PORTLAND — Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance has launched a new series of Saturday writing workshops in November. The workshops are hosted in communities around the state and focus on a variety of writing disciplines, including memoir, poetry and more. On Nov. 10, award-winning author Elizabeth Peavey will teach the memoir workshop “The Best Truth: […]

BRUNSWICK — Dahlov Ipcar’s newest board book for young children, “Maine Alphabet,” hot off the press, and her seventh republished children’s book “Stripes and Spots,” will be on sale at Mid Coast Hospital on Friday, Nov. 9, from 10 a.m. to noon, when she holds her fifth book signing sponsored by the MCH Auxiliary. A […]

BRUNSWICK — Eighteen artists from Circling the Square Fine Art Press and One of a Kind Printers will be exhibiting new work together. This project brought two groups of artists out of their individual studios to exchange work and ideas through the making of fine art prints. The show, Collaborative Connections, will be on view […]

BRUNSWICK — Gulf of Maine Books will feature a reading and book signing by Brunswick author Sarah Slagle Arnold for her new book, “Faith and Madness — A Spiritual and Psychological Journey,” on Sunday at 3 p.m. at the 134 Maine St. store. Arnold is a psychologist/psychoanalyst and writer living in Maine. For 30 years […]

BATH — On Tuesday, Nov. 6, at 6:30 p.m, Patten Free Library, 33 Summer St., will present a special election night screening of “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.” James Stewart, Jean Arthur and Claude Rains star in Frank Capra’s 1939 award-winning classic about an idealistic, small-town senator who heads to Washington and suddenly finds himself […]

BRUNSWICK — The Mutineers will again team up with Frontier Cafe in Fort Andross for a holiday benefit concert on Friday, Nov. 9, at 7 p.m. Joining The Mutineers on stage will be Ted DeMille & Bobby St. Pierre, two of the finest acoustic musicians in Maine, a news release said. All proceeds will go […]

BRUNSWICK — First Light Camera Club will have Mike Leonard, well-known area photographer and Photoshop teacher present “Intro to Digital Photography” at its next regular meeting on Thursday, Nov. 8, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at People Plus, 35 Union St. According to a news release, this is everything one should know but never took […]

SAN FRANCISCO One of the many intriguing sub-plots in “Star Wars” lore is just how many sequels moviemaker George Lucas originally wanted to make. The most popular conception is that Lucas envisioned nine movielength episodes, broken into three separate trilogies to be released over 20 to 40 years. Under this line of thinking, the original […]

LOS ANGELES Movie nerds went nuts on Twitter upon hearing the news Tuesday that Disney was buying Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion. Many were psyched about the prospect of three new “Star Wars” movies, starting with the tentatively titled “Episode 7” in 2015, while others were worried that the Disney empire would ruin the Evil Empire. […]

The Walt Disney Co. announced it is buying LucasfilmLtd., the company behind the iconic “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones” franchises, for $4.05 billion. Lucasfilm is alreadyworking on a new “Star Wars” trilogy, with a seventh movieplanned for 2015.Below is a list of some of Lucasfilm’s movies.“Star Wars” series:— “Star Wars” (1977)— “The Empire Strikes Back” […]