They call that ‘ART’

Freeport Factory Stage opens the witty production about three friends and one very debatable painting.

Darrell celebrates new CD release

Yarmouth’s Laura Darrell returns to Maine for a show celebrating the release of her new CD, ‘Mad Mad Me.’

Reporter gets a handleon preparing graves

Maine at Work: Bad weather doesn’t halt cemetery maintenance, Ray Routhier learns. And keeping things tidy counts for a lot.

Genuinely noteworthy

Local designers decorate an unusual – for Portland – Tudor-style gem in the West End for the symphony’s 2011 Show House fundraiser.

Author Q &A: Swine flew

The nostalgic, county-fair event known as the pig scramble provides fodder for Topsham writer Jessica Kinney’s new children’s book.

New fall TV shows

It’s going to be ladies night almost every night this fall.

A Maine family reaches for ‘something positive’

Loved ones make certain that Stephen Ward, who died in the Sept. 11 attacks, has an enduring legacy.

Plays well with others

Nigel Hall, veteran of Gov’t Mule and The Allman Brothers Band, cut his musical teeth in Portland and is back in town to play old-school soul with the Warren Haynes Band.

Maine unions rallyto preserve workers’ rights

PORTLAND — About 200 union members and supporters gathered Monday morning for the annual Labor’s Day Breakfast, with many stressing that such shows of unity by organized labor are more important now than ever.

“I know that some people will tell you that business and labor can work together, in both their interests,” Chris Teret, president of the Southern Maine Labor Council, told the gathering. “But the interests of business are about profits, and they are clearly in opposition to the interests of working people.”

Westbrook man arrested in theft of pills

Zachery Wildman, 36, is charged with robbing a Hannaford pharmacy.