You’ll be five-tenths of the way to the end of the road after reading this month’s installment of “The Green Mile,” Stephen King’s serial thriller which has been making best-seller lists around the country. For those who have been wondering if this literary experiment is going to hit… Read More
“The Pajama Game” is one of those shows that give musicals a bad name. It’s long, dated, corny. And more: It has a moral. Not only does it try to teach some lessons about triumphantly true love (standard fare in musicals) but it does so through a story… Read More
ROCKPORT — Reading David Amram’s resume — performer, composer of operas, symphonies and film scores, conductor, teacher, self-described ethnofunkologist — you see why he’s rightly called the Renaissance Man of American Music. Catch him in concert or working with school kids, surrounded by the dozens… Read More
Director Larason Guthrie knows that Anton Chekhov meant for “The Cherry Orchard” to be a comedy. When Guthrie makes introductory remarks at the Belfast Maskers Railroad Theater, where the production is being staged through May 26, he assures audiences that it’s OK to laugh. And… Read More
Sharon Zolper is one of the regulars from the local pool of talent at Penobscot Theatre. She has played Lady MacDuff in “Macbeth,” M’Lynn in “Steel Magnolias” and several other showcase roles. But none of them has been as convincing as her work in the current Penobscot show,… Read More
THE CONVERSATION BEGINS: MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS TALK ABOUT LIVING FEMINISM, By Christina Looper Baker and Christina Baker Kline, Bantam Books 1996, 387 pages hardcover, $22.95. Many mothers choose not to teach their daughters the f” word these days. They think it’s offensive, embarrassing, unnecessary, passe. Read More
THE TUNK POND EPISODE, by Carl C. Osgood, Vista House, Surry, Maine 1995, 203-page paperback, $19. The program was intended to be short … but it was shortened accidentally because … the safety valve on the engine popped open with a roar that drowned out… Read More
Playwright Patricia Scanlon has a thing about coffee. In her two one-act plays, which currently are being staged by Northern Lights Theatre at the art gallery, Space Between, cups of coffee become the central symbols for emotional lives in America. Her characters don’t measure life out in coffee… Read More
It’s one of the funniest and friendliest plays that Shakespeare wrote. And it has all the makings of a good battle-of-the-sexes story: suspense, wit, humor, trickery, and (most importantly) lots of true love. That’s why “Much Ado About Nothing” pulled in a large audience last… Read More
Stephen King’s serial book “The Green Mile” is about to get longer with Part 2, “The Mouse on the Mile,” which will be available in bookstores Monday, April 29. That’s longer as in: This 92-page segment goes on for a Maine mile and doesn’t seem… Read More
We told you he was coming. We showed you persistent fans in ticket lines. We did a quick history of his life and times, and we took you to the excitement of the first of his two performances at the University of Maine. Now we’re… Read More
Joyful, joyful was the sound of the Bangor Symphony Orchestra Saturday when it gave the first of two concerts this weekend at the Maine Center for the Arts. There was much to be joyful about. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]];… Read More
Those who attended last night’s concert at a full Maine Center for the Arts will never be able to tap their toes again without recalling — deep in their hearts and bones — the sounds of Ondekoza, the Demon Drummers of Japan. Performing on percussion instruments that ranged… Read More
Although snow covered the cowboy hats and boots of many of those who entered the Bangor Auditorium on Sunday afternoon, it quickly melted as three of country music’s hottest artists performed during a nearly four-hour show. Headlining the concert was Pam Tillis, the Country Music… Read More
The String Trio of New York, which performed Saturday at the Maine Center for the Arts, plays instruments that are well enough known. Violin. Guitar. Bass. However, the musicians — Regina Carter, James Emery and John Lindberg — can leave a listener dumbstruck with their uncanny approach to… Read More
THE CAMDEN CONNECTION, by Laurena Gilbert, Earbooks, Camden, Maine, 1995, audio book, 60 minutes, $9.95. CAMDEN — Radio announcer, pianist, composer, recording technician, artist: Leitha Christie is, in the parlance of the day, a one-woman multimedia experience. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes… Read More
To most people, spring means warmer weather and the rebirth of all things green and growing. To a book reviewer, it’s also a chance to take a peek at the publishers’ spring lists. To help you choose from among the hundreds of new books for children and young… Read More
THE EIGHTH OF SEPTEMBER, Barbara Stevens Sullivan, Astarte Shell Press, Portland, Maine, 1995, 236 pages, $12.95, paperback. For all the baby boomers who came of age in the late 1960s thinking we could just skip the school of hard knocks and come out better than… Read More
A decade ago, Scott Hamilton brought his fledgling Stars on Ice tour to Orono. The Alfond Arena date was the first stop of a five-date tour. It wasn’t a propitious start, as an electrical wire exploded, shooting sparks everywhere, which led to an evacuation of… Read More
Charlie Baker is dull. He’s depressing. He’s shy. He hates to speak and hates even more to be spoken to. He has the personality of Sheetrock. Just ask his wife. She’s the type of spouse that puts the “extra” in the term extramarital affair. Last count, she was… Read More
It would be uncannily correct to say that Evelyn Glennie has more rhythm in her little finger than most people have in their whole body. Or perhaps than they have in their whole life. When Glennie performed Friday night to a near-full house at the Maine Center for… Read More
Once he got past some of the crass language, Charles Dickens would probably be quite flattered by Stephen King’s “The Green Mile.” Published serially, in six installments, “The Green Mile Part 1,” which went on sale Monday, is a literary experiment that seeks to find out if the… Read More
What better celebration of spring than a tale of young lovers? That’s what the Oakland Ballet brought with a performance of “Romeo and Juliet” Friday at the Maine Center for the Arts in Orono. Ah, the exhilaration of love at first sight! Oh, that first kiss between literature’s… Read More
Musical maven Ken Stack has put the hoke in hokey with a down-home production of “The Wizard of Oz,” playing through next weekend at The Grand in Ellsworth. The cut-out plywood sets, the flying monkeys and witches, a Wizard with a Down East accent, and a fake dog… Read More
Don’t be put off that the Belfast Maskers company is presenting a play based on the complicated poetry of T.S. Eliot. You may remember from college English classes that Eliot was an American expatriate whose poems about the disillusionment of modern life after World War I were hard… Read More
If you ask Joe Cuddy, he’ll tell you there are folks in Ireland who believe that Jesus wasn’t a Jew. They’ll argue he was an Irishman and back it up by saying, “He had to be Irish. At 33, he was single, unemployed and still living with his… Read More
Conductor Christopher Zimmerman chose the perfect end-of-winter program for Sunday’s Bangor Symphony Orchestra concert at the Maine Center for the Arts. OK, it’s not as if winter were really over here in Maine, but it’s nice to be musically reminded that the passage of seasons… Read More
INSANITY, INC., by Carolyn McKinnon, R.N., Audenreed Press, Brunswick, Maine, 266 pages, $15.95, cloth. BEING THERE: Profiles of Mental Illness, by Karlene K. Hale, Dilligaf Publishing, Ellsworth, Maine, 109 pages, $15, paper. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes =… Read More
JAMES THURBER: HIS LIFE AND TIMES, by Harrison Kinney; Henry Holt and Co., 1,238 pages, $40. Harrison Kinney, Houlton High School, Class of ’39, was introduced to James Thurber on the shelves of the Cary Library through Thurber’s “My Life and Hard Times” when he… Read More
AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF MAINE, by Neil Rolde, illustration editor, Charles C. Calhoun, The Friends of the Maine State Museum, 212 pages, $55. People of the Dawn (Wabanakiak or Abenaki) is what Maine’s first inhabitants called themselves, and it aptly describes Maine’s character, as readers… Read More
IN THESE GIRLS, HOPE IS A MUSCLE: A True Story of Hoop Dreams and One Very Special Team, by Madeleine Blais; Warner Books, New York, 266 pages, $11.99 (paperback). Tourney fever in Maine anyone? Take another New England rural town, bigger than Orono, but not… Read More
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE AND THE BEECHER PREACHERS, by Jean Fritz, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, N.Y., 1994. $15.95, 144 pages. When Jean Fritz spoke at OZ Books in Southwest Harbor some years ago she was writing “Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Beecher Preachers,” so she went to… Read More
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A woman’s uterus and the life within it have been some of the most controversial and political subjects in the second half of this century. Perhaps one of the most challenging questions in regard to these subjects is: Should the fruit of a woman’s womb be a marketable… Read More
A production of Johann Strauss’ “Die Fledermaus” is a prodigious challenge for a university. It requires no less than opulence — with the set, the costumes, the orchestra and the voices. It demands both vocal agility and theatrical skill. It is a feat with which even New York’s… Read More
Seems like such a waste of good dance music to have to actually sit through the annual big-band concert at the Maine Center for the Arts in Orono. We should be dancing in a high school gym under a sky of glittery cut-out stars and puffy angel-hair clouds,… Read More
ORONO — Imagine the energy of “Fiddler on the Roof,” “Zorba the Greek” and “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers” all in one show, and all with a Ukrainian accent. Such was the spectacle of hot-blooded vigor presented by the Veryovka Ukrainian National Dance Company at… Read More
It’s hard to know for which legacy Werner Torkanowsky will be best remembered — his conducting, his compositions, or his performances on violin. This weekend, concertgoers had the chance to consider him in all these areas of his talent and expertise as two concerts at the Maine Center… Read More
RIDE THE WIND: USA TO AFRICA, by Anne Hillerman, Rio Grande Publishing. Where were you at 3 a.m. Sept. 16, 1992? Most of us were home in bed, although it appears that there was a significant group of eccentrics assembled at Bass Park to assist… Read More
ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN MAINE: ESSAYS IN BUSINESS ENTERPRISE, edited by Stuart Bruchey, Garland Publishing Co., $47, 194 pages of text, 7 pages of index. A reader who embarks on a literary journey expects some hazards, some obstacles, to be overcome. In this collection of papers written… Read More
COLLECTED POEMS OF SAMUEL FRENCH MORSE, edited by Guy Rotella, The National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine, Orono, 355 pages, $35 cloth, $19.95 paper. In the introduction to Samuel French Morse’s first book of poetry, “Time of Year (1943),” poet Wallace Stevens wrote of Morse:… Read More
FIRST TRACKS, STORIES FROM MAINE’S SKIING HERITAGE by Glenn Parkinson, Spectrum Printing, Auburn, Maine, 59 pages, $15.95 Downhill skiing historically has been one of the more expensive recreational sports in the lives of those who enjoy the outdoors. Skis, boots, bindings and warm-weather gear are… Read More
It’s freezing outside. The windows are iced, and the car chokes on its first morning breath. You wear more clothes in one day this time of year than you would through the whole summer. Yep, it’s the dead of winter. But don’t despair. When you’ve got the February… Read More
When asked if he had a favorite among his many works, Tennessee Williams would answer with a response used by many artists: “Always the latest.” In his memoirs, however, he wrote that, when pressed, he would “succumb” to the truth and admit that the published version of “Cat… Read More
It’s the sure-fire event of the year. People take time off from work to attend. They give away season tickets to basketball games. They stop whatever they are doing to go to the one professional opera of the year at the Maine Center for the Arts. In the… Read More
Tzena! Tzena! showed up for lunch yesterday at Husson College in Bangor, and proceeded to lift the spirits of everyone there with the joyful, passionate, 17th century Eastern European folk music called klezmer. Performing as part of Husson’s Lunch Break Series, the eight-member ensemble, including… Read More
If you’re a singer, then you know how important a big break can be. For many performers, it’s not so much talent, but being at the right place at the right time, that makes a star. Ask Max, the lead character in Ken Ludwig’s comic play “Lend Me… Read More
Dr. Walter J. Turnbull says that they look like angels. But the truth is they sound like angels and look like young American kids who could just as easily be playing a game of catch in the street — or be hanging out in a crack house. Read More
A KEEPER OF SHEEP, by William Carpenter, Milkweed Editions, 327 pages, $21.95. William Carpenter, a Maine resident and professor of English at the College of the Atlantic, is best known for his poetry. His first book of poems, “The Hours of Morning,” won the Associated… Read More
“The Right to Privacy,” by Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy, Knopf. $26.95. Did you have sex last night? Use the telephone this morning? Send an e-mail before lunch? Get stopped for speeding on the way to the store? googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var… Read More
“THE ARCTIC SCHOONER BOWDOIN A BIOGRAPHY,” by Virginia Thorndike, 1995 North Country Press, Unity, Maine, 260 pages, $16.95. I really wanted to like this book. I wanted it to be a vehicle by which the great unwashed (the vast majority of the sane world who… Read More
Just as the December chill settles in, composer-writer Kay Gardner has come up with an antidote to the prospect of a long, dark winter. With the yuletide pageant “Lucina’s Light,” which premiered Sunday at the Universalist Unitarian church in Bangor, Gardner asks us to look upon winter with… Read More
With Christmas just a little more than a week away, it may seem that a show about Christ’s crucifixion is getting ahead of the tale a bit. Nevertheless, the musical “Jesus Christ Superstar” played last night to a full and appreciative house at the Maine Center for the… Read More
Perhaps the most effective and poignant American story about gift-giving at Christmastime is O. Henry’s classic holiday story, “The Gift of the Magi,” about the jobless couple, Della and Jim Dillingham, and the depth of their charity toward one another. The tale has been adapted… Read More
Once you’ve heard The Canadian Brass play Christmas music, you know Christmas is here. With a tuba, French horn, trombone and two trumpets, the holiday is right in your face. Last night, at the Maine Center for the Arts, the quintet horned in on the season in a… Read More
Like many small children, Alex didn’t particularly care for bedtime. He’d fuss, complain and stall any way he could before his parents would finally prod him into the bedtime routine — pajamas donned, teeth brushed, stories read, and songs sung — before submitting to evening… Read More
“POLITICS OF CONSCIENCE: A BIOGRAPHY OF MARGARET CHASE SMITH,” by Patricia Ward Wallace, Praeger Publishers, 245 pages, $24.95. In a few days, Dec. 14 will move into history as always. But this year, it will be the first time in nearly a century that Margaret… Read More
“STAND FIRM YE BOYS FROM MAINE: The 20th Maine and the Gettysburg Campaign,” by Thomas A. Desjardin, Thomas Publications, 1995, Hardcover, 239 pages, $28. Charles Ayer, Brewer, age 22. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner… Read More
For most of my life, I’ve had no idea what a sugar plum was. But that never stopped me from going to the annual holiday performance of Tchaikovsky’s ballet “The Nutcracker.” The local production, presented devoutly by Robinson Ballet and the Bangor Symphony Orchestra, opened at the Maine… Read More
For a love story to be a compelling drama, the lovers usually die, separate, or kiss at the end. “Children of a Lesser God,” which was performed Sunday by Cleveland Signstage Theatre at the Maine Center for the Arts in Orono, has a much more ambiguous ending. Read More
SABBATHDAY LAKE — The warm aroma of just-harvested carrots and potatoes, apple pudding and homemade wheat bread waft through the hallways inside the main house at Shaker village. The words that come to mind: peaceful, serene, quiet. Last month, however, the Shakers became foot-stomping recording… Read More
STORIES FROM THE OLD SQUIRE’S FARM, by C.A. Stephens, edited and compiled by Charles G. Waugh and Eric-Jon Waugh, Rutledge Hill Press, Nashville, Tenn., 408 pages, $18.95. During the years between the Civil War and the 1920s, Maine writer Charles Asbury Stephens was one of… Read More
MORE GOOD OLD MAINE: 101 Past & Present Pop Delights, by Will Anderson, self-published, 140 pages, $17.95. To say that Will Anderson’s latest literary venture is just a book of old photographs would be to suggest that Governor’s is just a greasy spoon or Moxie… Read More
IF YOU CAME THIS WAY: A Journey Through the Lives of the Underclass, by Peter Davis, John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York, 202 pages, $22.95. “If You Came This Way: A Journey Through the Lives of the Underclass,” by Peter Davis, is a travelogue… Read More
When Broadway directors consider presenting a musical, one of the driving concerns is star power. What would “My Fair Lady” have been without Rex Harrison? Or “Camelot” without Julie Andrews and Richard Burton? Or “Hello, Dolly!” without Carol Channing or Pearl Bailey? When local director… Read More
Marsha Norman’s play “Traveler in the Dark” raises some provoking questions about faith and love. As with her earlier drama, the Pulitzer Prize-winning ” ‘Night Mother,” this play gets at the very stuff of life. It asks: Can we ever really expect to bridge the gap between the… Read More
The Bangor Symphony Orchestra gave its second classical concert of the season Sunday at the Maine Center for the Arts in Orono, and concert-goers would have been hard pressed to find another local event as entertaining. In terms of programming, Music Director Christopher Zimmerman chose a sure-fire combination… Read More
David Merrick, the original producer for the musical “Gypsy,” once lamented that audiences just aren’t interested in the problems of show people. Still, “Gypsy” was a hit when it first opened in the late 1950s with Ethel Merman, again in the 1970s with Angela Lansbury (who won a… Read More
At their best, family ties offer some of the closest, most intimate bonds we can expect to have in life. But families can also be marvelous as well as frustrating curiosities. Take Alice Sycamore’s family, for instance. Her mother writes plays because 8 years ago, a typewriter was… Read More
ORONO — Why, I wondered, after witnessing the Elisa Monte Dance Company’s story ballet “Feu Follett,” Saturday night at the Maine Center for the Arts in Orono, was my heart so gladdened? After all, the central theme of “Feu Follett” was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Evangeline,”… Read More
The ninth season of the Maine Center for the Arts got off to a sparkling start Saturday with a performance by Metropolitan Opera diva Roberta Peters. Although Peters was the highlight of the evening, her concert was not the only component of the gala. For… Read More
LIGHT ON AGING AND DYING: Wise Words Selected by Helen Nearing, Tilbury House Publishers, Gardiner, Maine, 153 pages, $14.95. Helen and Scott Nearing thought a lot about death, not in a morbid way, but in a practical way. They were prepared. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
CLAIMING, poems by Patricia Ranzoni, Puckerbrush Press, Orono, 90 pages, $8.95. In “Claiming,” Patricia Ranzoni’s first published collection of work, the Bucksport poet digs deep into her Maine roots to expose her backwoods — and often quite joyful — sense of history and self. From… Read More
“Little Acts of Treason” (Giant) — Carlene Carter Carter is genetically country. As the third generation of the Carter family, the daughter of Carl Smith and June Carter Cash and the stepdaughter of Johnny Cash, it’s in her blood. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
MOLLY SPOTTED ELK: A Penobscot in Paris, by Bunny McBride, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Okla., 360 pages, $24.95. Molly Spotted Elk danced her way from Old Town’s Indian Island to Boston, New York, California, France and back again. Her story, which is recounted in… Read More
If you magically had the chance to see what your child was doing after you threw him out of the house, would you look? Tricky business that. The 17th century playwright Pierre Corneille took a comic view of such a situation in “L’Illusion Comique,” which American playwright Tony… Read More
To say that the Bangor Symphony Orchestra’s new season started with a bang Sunday would be an understatement. It wasn’t just because Rep. John Baldacci read a letter of congratulations from President Clinton, or because BSO big-time supporter Charles Hutchins announced Gov. Angus King’s declaration that Maine will… Read More
While the trickling river waters flow in the background, a woman’s thoughts are expressed in a voice-over. “There’s a certain amount of personal peace by being close to the river,” she says. And later, her voice comes again: “The river has always been our lifeblood.”… Read More
The three generations of Westbrook women in Lee Blessing’s 1985 drama “Eleemosynary” have only one expectation from their lineage: to be extraordinary. And they are, particularly as presented in the Belfast Maskers’ production, which opened last weekend. The grand matriarch, Dorthea, lives by the credo… Read More
Some of my fondest memories of growing up in Washington, D.C., are of attending free concerts given by bands of the United States armed forces. The music always pleased my parents, especially my father, a Navy man. But it also amazed me because I was so smitten with… Read More
To keep them laughing is the goal of every comedian. To keep them thinking has been an additional bonus when the comedian is George Carlin. Onstage Saturday night for two shows at the Maine Center for the Arts, Carlin proved himself as nimble as ever when it comes… Read More
It was opening night in more ways than one Thursday when the 1992 Tony Award-winning musical “Crazy for You” began its 40-week tour and kicked off the new season at the Maine Center for the Arts. It was just the type of season opener that people love: It… Read More
MAINE SCENIC SPLENDOR: The Play of Color, Light and Shadow” by Paul Knaut Jr., Scenic Art Inc., distributed by the author, 237 Pine St., Dover-Foxcroft, Maine 04426, 80 pages, $16.95. The scenic beauty of Maine’s mountains and coast has always been the subject of a… Read More
ENTRIES FROM A HOT PINK NOTEBOOK, by Todd D. Brown, Washington Square Press, New York, 306 pages, $10 In light of the continuing controversy over the gay rights movement in Maine, especially evident in the current battle being waged between the Concerned Maine Families and… Read More
She’s one of the fastest-rising stars in country music, but it was a very down-to-earth Faith Hill who won over the large crowd at the Blue Hill Fair Monday night. “There’s a lot of ya,” the seemingly flattered Hill said in her Southern accent soon… Read More
The New World Globe Theatre, based at the Waterville Performing Arts Centre, made its local debut with a production of the musical “Man of La Mancha” Friday and Saturday at the Maine Center for the Arts. It was unusual fare for the facility, which has not generally opened… Read More
With their guitar-picking fingers readied at their sides, Marty Stuart and the Rock ‘n’ Roll Cowboys rode into Augusta on Thursday night. Only about 1,000 people came out to greet Stuart and his band at the stop along the concert trail, but those who did… Read More
You may think that the central question in Rick Abbot’s boisterous whodunit play “But Why Bump Off Barnaby?” is, indeed, the very same question in the title. And, of course, that is rather important to the plot. But after seeing the Belfast Maskers perform this zany piece, the… Read More
They came in cars, on bikes, in wheelchairs and on foot. They picnicked, quilted, danced and snuggled. And it didn’t matter that it was windy, hot and rainy. People wanted to hear the Bangor Symphony Orchestra present its chipper “Pops on the Green” concert Saturday at Husson College… Read More
IMAGES OF AMERICA, Around Ellsworth and Blue Hill, by Richard R. Shaw, Arcadia Publishing of Dover, N.H., 128 pages, $16.99. Picture a man in suit and hat calmly strumming a harp while sitting in a chair in the middle of Ellsworth’s Main Street, unmolested by… Read More
Maine: A Peopled Landscape Salt Documentary Photography, 1978 to 1995 Hugh T. French, editor Since this is the season in which tourists are flocking bumper-to-bumper to quaint Maine coastal villages and seafood festivals, it is a good time to dispell the image that all Mainers… Read More
“Maine’s Golden Road,” by John Gould, W.W. Norton, 191 pages, $21. At 80-something, John Gould has been traveling his own Golden Road for a few years now. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false;… Read More
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If there’s one thing British playwright Alan Ayckbourn knows well, it’s the you-gotta-have-a-gimmick approach to theater. His plays always have a theatrical device that adds to the hilarity of the witty, fast-paced interactions between characters. “How the Other Half Loves,” which ran on Broadway for a mere three… Read More
At the 103 acres of potato land that was the site for Spudstock ’95, ticket-holders reaped less live music than they expected, but it was clear many still dug the performance of Eddie Money. One of the lead bands, Blue Oyster Cult, failed to perform… Read More
Most of the University of Maine students are gone for the summer and some of the more popular nightspots are closed, but about 1,600 people were partying in Orono Monday night. “If you haven’t been to many country music concerts lately `party’ is the word,”… Read More
“Bell, Book and Candle,” by John Van Druten, is the type of light entertainment Acadia Repertory Theatre in Somesville does best. There’s that appealing mix of humor, magic and love that makes this play about modern sorcery an enchanting way to spend an evening. The… Read More
ROCKLAND — Like most major singers, country legend Bobby Bare loves minor chords. The Grammy award-winning Bare had the crowd of 1,200 attending his Saturday night concert at Schooner Days in the palm of his hand. But no more so than when he dipped his… Read More
Forget about rabid dogs and reincarnated cats. Ditch those little extraterrestrials and kooky clowns. It took him 35 books, but with his newest, “Rose Madder,” Stephen King has found the real horror of modern society: the wife beater. And not just any old wife beater,… Read More
PROVINCETOWN AND OTHER POEMS, by Leo Connellan, Curbstone Press, 77 pages, $11. Maine poet Leo Connellan has just published his 13th volume of poetry, “Provincetown and Other Poems.” googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner =… Read More