Arts & Entertainment

Published
September 26, 2010

Best-Sellers

FICTION HARDCOVER 1. “Safe Haven,” by Nicholas Sparks (Grand Central Publishing) 2. “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest,” by Stieg Larsson (Knopf Doubleday) 3. “Wicked Appetite,” by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin’s Press) 4. “Freedom,” by Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) 5. “Mockingjay,” by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic) 6. “The Help,” by Kathryn Stockett (Penguin) […]
Published
September 26, 2010

Camden International Film Festival opens for sixth year

CAMDEN – The Camden International Film Festival opens Thursday, and will present 46 films that represent the best in documentary filmmaking. The festival runs through Oct. 3 throughout Camden, Rockport and Rockland. The 46 films were selected from more than 300 submissions. Many are United States and regional premieres. The festival, now in its sixth […]
Published
September 26, 2010

New on the Shelf

“The Elephant’s Journey.” Jose Saramago. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 288 pages. $24. Summer, 1551. The King of Portugal gives Maximilian, regent of Spain and archduke of Austria, an elephant as a belated wedding present. There is just one small problem: getting the elephant from Lisbon to Vienna.
Published
September 26, 2010

Ray Charles Library opens

On what would have been his 80th birthday, Ray Charles joined the likes of past presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan with his own namesake library in southern California. The Ray Charles Memorial Library officially opened its doors Thursday night. Housed in the studio and office building Charles built in South Los Angeles in the […]
Published
September 26, 2010

Book Q&A: Punk scene revisited in ‘American Hardcore’

The author of the bible of the hardcore punk movement is out with a new edition and heading to Maine to talk about the musical genre and its legacy.

Published
September 26, 2010

Signings, etc.: Lily King

Maine author Lily King will be reading from and talking about her third novel, “Father of the Rain,” which fellow Maine author Richard Russo has called “one of the most richly satisfying and haunting novels I’ve read in a long time.” King will be speaking as part of the library’s Brown Bag Lecture series, so […]
Published
September 26, 2010

Society Notebook: Going … going … GONE

The dining, the bidding, and the time fly by during a fun and fabulous auction fundraiser for Portland Ovations.
Published
September 26, 2010

Audience Calendar

ART Veronica Cross, continues through Oct. 31, Lajos Matolcsy Art Center, Norway. 739-6161. Opening Friday. “One of a Kind: An Exhibition of Unique Prints,” handmade prints by six local artists; continues through Sept. 26, Harlow Gallery, Hallowell. Noon to 4 p.m. today. “Postcards from Maine,” member show, Maine Art Gallery, Wiscasset. www.maineartgallery.org. 11 a.m. to […]
Published
September 25, 2010

Concert Review: Crow show pulls crowd to feet

Sheryl Crow's latest sound is a big, rollicking, '70s vibe dominated by horns and organ, strong guitar and plenty of funky wah-wah.
Published
September 19, 2010

Book Review: An illuminating look at the history of light

It’s late. I have to finish this review before morning. Stumbling into my office, I switch on the light (and the computer and the printer and the fax machine). They spring to life — no big deal. It wasn’t always thus. To take only the most venerable of the above devices, it is more than […]

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