They aren’t kidding. The backdrop to the Comfort Inn Ocean’s
Edge — and its outstanding restaurant — is Penobscot Bay. We’d been hearing great things about Belfast, and they are all true.
Here’s forehead-smacking news for any Los Angeles visitor (or local) who can’t get enough of Moe, Curly and Larry: “The Three Stooges Hollywood Filming Locations” (Santa Monica Press, $39.95), by Jim Pauley.
Sue Grafton’s new collection of short stories, “Kinsey and Me,” is a mixed bag of material.
What if, in trying to figure out the best way to lead our lives, we could conduct tests on the different methods?
A new Dan Brown novel is coming in May, and the subject is Dante.
We’ve been trying to get to 76 Pleasant Street since last July, when we first heard about it from our friends.
Brad Meltzer writes his first sequel, a follow-up to 2011’s “The Inner Circle,” and delivers one of his best books to date.
Bates College Museum of Art, 75 Russell St. “Robert S. Neuman’s ‘Ship to Paradise,'” consists of depictions by a Mount Desert Island artist of humankind’s vices and worldly conceits. Also, “Intermezzi Portfolio,” Opus IV, a series of prints by Max Klinger, a German artist active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. “Fransje Killaars: Color at the Center,” opening reception, 5 p.m. Friday. All exhibits run through March 22. Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Wednesdays; call 786-6158 or visit bates.edu/museum.
“Zero Dark Thirty” is, of course, military time talk for 12:30 a.m., which we all know is the darkest time zone of the human soul, when illusions deepen, fears take on discernible features.
