“Sometimes the wrong train can take you to the right place.” — Ritesh Batra Deep in the vast network of ancient neighborhoods that thread through Mumbai, India’s most populous city, a lovely young woman, Ila (Nimrat Kaur) sends her ambitious and suspiciously distracted husband off to work, and gets her little daughter ready for school. […]

Mainely Brews and the Waterville Opera House provided a great St. Patrick’s celebration — even if you aren’t Irish.

‘The Engagements:’ Best-selling author Courtney Sullivan has another hit with a penetrating and sensitive exploration of marriage and relationships spanning 50 years.

“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.” — Honore de Balzac This false spring brings us two movies with similar premises: that we all, somewhere have a double. The first is “ENEMY,” starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a high school teacher whose double is a movie […]

On April 7, Slates in Hallowell hosted the debut of Run On Sentence, A Portland, Ore.-based group, that is celebrating the release of a soundtrack they created for “Beneath The Harvest Sky,” a movie that was shot in Van Buren, ME. One of the members of the band — that is fronted by Dustin Hamman […]

While the Samoset Resort’s spectacular ice bar drew us to Rockport in mid-January, our culinary tour of the area added flavor to the weekend.

“Room service? Send up a larger room.” — Groucho Marx My plans for spring break travel have changed. I was going to check in at the “Best Marigold Hotel,” but now, after I’ve seen Wes Anderson’s fresh, sparkling, dynamic, insane, comedic masterpiece, I’ve booked rooms at the “Grand Budapest Hotel.” I know I will be […]

‘The Daugher of Francis Martin’ and ‘Mi’kmaq Sun’ are new novels from Maine authors