Art Seen: Photo fest at Bowdoin College and the Portland Museum of Art
A pair of large, captivating survey shows are currently giving Maine viewers an unparalleled opportunity to go sightseeing through the past 50 to 60...
Family ties and consistency make up Bruno’s recipe for success
Portland’s reputation as a top food destination is no secret. That’s become especially true in the last decade, as the growth of the Old...
Back to School: Rigometrics leave ‘No Time to Waste’ on new EP
If you’ve ever wondered what exactly it is that Rick Rubin did with Slayer’s Reign in Blood, The Cult’s Electric, or Tom Petty’s Wildflowers,...
Rose Marasco, artist of ‘the hidden lives of women’, honored in retrospective
Rose Marasco has been a positive presence on the Maine art scene for at least four decades, as a photographer, a champion of the...
On Stage: Hogfish artists remake the opera with ‘CarmXn’
The 1875 Georges Bizet opera “Carmen,” set in southern Spain, is a story of officers, smugglers, a bullfighter, and of course Carmen, a fiery,...
On Stage: Portland Theater Festival opens another realm with ‘The Thin Place’
When Hilda (Phoebe Parker) was a child, we learn early in Lucas Hnath’s drama “The Thin Place,” she played a special game with her...
Older, wiser, snottier: Borderlines carry on pop-punk tradition with ‘Keep Pretending’
In general, you might think of pop-punk as a young person’s music — fast-paced, high-energy, lots of snotty songs about high-school loves lost and...
Art Seen: Katy Kelleher on the dark side of beauty
Katy Kelleher is one of my favorite Maine art writers. Well, actually she’s not really an art writer, though she does often write about...
On Stage: From Shakespeare to jukebox musicals, here’s your summer theater preview
After a gorgeous solstice and first days of summer, we Mainers are poised for a theater line-up of seasonal archetypes and pleasures on stages...
Into the Wild: Designing a bird-safe world
The Black-and-white Warbler shown here began its northward migration sometime early this year. We don’t exactly know where it came from — this species...