New on the shelf: ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ / ‘Hope Springs’ / ‘The Odd Life of Timothy Green’

‘No Refund for Content’ mines laughs from the conflict of wage slaves and their customers in a struggling Maine movie theater.

Lucy Kaplansky at One Longfellow Square / Dickens at Portland Stage / Distiller shares wisdom, spirits / Tour benefits Lyric Theater / Dear Leader at Empire / Caldbeck exhibit / Master baker talks bread / Fill your stockings at Picnic

Holiday TV programming for the week ahead:  THURSDAY • “Disney’s Christmas Carol” (8 p.m., ABC Family Channel): Uncle Scrooge plays Ebenezer.  FRIDAY • “The Santa Clause” (7 p.m., ABC Family Channel): Tim Allen stars as a divorced dad who becomes Santa.  SATURDAY • “The Borrowers” (8 p.m., ABC): Adaptation of Mary Norton’s children book about […]

If letter writing is a lost art — as the mysterious and omnipresent “they” are wont to say — then renewing your letter-writing skills in an art gallery makes sense. So if you haven’t written to your long-lost love since iPhones were invented, or if your family’s tradition of homemade holiday cards has morphed into […]

Nomar Slevik talks about why he released ‘The Healing Process’ on vinyl, what went into making it, and some of his sources of inspiration.