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Strange trips

Seeking the Pine Tree State’s weirder side
If you want this summer’s eerie subject matter to hit a bit closer to home, or a bit closer to reality, check out Strange Maine: True Tales from the Pine Tree State , by Michelle Souliere (The History Press; $17.99).
By DEIRDRE FULTON | June 16, 2010

High and low culture from Japan

Art of the Hole Dept.
Attention, admirers of quirky kitsch and over-the-top aesthetics: hit PAUSE on that Belle and Sebastian record for a second.
By LANCE GOULD | June 02, 2010

Quivering timbers

A suspended forest in Brunswick
What’s a tree without roots? Usually it’s the kitchen cabinet or a sheaf of inkjet paper, but for Maine artist Jacob Galle, the answer is a lot less complicated.
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | April 28, 2010

Book Review: The Tin Drum

Günter Grass and Tin Drum 2
There are — and have always been — two Günter Grasses. There's the Grass who was born in Danzig and the Grass who was born in Gdansk.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | December 15, 2009

Ode to fiddleheads

Going green
Do you have pteridomania?
By DEIRDRE FULTON | May 13, 2009

Growing good air

Going green
What's greener than houseplants?
By DEIRDRE FULTON | February 18, 2009

Love and politics

Boleros for the Disenchanted ; November ; Martha Mitchell Calling
In Boleros for the Disenchanted , Puerto Rican–born José Rivera looks beyond the fairy dust and sexual spark to probe the full meaning of “till death do us part.”
By CAROLYN CLAY | October 21, 2008

Shifting sands

The real lesson of the Desert of Maine
If you want to know what the future holds, take a ride up to the Desert of Maine in Freeport.
By JEFF INGLIS | June 18, 2008

Sleeping with the enemy

Tennessee Williams’s Milk Train stops in Hartford
Who knew the azure waters off the Amalfi Coast flowed into the River Styx?
By CAROLYN CLAY | June 03, 2008

Fiddling with fiddleheads

A seasonal treat, explained
The fiddlehead is Maine’s simplest, and quite possibly Maine’s most revered, delicacy.
By TODD RICHARD | May 28, 2008

Hot stuff

Global-warming study looks local
When we think of global warming, we picture glaciers melting, sunbathing polar bears, and The Day After Tomorrow .
By GREG COOK | April 18, 2007

Meaning of life

Mad Horse explores Joe Egg’s existence
Over the ten years of their daughter Joe’s life, middle-class Sheila and Bri (Lisa Muller-Jones and Dave Currier) have given her dozens of different personalities.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | February 07, 2007

Fresh forms

Cristin Searles’s playful “Installation”
Providence artist Cristin Searles’s cloth sculptures sprout from the walls of Rhode Island College’s Bannister Gallery like an infestation — but in a good way.
By GREG COOK | December 12, 2006

City of the dead

Mount Auburn Cemetery looks back on 175 years — and ahead to an eternal future
Some are simple slabs, inscribed only with a name and two dates. Others are enormous and imposing: stylized Etruscan sarcophagi, sculpted Grecian urns.
By MIKE MILIARD | November 30, 2006

Sea invaders pose a threat to Narragansett Bay

Small world
Invasive plants are displacing Rhode Island’s native vegetation, changing the landscape and making it more difficult for amphibians, fish, and birds to survive.
By STEVEN STYCOS | October 11, 2006

Searching themselves

New book recounts the hunt for a woman and her killer
The authors of Finding Amy: A True Story of Murder in Maine had no way of knowing their book would come out at a time when the Portland City Council was talking about how to control the nightlife in the city’s busiest district.
By JEFF INGLIS | May 10, 2006