• This is a big week for the Portland Symphony Orchestra. At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, the PSO with Robert Moody at the helm presents a program titled “The Planets.” Moody has long been fascinated with the idea of space and space travel, and has assembled a program of music that includes John Williams’ score from […]

Mark Wethli made a painting in 2003. Seven years later, another artist had a different idea for the use of Wethli’s “canvas,” and the original was painted over. The folks who commissioned Wethli’s original painting decided they liked it so much, they hired someone else to replicate it, using the same colors and even the […]

PORTLAND – Ahmed Alsoudani came to Portland in 2001 with faint knowledge of Western society and minimal training in art. He left four years later with a degree from Maine College of Art and the confidence that he could make his life as a painter. Alsoudani, who grew up in Iraq and now lives in […]

YARMOUTH – The majestic elm tree known as Herbie succumbed to the ravages of Dutch elm disease this past winter. But Herbie’s legacy lives on. A group of artists from Yarmouth has kept the memory of the 217-year-old elm alive with an exhibition, “Majesty of Trees,” at Merrill Memorial Library. The exhibition includes two distinct […]

On stage • A new Shakespeare play? Hardly seems plausible. See for yourself at 8 p.m. Monday, when the Acorn Shakespeare Ensemble continues the company’s 2010-11 season with another edition of the troupe’s “Sonnet and Soliloquies” series at the Wine Bar on Wharf Street in Portland. Monday’s pre-election edition will feature four selections from “Double […]