NEW ON THE SHELF “Foxcatcher,” Steve Carell, Channing Tatum. Comedian Carell makes an ultimately successful bid for dramatic respect in this disturbing fact-based tale, chronicling the unlikely and unfortunate union between Olympian wrestlers David (Tatum) and Mark Schultz (Mark Ruffalo) and impenetrable billionaire John E. du Pont (Carell), who takes it upon himself to help […]
Arts & Entertainment
Arts and entertainment news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Television: ABC’s ‘American Crime’ series pushes hot buttons of race, culture
The show was created by the Oscar-winning writer of ’12 Years a Slave.’
Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry
Edited and introduced by Wesley McNair, Maine poet laureate. This week’s poem by the late Constance Hunting, a Maine poet and editor, describes a monkey she has trained to sit and write. What the monkey represents, she is not here to explain, of course. All we know is that she admires the “strange marks” the […]
Art Review: ‘Outsiders’ come inside for two fine shows
The June Fitzpatrick Gallery shows paintings by Lynda Litchfield, and Elizabeth Moss Galleries has sculpture by Angel Braestrup.
Theater Review: Dramatic Repertory Company’s ‘Gidion’s Knot’
The play centers on the interplay between a young teacher and a grieving parent.
Microbes loom large at Portland Library
The Lewis Gallery is showing images of microscopic marine creatures taken by scientists at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Science.
The hills are alive as ‘The Sound of Music’ movie celebrates its 50th anniversary
The musical starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer has stood the test of time … and then some.
Actor won’t upstage Scalia, just portray him
Edward Gero will play the role of the Supreme Court justice.
Dan Foley loses his pants, saves face on ‘Survivor’ episode
Even a renegade wave can’t strip the Gorham man of his desire to be the surviving ‘Survivor.’
Tony Hoagland returns to Maine to launch new poetry series
Lauded poet will read in Portland on April 16.