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Gorham’s Dan Foley survives another week on ‘Survivor’

by Ray Routhier March 11, 2015March 12, 2015

After three episodes, the 48-year-old postal worker remains in the running for the show’s $1 million prize.

Arts & Entertainment

Maine College of Art offers yearly scholarships to MAMM SLAM winners

by Ray Routhier March 8, 2015

The competition of teen rock musicians, organized by the Maine Academy of Modern Music, will be held in Portland from April 11 through May 9.

Arts & Entertainment, Books

Signings, etc.: Author Alex Myer talks about his new book

March 7, 2015

The hero is a Revolutionary War soldier… who happens to be a woman.

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Lifestyle

‘Closer All the Time’ draws small-town characters in detail

by Heidi Sistare March 7, 2015

Everyday tragedies and moments of redemption carry these 13 linked stories by Jim Nichols.

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Lifestyle

In ‘City by the Sea II,’ John Moon revisits Portland with compelling photos

by William David Barry March 7, 2015

The second volume pairs historic photos with images of the modern-day city.

Arts & Entertainment

New on DVD

March 7, 2015

NEW ON THE SHELF “Foxcatcher,” Steve Carell, Channing Tatum. Comedian Carell makes an ultimately successful bid for dramatic respect in this disturbing fact-based tale, chronicling the unlikely and unfortunate union between Olympian wrestlers David (Tatum) and Mark Schultz (Mark Ruffalo) and impenetrable billionaire John E. du Pont (Carell), who takes it upon himself to help […]

Arts & Entertainment

Television: ABC’s ‘American Crime’ series pushes hot buttons of race, culture

by Greg Braxton Tribune News Service March 7, 2015

The show was created by the Oscar-winning writer of ’12 Years a Slave.’

Arts & Entertainment

Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry

March 7, 2015

Edited and introduced by Wesley McNair, Maine poet laureate. This week’s poem by the late Constance Hunting, a Maine poet and editor, describes a monkey she has trained to sit and write. What the monkey represents, she is not here to explain, of course. All we know is that she admires the “strange marks” the […]