2021 – Page 3067 – The Portland Press Herald

Greg Kesich, Op-eds, Opinion

The View From Here: Three dots say more than you think

by Greg Kesich February 7, 2021February 6, 2021

Technology has given us a lot of new ways to communicate – and a lot of ways to be misunderstood.

Op-eds, Opinion

Maine Observer: On my knees praying for new knees

by Lee Van Dyke Special to the Telegram February 7, 2021February 6, 2021

A lifetime of rough use has made the most reverent of joints ready for renewal.

Op-eds, Opinion

Black History Month: Gerald Talbot, Maine’s first Black lawmaker

February 7, 2021February 6, 2021

During his three House terms, Talbot championed migrant worker rights, Indian tribal sovereignty, fair housing and creating a holiday to honor King.

Arts & Entertainment

A closer look at Robert Duncanson, the Black landscape artist behind the inaugural painting presented to the Bidens

by Kelsey Ables The Washington Post February 7, 2021February 3, 2021

Moments after laying out his vision for the country with his own broad, bold brushstrokes, newly inaugurated President Joe Biden set his sights on another hopeful vision of America. At the inaugural gift-giving ceremony in the Rotunda at the U.S. Capitol, Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., presented Biden and first lady Jill Biden with “Landscape with […]

Op-eds, Opinion

The Maine Millennial: Typos, dead fish make a minefield of online dating

by Victoria Hugo-Vidal February 7, 2021March 10, 2021

You can’t actually meet people during a pandemic, but virtual meeting places are not much better.

Arts & Entertainment, Review

The movie ‘Bliss’ is like rip-off of ‘The Matrix,’ only smarter (and a little less awesome)

by Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post February 7, 2021February 3, 2021

There’s powerful “The Matrix” energy (minus the Bullet Time) surrounding “Bliss,” a sci-fi flick in which a sad-sack divorced dad named Greg (Owen Wilson) suddenly learns that everything and almost everyone around him – his dead-end job in a dumpy town, his angry boss (Steve Zissis), his estranged teenage son (Jorge Lendeborg Jr.), the daughter […]

Arts & Entertainment

Miss visiting museums? Engaging with art on a tiny phone screen can actually be rewarding

by Kelsey Ables The Washington Post February 7, 2021February 3, 2021

Last week, you might say I visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Generous terms, of course, for what was actually just me waving my phone around in my apartment. With “The Met Unframed,” online through Feb. 15, you can “visit” four exhibitions and the Great Hall, and interact with 46 works from the New York […]