Indie Film: ‘The Hunting Trail’ captures how wrong things can go in the woods

The short film has been accepted into five festivals and has its sights set on more.

Tap Lines: Local bocks will ease transition to warm-weather beers

These German-style offerings make for smooth sipping from spring into summer.

What to look for this summer at Maine museums and galleries

A rundown of the season’s art exhibits from southern Maine up through the coast.

Best-Sellers: ‘Big Truck Little Island,’ ‘Downeast’

The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.

Quiz: Which Maine beach read is for you?

Theater review: In new musical, a middle-aged Dorothy returns to Oz

Footlights premieres ‘Surrender Dorothy,’ running through May 21.

Theater review: ‘Sabina’ tells cerebral but entertaining story of psychoanalysts

The musical is in its premiere run at Portland Stage.

Indie Film: Filmmaker’s struggle with depression informs his latest short

Robbie Moore hopes again to reach audiences on a personal level with ‘3:46 a.m.’

In ‘Petite Maman,’ two girls meet and form an enchanted bond

“Petite Maman” opens in the wake of a death: that of 8-year-old Nelly’s grandmother, at whose house in the country this French film is set. In an early scene, Nelly (a marvelously confident and prepossessing Joséphine Sanz) tells her mother, Marion (Nina Meurisse), that she’s sad; the girl feels like she didn’t get a chance […]

Art review: Pixilated paintings and figure drawings represent the range of artistic interpretation

See ‘Leslie Parke: Beyond the Senses’ at Moss Galleries in Falmouth and ‘Back to the Figure’ at Alice Gauvin Gallery in Portland.