And if you sign up for the Susie Konkel Pass, you’ll also get free film screenings and other benefits.
Bob Keyes
Bob Keyes writes about the visual and performing arts for the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. He appreciates that his job requires him to visit museums and attend plays and concerts across Maine, and most enjoys interviewing artists in their studios. He’s a New Englander by birth, and has lived in Maine off and on, most recently since 2002. He lives in Berwick with his wife, Vicki, and their son Luke.
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Kennebunk artist captures her peers in portraits of their shoes
Kelly Jo Shows has spent years asking artists for their shoes, and her paintings are now on display at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art.
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Even without the Duck of Justice, Bangor PD’s Tim Cotton is a hit at MaineVoices Live
The police department’s ‘Facebook guy’ entertains a sold-out audience at One Longfellow Square.
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Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout wins another honor, for ‘Anything Is Possible’
The Story Prize, awarded Wednesday in New York, includes $20,000 and an engraved bowl.
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Poet and USM grad Patricia Smith wins $100,000 prize
The graduate and former faculty member of USM’s Stonecoast MFA writing program wins the prize for her collection ‘Incendiary Art.’
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Colby museum receives gift of German Expressionist art
Norma Marin, daughter-in-law of the painter John Marin, gives the museum 28 prints by Max Beckmann, Otto Dix and others.
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Hopeful poets bringing fight against gun violence to Maine
The Telling Room will host a reading with Maine poet Richard Blanco and others on March 6 at the Portland library.
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Hannaford workers authorize strike at distribution center
A previous contract expired this past weekend, but the two sides have agreed to a mediation session next week.
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John Serrage to get national award for work with Opera Maine
A retired doctor, he will receive the award from Opera America in New York later this month.
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Rockwell Kent’s Monhegan home, studio added to national historic trust
Also receiving recognition was the childhood home of Edward Hopper in Nyack, New York.