Electric charges may take place constantly, but they are at their most dramatic in the dark. That’s what Capacitor, a multidisciplinary performance group, proved at a low-lit presentation Saturday at the Maine Center for the Arts in Orono. Under the direction of Jodi Lomask, a classically trained ballet… Read More
MEANWHILE, NEXT DOOR TO THE GOOD LIFE, by Jean Hay Bright, BrightBerry Press, Dixmont, Maine, 2003, $20. When I came to Maine in 1970, everyone I met talked about buying some land, homesteading and leaving the consumer economy behind. Most of us never had the… Read More
Editor’s Note: Maine Bound is a periodic column featuring new books that are either by authors, set in the Pine Tree State or have other local ties. CHAT ROOM, by Linda Hall, 2003, Multnomah Publishers, Sisters, Ore., 314 pages, paperback, $11.99 googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
In the recently published book, “Climb To Conquer,” on the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division, author Peter Shelton writes a fascinating story of the creation of the “ski troops,” the actions they participated in during World War II and the post-war contributions the veterans made to outdoor recreation. Read More
KNITTING INTO THE MYSTERY: A GUIDE TO THE SHAWL-KNITTING MINISTRY, by Susan S. Jorgensen and Susan S. Izard, Morehouse Publishing, 2003, 160 pages, $17.95. Like most knitters, Susan Izard and Susan Jorgensen, authors of “Knitting into the Mystery: A Guide to the Shawl-Knitting Ministry,” have… Read More
Helen Keller was deaf, blind and mute, but during her lifetime she was one of the most articulate women alive. Mark Twain compared her in importance to Napoleon, Homer and Shakespeare. Winston Churchill called her the “greatest woman of our age.” Her autobiography, “The Story of My Life,”… Read More
Orchestra Verdi Europa, which has been critically acclaimed in Europe, is kicking off its first tour in America this month. One of its early stops was Friday at the Maine Center for the Arts in Orono, where the 50-member orchestra and 50-member chorus performed an all-Mozart program: the… Read More
If a two-hour classical concert is going to feature the works of a single composer, the orchestra has to behave with oceanic musicality. It has to play the drama, find the nuances and keep the audience feeling that there is a progression rather than an obsession being explored. Read More
Through Stephen King’s long career, the Dark Tower has loomed in the background. The Bangor author has followed his muse wherever it led, be it writing novels, short stories, nonfiction or screenplays, producing movies or TV programs, or even (God help us) making Hitchcockesque cameos… Read More
“Northern Observations,” paintings by Ed Nadeau and Nina Jerome, through Dec. 1, Department of Art Gallery, second floor, Carnegie Hall, University of Maine, Orono. Looking at Ed Nadeau’s early paintings is like watching reruns of “Northern Exposure,” only stranger. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
Tru Davies is having a bad day. A recent college graduate, Tru finds out that her hospital internship, which she saw as her ticket to med school, has been eliminated. Instead, she takes the only thing she can find in a related field – working… Read More
THE INMATES AND THE ASYLUM: THE BANGOR CHILDREN’S HOME, 1835-2002, by Trudy Irene Scee, published by the Hilltop School, Bangor, 420 pages, $24. When I heard that local author Trudy Irene Scee had written a history of the Bangor Children’s Home, I knew it would… Read More
Freckle-faced Ayla Allen, 9, of Brewer had a night to remember Friday during the Rascal Flatts concert at the Bangor Auditorium. As an early birthday surprise, Ayla’s grandmother, Alicia Allen, of Brewer gave her a backstage pass to meet the performers at Country Music Television’s… Read More
“Terra Nova,” Ted Tally’s play about the early 20th-century race between five Englishmen and five Norwegians to reach the South Pole, eventually comes down to this: “Would you like to kill your mates or kill yourself?” In the course of this brutal, ice-bound drama, performed… Read More
Most families would consider themselves lucky to have one talented musician among their ranks, but the Leahys are blessed many times over. The award-winning Canadian musical family gave its audience a phenomenal show Saturday at the Maine Center for the Arts with its perfectly blended… Read More
It would have seemed so unlikely just a month ago. But there we were last Thursday night at the Wachovia Arena in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., at the kickoff concert of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel’s Old Friends 2003 tour. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var… Read More
Editor’s Note: Features new books that are either by Maine authors, set in the Pine Tree State or have other local ties. Steve Perrin is a Bar Harbor retiree who enjoys quiet marathon hikes; Stephen Gorman is a Vermont adventurer who seeks out high-octane wilderness. Read More
Professor Harold Hill brought his 76 trombones to the Maine Center for the Arts on Sunday for a rousing performance of “The Music Man.” Meredith Wilson’s classic musical about the traveling con man who takes an Iowa town by storm and loses his heart to… Read More
“The Gardens of Frau Hess” is a lemon of a play. No matter how the Belfast Maskers shine and polish it with impressive performances or a lovely set and fine technical work, under the hood, it needs a major overhaul before it’s ever going to… Read More
Dear Penobscot Theatre: We’ve known each other for many years, through good times and bad. So I feel emboldened to write this letter to you after last week’s premiere of A.R. Gurney’s two-person romantic drama “Love Letters” at the Opera House. Make no mistake; this… Read More
THE LOST NEW ENGLAND NINE, by Will Anderson, Anderson and Sons’ Publishing Co., Bath, Maine, 2003, 140 pages, $19.95. It was the recurring dream on the endless, dusty summer afternoons spent in right field on a baseball field in some rocky, vacant lot. Some of… Read More
“Please, release me. Let me go.” Engelbert Humperdinck serenaded a sold-out house Saturday night at the Maine Center for the Arts in Orono. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes = []; var has_banner = false; for (var i =… Read More
One of my fondest childhood memories is hopping into the family Plymouth, riding 12 miles to Old Town and watching the Bangor Band perform in the local bandstand. Trumpeter Ward Shaw, gussied up in white shirt, blue blazer and black trousers, helped fill the summer air with the… Read More
Editor’s Note: Features new books that are either by authors, set in the Pine Tree State or have other local ties. A MOOSE AND A LOBSTER WALKED INTO A BAR…, by John McDonald, Islandport Press, Frenchboro, Maine; 2003, $14.95. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
If I were 10 years old with a yen to knit, I’d want Melanie Falick’s “Kids Knitting” (Artisan, 2003) in my backpack and I’d probably lug it around until it was dog-eared and bent. And no doubt I’d have the backpack stuffed with yarn and I’d be toting… Read More
Rob Lowe didn’t spend much time on the prime-time TV sidelines. Less than a full season after his badly handled exit from “The West Wing,” Lowe is back in a new series, “The Lyon’s Den,” which debuts at 10 p.m. Sunday on NBC. googletag.cmd.push(function ()… Read More
The season of leaf and petal is fading fast, but there’s still time to preserve the remaining blooms to serve as reminders of gardens past and gardens to come. Dahlias, marigolds, zinnias, hydrangea, yarrow and even a few roses are still in bloom. All are likely candidates for… Read More
ORONO – Intrigue. Deception. Lust. Racism. Jealousy. Abuse. Murder. When the Aquila Theatre Company brought its production of “Othello” to the Maine Center for the Arts Wednesday night as part of the National Endowment for the Arts’ Shakespeare in American Communities program, it had all… Read More
A circle of six pals, three men and three women, gathering at each other’s apartments or eateries to discuss life and relationships. It’s a formula that’s worked wonderfully for NBC before with “Friends.” Now that network’s honchos hope they’ve found that departing series’ replacement in… Read More
If it’s fall, it must be time for another new series from David E. Kelley. One would think that the uber-producer, who grew up in Waterville as the son of then Colby hockey coach Jack Kelley, would have enough on his hands with his existing… Read More
As the first of tonight’s new series proves, creating TV programs isn’t rocket science. You just take elements of other popular shows and mash them together. If you do it well enough, the viewing public just might buy it as something original. googletag.cmd.push(function () {… Read More
If you happened to be near the Maine Center for the Arts in Orono on Sunday afternoon, you may have seen the roof of the concert hall pulsing slightly upward. That’s because inside Maestro Xiao-Lu Li, conductor of the Bangor Symphony Orchestra, was leading the musicians in a… Read More
Without even blinking an eye, Al Bernstein recalls the exact date he began penning his personal manuscript: Jan. 30, 1954. Escaping to the early-morning solitude of his Bangor home’s furnace room, he would sit at a folding table, under a single light bulb, and pour… Read More
For the past two years, as it has in regular life, Sept. 11 has had fallout in the TV world. Most production staff have had the common sense to use the effect of that day on the American psyche sparingly, as part of the backdrop, or as an… Read More
When I picked up a copy of “What’s Cooking at Moody’s Diner,” a newly revised edition of the famed Waldoboro restaurant’s 1989 cookbook, I rolled my eyes at the large dose of nostalgia I was sure I would find within its pages. Nostalgia, that is, for a time… Read More
Editor’s Note: Maine Bound features new books that are either by Maine authors, set in the Pine Tree State or have other local ties. STALIN’S EYES by Tony Brinkley, Puckerbrush Press, Orono, Maine, 2002; 214 pages, trade paperback, $19.95. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
Little Cranberry Island (also known as Islesford), off the coast of Mount Desert Island, has always been a favorite for artists, with its fishermen, its docks, its scenes of schooners and fish boats, its rocky shore, its churning surf, and its meandering roads and picturesque houses, some of… Read More
ORONO – Fueled by the announcement that he and his old partner are teaming up for a reunion tour, Art Garfunkel wowed a sold-out crowd Saturday night at the Maine Center for the Arts. Garfunkel’s performance at the MCA’s Opening Gala appeared to be his… Read More
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MEMOIRS OF A BABY STEALER, by Mary Callahan, Pinewoods Press, Lisbon, Maine, 2003, $9.95, 225 pages. The title of Mary Callahan’s new book neatly sums up her quarrel with Maine’s foster care system. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes… Read More
THIS SPLENDID GAME: MAINE CAMPAIGNS AND ELECTIONS, 1940-2002, by Christian P. Potholm, Lexington Books, Lanham, Md., 2003, 243 pages, paperback, $25.95. It’s not unusual for college and university professors to write textbooks for the courses they teach. It is rare for such a tome to… Read More
Editor’s Note: Maine Bound is a column featuring new books that are either written by Maine authors, set in the Pine Tree State or have other local ties. THE SINNER, by Tess Gerritsen, Ballantine, New York, 2003, 352 pages, hardcover, $24.95. googletag.cmd.push(function () { //… Read More
LETTERS FROM A CIVIL WAR SURGEON, by Dr. William Child, Polar Bear & Company, Solon, 400 pages, $25. The Civil War has been explored from every angle by legions of professional historians to the point, where there is nothing new under the literary sun. Or… Read More
ELMIRA, N.Y. – Juan LeBron’s three-run home run with one out in the fourth gave the Bangor Lumberjacks a three-run lead early, but it was a four-run ninth that provided the final margin as the ‘Jacks came away with an 8-4 Northeast League victory over Elmira Tuesday night. Read More
MOLLIE KATZEN’S SUNLIGHT CAFE, by Mollie Katzen, Hyperion, $29.95. Mollie Katzen is out to change the way you eat. Again. You’re probably familiar with Katzen’s name. If not, then you may still recall her 1972 “Moosewood Cookbook”- one of the best-selling cookbooks of all time… Read More
SEARSPORT – New England is blessed with a number of coastal museums devoted to presenting the nautical history of the region – and the world, considering that many of the shipping routes that circled the globe connected with the northeast edge of America. Over the years, one of… Read More
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IMAGES OF RAIL: MAINE NARROW GAUGE RAILROADS, by Robert L. MacDonald, Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, S.C., 2003, 128 pages, paperback, $19.99. Narrow-gauge railroads are much more human in scale than standard-gauge railways. They are kid-sized in comparison to the standard-gauge trains that still rumble through Maine… Read More
Acadia Repertory Theatre’s new production of “Relatively Speaking,” Alan Ayckbourn’s mistaken-identity comedy now playing through Aug. 10 at the Masonic Hall in Somesville, is a lesson in first impressions. Usually you can trust them. Not this time. The first scene is a slow-burning and rigid… Read More
The Gibbs girls never wandered far from home. Even in their golden years, they live in each other’s pockets. Except, of course, for Esther. She moved practically across town when she married David, the college professor too good for the rest of the Gibbses. Ida,… Read More
The Penobscot Theatre Company is in no danger of bringing down its final curtain. In fact, the theater’s future is looking brighter every day, Producing Artistic Director Marc Torres told the opening night audience last week at PTC’s summer production of “The Fantasticks” in the Bangor Opera House. Read More
Mary offers to buy her sister something from the L.L. Bean catalog, but Lili only wants a letter. Such is the nature of relationships in Claire Chafee’s award-winning play “Why We Have a Body.” The four women characters keep offering each other unwanted, unnecessary things… Read More
FX has taken an approach to original programming that other basic cable channels ought to emulate. They’ve gone slow but steady, choosing projects carefully and not oversaturating the market, focusing the spotlight on one series at a time. Pushing the envelope standardswise doesn’t hurt, either. Read More
Bar Harbor Theatre is offering theatergoers a July valentine with a production of “Talley’s Folly” that is sweet without turning saccharine, droll without sinking to cynicism and sensitive without being maudlin. Under the direction of Patricia Riggin, a former member of the theater department at… Read More
The year is 1946 and Harry Brock is in Washington, D.C., to buy himself a senator. He also intends to expand his junk business and collect all the metal strewn across Europe in the just-ended war. On his arm is Billie Dawn, a blond bombshell… Read More
THE LITTLE RED (SOX) BOOK, by Bill “Spaceman” Lee with Jim Prime, Triumph Books, Chicago, 2003, 224 pages, $19.95. If we can’t make Bill “Spaceman” Lee president, can’t we at least make him commissioner of baseball? googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes =… Read More
LIFE UNDER ICE, by Mary M. Cerullo, photos by Bill Curtsinger; Tilbury House, Gardiner, Maine, 2003, $16.95. Whales, seals and gigantic starfish and hundreds of penguins – how can you go wrong? googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot var slot_sizes = [[300,250]]; var new_slot_sizes =… Read More
ORONO – A dramatic rally gave the Bangor Lumberjacks their third come-from-behind win in the last five days and a 5-4, 10-inning victory over the North Shore (Lynn, Mass.) Spirit Wednesday night. The winning run came without the benefit of a hit as Todd Brock… Read More
PORTLAND – Justin Sherrod hit a fly ball off the right- field wall with the bases loaded and one out in the 10th inning to lead the Portland Sea Dogs to a 3-2 victory over the New Britain Rock Cats Monday night at Hadlock Field. Read More
CROSSING AMERICA, by Leo Connellan, CD produced by Chris King and Lij. skuntry.com, Wayne, N.J., 2003. $12. Leo Connellan’s poetic energy hits full force in a new CD of a recording he made in the late 1990s of “Crossing America,” a series of poems carved… Read More
When you think mathematician, you may picture geeky guys with broken eyeglass frames and mismatched clothes. Not so if you’re talking about the characters in David Auburn’s math-heavy drama “Proof,” now at Acadia Repertory Theatre in Somesville. First of all, the central mathematician in the… Read More
STEAL AWAY, by Linda Hall, Multnomah Publishers, Sisters, Ore., 2003, 288 pages, paperback, $11.99. At last, New Brunswick novelist Linda Hall has found the right loom for successfully weaving mystery and religion into a compelling tapestry. Her latest book, “Steal Away,” returns the Fredericton writer… Read More
BROOKLIN, by Brooklin Keeping Society, Arcadia, Charleston, S.C., 2003, 128 pages, $19.99. I like old things, so I was prepared to enjoy the book of historic photographs the Brooklin Keeping Society has put together for the Images of America series. And I wasn’t disappointed. googletag.cmd.push(function… Read More
When it comes to a Sam Shepard script, you can count on loneliness, misery, menace, family dysfunction, dark humor, perhaps some violence and, for sure, a whole lot of guyness. It’s great stuff. But what I was really missing in the new Ten Bucks Theater… Read More
“Dinner with Friends,” presented by the Belfast Maskers through May 25, is a play about marriage. It’s not about how great marriage is, or how bad marriage is. Donald Margulies’ 2000 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama is about how messy marriage is: good, bad or indifferent – all of which… Read More
One of the best lines in “I Hate Hamlet,” the ditsy comedy running through Sunday at Penobscot Theatre, comes from a surly L.A. producer who sums up the works of Shakespeare as “algebra onstage.” After all, who hasn’t felt at one time or another that the Bard requires… Read More
TV long has been a brand-name medium, from its early days of “Texaco Star Theater,” “Colgate Comedy Hour” and “The Gillette Cavalcade of Sports” to the present. ABC and Bangor’s own Stephen King have enjoyed a fruitful partnership over the past dozen years, and a… Read More
WHEN BOSTON WON THE WORLD SERIES, by Bob Ryan, Running Press, Philadelphia, 2003, 192 pages, $18.95. Many New Englanders will find it hard to believe, but there was a time when Boston dominated the baseball world. The team, in fact, won the very first World… Read More
The star of “Wilderness & Spirit: A Mountain Called Katahdin” is Katahdin (or Ktaadn, meaning “great mountain,” in Penobscot). From the new documentary’s opening sequence of views of the mountain filmed from various locales and in different seasons, we rarely stray far from its steep slopes and rocky… Read More
PORTLAND – The first question that comes to mind after Cher’s concert Wednesday night in Portland: Who’s going to keep Bob Mackie busy now? The veteran clothing designer’s most prominent model said her goodbyes to a sellout crowd of 6,528 at the Cumberland County Civic… Read More
ORONO – Orono youth in grades three to eight will have a new opportunity this summer. The Orono Recreation Department announced its newest summer program, the Fundamental Basketball School, which will provide the opportunity for area youth to learn the skills of basketball in a positive environment that… Read More
From a distance, the members of Ethos Percussion Group look like a nerdy all-guy garage band with an obsessive collection of drums. Dressed in black pants and casual shirts, the four players spread across the stage Saturday at the Maine Center for the Arts and situated themselves at… Read More
ORONO – Headliner and East Coast rapper Fat Joe was a no-show at this year’s Bumstock festival, held over the weekend at the University of Maine. “Due to circumstances beyond our control Fat Joe wasn’t able to make it,” said Matt Rodrigue, University of Maine’s… Read More
THE WILD OUT YOUR WINDOW: EXPLORING NATURE NEAR AT HAND, by Sy Montgomery, Down East Books, Camden, 2002, 250 pages, $15.95. Sy Montgomery is the most natural of naturalists. Whether the realm is plant or animal, the territory the Amazon River or the Appalachian Trail,… Read More
LIVING WILD AND DOMESTIC: THE EDUCATION OF A HUNTER-GARDENER, by Robert Kimber, The Lyons Press, Guilford, Conn.; 2002, $22.95. When you sit down to breakfast, do you consider the meaning of life for the pig that became your bacon, or the happiness of the hens… Read More
Maine Times is back. Again. Actually, it is back in two forms. The first, which is most true to the fighting character of the Maine weekly founded in 1968, is one of seven forthcoming collections of original Maine Times stories. Compiled and culled meticulously to… Read More
ANOTHER THURSDAY: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, by H.R. Coursen, The Mathom Bookshop, Dresden, Maine, 2002, 128 pages, paperback, $9.95. The weather this April being crueler than usual, it’s refreshing to run across a poetry collection that reminds us of the excellence National Poetry Month seeks… Read More
It’s easy to list successful series with predominantly minority casts: “The Cosby Show,” “The Jeffersons,” “Sanford & Son,” “Good Times,” “What’s Happening?” But the list gets a whole lot shorter when it comes time to list the dramas of color that endured for any length… Read More
For those who came directly from church services to the final concert of the Bangor Symphony Orchestra season Sunday afternoon, it must have seemed as if Heaven itself was conspiring to extend the message of the day right into the Maine Center for the Arts. This was hardcore… Read More
For a Victorian thriller, Patrick Hamilton’s “Angel Street” offers little mystery to audiences. The plot and villain are revealed almost immediately. The murder takes place 15 years earlier. The missing rubies in the story turn up handily. There’s just no whodunit in this ornate parlor. Read More
ELLSWORTH – He did it in 1994. Then again in 2002. And now, he’s back this spring in the third local production in fewer than 10 years of George Bernard Shaw’s story about a high-strung professor who shapes a flower girl from the street into a lady fit… Read More
Any new TV series is a gamble. But in the case of cable channel FX, a relative neophyte in the area of original programming, the stakes are especially high, as executives there had to choose a show to launch following the critical acclaim given to… Read More
Violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, who performed energetically together Friday at the Maine Center for the Arts, are musicians who force you to take a stand about their performances. To their well-trained talents, they add interpretive sorcery. They grimace and lurch with phrasing to such an… Read More
THE ZUNI CAFE COOKBOOK, by Judy Rodgers, W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 2002, 550 pages, $35. It seems there are certain prerequisites to becoming a chef of true stature. One of those appears to be having spent some formative years in France or Italy,… Read More
ORONO – Just before leaving for Saturday’s performance of “Forbidden Broadway” at the Maine Center for the Arts, a friend who had seen the show in New York City, where it began 20 years ago, asked if a sendup of Broadway musicals could possibly be interesting to a… Read More
There’s a telling line at the opening of Oscar Wilde’s 1895 comedy “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Algernon Montcrieff, a bachelor whose white lies preserve his ability to lead a double life, is playing music. He tells his manservant: “I don’t play accurately – anyone can play accurately… Read More
ORONO – Three men took the stage at Maine Center for the Arts last Wednesday night and signaled the start of an electrifying performance by the Ailey II dance company. The percussive beat of drums and intricate footwork in choreographer Robert Battle’s “Takedeme” set the stage for an… Read More
Writers Jay Davis and Tim Hughes first started delving into Belfast’s history as part of a research project for documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, who produced a four-hour film about the midcoast city in the 1980s. But as they began interviewing city residents and reading old… Read More
London theatergoers braved bombs and walked through rubble to see Noel Coward’s comedy “Blithe Spirit” when it opened in 1942. The British playwright wrote it in a six-day marathon the previous year as a distraction and amusement for audiences during his nation’s most trying times. Read More
ORONO – You’d think not much could compete with Mozart and Mussorgsky, followed by Sousa’s rousing march, “The Stars and Stripes Forever,” but for Taylor Rogers, Henry Mancini is tops. “The ‘Pink Panther’ was still my favorite,” the 8-year-old said Monday morning at the end… Read More
A SENSE OF PLACE: COLLECTED MAINE POEMS, edited by Lillian B. Kennedy, Alice N. Persons and Nancy A. Henry; Bay River Press, Auburn, Maine, 2002; 99 pages, paperback, $7. A cutout in the gray paper cover of “A Sense of Place” frames a reproduction of… Read More
The Bangor Symphony Orchestra celebrated the artist at its concert Sunday, performing Modest Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” with a stunning combination of reverence, awe and wonder. Under the direction of conductor Xiao-Lu Li, the orchestra flooded the Maine Center for the Arts in Orono… Read More
ORONO – They say it takes two to tango. Georgina Corbo proved them wrong as she danced passionately across the stage Sunday night during The Core Ensemble’s production of “Tres Vidas” at the University of Maine’s Minsky Recital Hall. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
Film fanatics and baby boomers remember 1966 as the year of “The Endless Summer.” The documentary about surfers’ global quest for the perfect wave became a hit on college campuses and in art movie houses around the world. Bangor High School graduate Carey Zolper, 24,… Read More
ORONO – Eldritch is a dying Midwestern town. Most of the inhabitants have been forced to desert it to find jobs and fulfillment. Both are sorely lacking in Eldritch, which derives its name from a Scottish word meaning unnatural, hideous or weird. Yet, what happens… Read More
EDMUNDSTON, New Brunswick – Seraphin Poudrier was an old miser who used his money and his stature to manipulate people in the tiny Quebec village of Sainte-Adele during the 1890s, according to legend. Poudrier, who was the village’s mayor and undertaker, became a folkloric character among the French-speaking… Read More
THE TOMORROW LOG, by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, Meisha Merlin Publishing, Decatur, Ga., 2003, 352 pages, paperback, $16. In their latest book, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, like many characters whose exploits they chronicle, are exploring unknown territory. googletag.cmd.push(function () { // Define Slot… Read More
There’s a new alien in Belfast. Not the kind who sneaks in to buy American gas. This one’s curious, cuddly, gregarious and green. He’s the star of “Resident Alien,” a comic fable that kicks off the Belfast Maskers’ 2003 season. Written by Stuart Spencer, the… Read More
Bring up the name Neil Simon around theater people, and you may see eyes roll. Like Stephen King, Simon is not considered high art. Also like King, Simon is one of the most successful writers of his genre in the world. No matter which side… Read More
You wouldn’t want to say director Stephanie Slewka is mailing it in, but there is a postcard glossiness to the lobster boats, summer people, spunky locals and Bean boots of North Haven island, the topic of a one-hour documentary, “On This Island,” which airs at 11 tonight nationally… Read More