Los Angeles-based Khanlarian Entertainment has optioned Kay Stephens’ 2009 novel, The Ghost Trap, for an independent film.
Stephens’s debut novel tells the story of Jamie Eugley, a…
Culture
Pecha Kucha presenter
Behind the Slides, our ongoing feature, is where we meet with an artist who presented at a recent PechaKucha event and find out the deeper story beneath the images he or she chooses to portray.…
For the month of December, we continue our “Shop Local” series to shine the spotlight on local craftspeople who make things by hand. It’s important to shop local and to support the innovators and…
Camden Public Library/Camden Conference
The Camden Conference presents Professor Paul Holman at the Camden Public Library on Tuesday, Dec. 18 at 7 pm. He will discuss “China in Africa: A New Kind of Colonialism?” This event…
HOPE — Retired Hope welder, Wayne Twitchell is showing his unique scrap metal sculptures at the Hope Library through the end of the year.
Twitchell uses shovels, chains, nuts, bolts and…
COLUMBIA FALLS — Wreaths Across America makes history as it remembers and honors those who have given the ultimate sacrifice. On Saturday, Dec.…
Attention photographers of Maine! Acceptance of entries for the 2019 Maine Photography Show (MPS) begins Saturday, Dec. 1 through the stroke of midnight Jan. 18, 2019. MPS has been the annual…
Rockland — Art Space Gallery artists express the beauty of Maine winter in new work to be shown through the month of December during our regular winter hours from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. each Friday and…
Last year, children wanted iPhones; this year, unicorns
ROCKLAND – Rockland Main Street’s Festival of Lights culminated Sunday, November 25, at the…
North Beacon Oyster’s Maine Revolvah
ROCKLAND — North Beacon Oyster’s pine state take on the classic San Francisco cocktail is the perfect sip for when the sun disappears too early and you want a companion who’ll listen to all of…
Maine Casting for Recovery and Togus’s Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing
ROCKPORT — George's River Trout Unlimited welcomes Bonnie Holding, Casting for Recovery – Maine Program coordinator, and Mike May, program lead for Togus VA Medical Center Project Healing Waters…
Goose River Press of Waldoboro is pleased to announce the publication of the 16th annual Goose River Anthology, 2018 featuring over 75 talented writers from all parts of the…
40+ vendors packed the Rockland Elks Lodge on November 24
ROCKLAND — Shopping at the Festival of Lights Craft Show, hosted by Pope Memorial Humane Society, was a win-win on Small Business Saturday, for both the artisans and crafters and the shelter…
CAMDEN — The First Congregational Church of Camden will host several festive events during ‘Christmas by the Sea’ weekend in Camden, November 30 through December 2.
On Friday, November 30…
Plus: ‘Come Write In’ places to gather for NaNoWriMo
NaNoWriMo, what is that?
November is National Novel Writing Month. On November 1, participants all over the world begin working towards the goal of writing a 50,000-word novel by 11:59 p.m…
Center For Furniture Craftsmanship scholarship-winning student
NORTH HAVEN— The emerging talent currently on display at Center For Furniture Craftmanship’s Messler Gallery, is, as usual, exceptional. The exhibition…
BELFAST — Local Color Gallery in Belfast will be featuring a small works show November 16 through January 3.
All 15 of the Local Color artists will be represented with paintings, sculpture…
Women on Main(e) Street, a panel hosted by Midcoast Women
ROCKLAND — For anyone who has ever imagined owning a business, Midcoast Women (formerly Midcoast Women’s Collective) hosted three female entrepreneurs with small businesses on Rockland’s Main…
With help from Portland’s The Telling Room, Elizabeth Flanagan debuts historical novel
WALDOBORO— Elizabeth Flanagan, 18, a senior at Medomak Valley High School, got a crash course this past year in what it’s like to be a published author, thanks to Portland’s Telling Room, a…
BELFAST — Joseph Ascrizzi and his son, Max, will tell you that, along with Joseph’s brother, Tony, who passed away in 2014, the three family members never consciously set out to thematically echo…
Waldo Arts and Cultural Plan is spearheaded by Belfast Creative Coaltion
SEARSPORT— Apple crisp, cider and enthusiasm for the creative economy was on the docket Monday night, November 12, for the Belfast Creative Coalition, which organized a public information…
BELFAST — The Belfast Maskers nonprofit theater group has received $13,000 from the Belvedere Historic Preservation and Energy Efficiency Grant program. The funds will…
Hail to The Rad Kids
CAMDEN—The day I met 17-year-old Isabelle Olson, she was soft spoken, apologizing for her voice, because she was fighting a cold. That’s generally not a problem when you’re a senior in high school…
APPLETON — Briar Patch restaurant was a vision years in the making said owner Ben Magro, over a cup of coffee in the bright but intimate space that houses his new restaurant venture. The structure…
CAMDEN — The 32nd annual Camden Conference is titled “Is This China’s Century?”
The speaker line-up features a range of experts on and from China. Indira Lakshmanan, last year’s moderator…
Winter food truck will serve soup, grilled cheese sandwiches, specials
ROCKLAND — Rockland will soon welcome a new food truck, and bucking a seasonal trend, this food truck is designed for winter service.
Kate Grinnell Miller and Mike Miller have owned…
Memorial fundraiser benefits Carver Memorial Library
SEARSPORT — The family of a long-time patron is fundraising in her memory to benefit Carver Memorial Library in the form of a special collection of children’s Christmas books.
Kimberly…
BELFAST — The Belfast Free Library announces the winning entries in this autumn's Young Adult Photography Contest: Joseph Potter (16) and Zuber Yacoe (13).
These two photographers' works…
November has returned. The last of the leaves will drop from the trees, even the oaks, while our thoughts turn to Thanksgiving and Hanukkah, Christmas, Yule or Kwanzaa. And following those…
Multimedia artist Abigail Read collected, brought each piece from Matinicus Island
APPLETON— In most paintings of Maine islands, conspicuously absent is the debris and junk that regularly washes up onto its shorelines. A lot of it tends to be ghost gear— lobster traps that have…
Transformations
Friends in New York City (not to mention those in L.A.) look at me like I’m crazy when I say I love being in Maine at this time of year. “But it gets dark at 4 PM and it’s freezing cold.”…
CAMDEN—Skulls and skeletons still linger days after Halloween has passed. On November 1 and 2, the world celebrated Day of the Dead, Dia de los Muertos, a Mexican holiday that honors…
Women Going For It! Taking Risks After 50
ROCKLAND — They told her she needed celebrities, otherwise no one would read her book. Some naysayers said fake names for her interviewees were necessary, otherwise lawsuits would follow. The…
From biker gang hangout to a microbrewery, the building has a colorful history
ROCKLAND — In a long-awaited moment for brewer Rich Ruggerio, the doors of his WW II aviation-themed nanobrewery, Liberator Brewing Co., officially opened to the public Wednesday, Oct. 31.
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ROCKLAND — At its recent meeting, the Maine Lobster Festival Board of Directors announced that the officers for 2019 will be Celia Knight, president, Peter Beal, vice president, Barbara Toler,…
An open mic storyelling event in the style of The MOTH Radio Hour
WARREN—Ever since partners Ann Gonzalez and Fanny Faye Davis opened the St. George River Café in 2016, they’ve always wanted to add a literary component to their weekly music offerings and artist…
Prose
For Achmed Achmed
Achmed was a young man who worked in the Kitchen of the King’s palace when he was not working as a goat boy. He was bright but shy and the other workers teased him…
How to stay open year-round
Bobby Morgan, owner of El Ancla Mexican Restaurant, on the Public Landing in Camden,…
The Jack opens in Camden
CAMDEN - The Jack restaurant and bar at 43 Mechanic Street in Camden opened its doors on Friday, October 26. In addition to the usual bar and food staples, the venue offers bocce ball for…
SOUTH THOMASTON — The Kelpie Gallery owner/operator, Susan Lewis Baines, is pleased to announce the return of artist Jill Valliere to The Kelpie.
Valliere began her formal studies at the…
ROCKLAND — In marking the occasion of the 2018 Biennial at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, CRAFT Gallery is extending its last show of the season ”Erasing the Line between Fine Art and…
BELFAST — The Belfast Maskers are proud to announce the cast for their upcoming production of A Christmas Story, the holiday musical based on the 1983 film by the same name.
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Isuken is the nation’s first Somali Bantu farm-to-table cooperative food truck
BELFAST— The word “Isuken” means unity in the Somali language, and after a successful crowdsourcing campaign this summer, six Somali Bantu members of a farm-to-table cooperative in Lewiston were…
AUGUSTA — The Everyman Repertory Theatre has been touring Hold onto Your Hat!, an original one-woman show, written and performed by Andrea Itkin and directed by Scott Anthony Smith, since…
Owner Nanette Gionfriddo looks back on a career filled with love for books and food
LINCOLNVILLE— Books and cooking have been Nanette Gionfriddo’s passion for the last 12 years, but after the combination of a particularly slow summer season for her…
Transformations: Amy Carpenter
It’s Saturday in mid-October and the wind outside is reminding us that very soon, snow is coming. We just bought our cross-country ski equipment at the annual ski swap, raked up the recent drop of…
Camden Public Library
CAMDEN — There will be a wide selection of nicely-priced items at the Thanksgiving Sale of “Books Suitable for Gift Giving” in the Camden Public Library’s Rotunda from November 1 through November…
Every year we do this Halloween Rundown, it gets bigger and better. Just like last year, Halloween falls in the middle of the week, so we’ll have events before and after on both weekends to share…
No one could have been more surprised (or felt more awkward) than Mark Coates, president of the Boothbay Region Art Foundation board of directors, upon hearing his name follow the phrase “Best…
ROCKLAND — St. Peter’s has planned a series of talks, with discussion, on challenges faced by older adults.
As people age issues in life raise questions that often are not experienced in…
