertaining thriller that suffers from just one thing: We all know how it ends. Set mostly in 1938, just before and during the September conference of world leaders in Munich that gave permission to Adolf Hitler to […]
Book review: The scope of ‘A Future Without Walls’ – how to fix a divided world – is huge
Perhaps too big and complicated for a single 244-page volume to carry.