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With fashion brand ‘bubuleh,’ designer Jordan Star honors his heritage The gender-neutral, fashion-forward line pays homage to his grandparents, one of whom died of COVID-19 last year Courtesy Share The brim of the Signature Keppie Cap is chock full of Xs and Os and hearts — a fashion love letter with hugs and kisses to designer Jordan Star’s Jewish grandparents. The crew-necked and loose-fitting BH Relaxed Tee is adorned with the letters “b” and “h” in a broad brushstroke, lower-case design — a fashion inside joke for millennials flexing their Yiddishkeit and sense of Jew...

A. Sue Weisler Students last semester drew live birds brought by the organization Wild Wings. A Zoological and Botanical Illustration class being offered again this spring allows students to accurately depict animals and plants for use in various media. You thought 2020 was bad? Try living in the dark underworld of 19th-century Victorian England, which featured poverty, cholera, epidemics, the Summer of the Great Stink (which led to the first modern urban sewage system), madhouses, arsenic poisonings, and Jack the Ripper. Those topics will be discussed through literature in Victorians’ ...

The Spirit of Community Dancers, performing a dance interlude during “Spoon River Anthology.” “I can imagine what things sound like even though I am deaf,” Robert Panara wrote in his poem, “On His Deafness.” I can imagine the strumming of a guitar, I can imagine the rustle of a star. The words appear at the end of a new production of Edgar Lee Masters’ “Spoon River Anthology,” a century-old collection of poems re-envisioned with computer technology, and awarded new meaning by the raucous and confusing year of 2020. “That was p...

The Maine Community Foundation has awarded $95,000 in grants to 11 recipients in Hancock and Washington counties through its Downeast Innovation Fund, the foundation said. Launched in 2018, the fund supports nonprofits that provide programs to improve or increase entrepreneurship and innovation in business and the local economies in Hancock and Washington counties. Recipients in the latest funding round include the Maine Aquaculture Innovation Center Inc. in Walpole, which will receive $10,000 to study the feasibility of farming sea scallops in the two Downeast counties. New Ventures Maine ...

Biddeford arts organization Engine hires a new director Jessica Muise brings experience working with the creative economy and on community-building in the Boston area. Share Engine, the decade-old community catalyst in Biddeford that focuses on the arts, has hired a new executive director with experience in metro Boston as an artist, administrator, curator and community builder. Jessica Muise of Waltham, Massachusetts, will begin her duties in Biddeford on Feb. 1, after emerging from a field of about 75 applicants. She will replace Engine’s founding director Tammy Ackerman, who announced h...