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Filmmaker’s ‘Eephus’ shows the complicated joys of playing America’s pastime

by Dennis Perkins March 21, 2025March 21, 2025

The debut film from director and co-writer Carson Lund understands the complicated joys that come from playing the game you love long past the time you should have given it up.

Arts & Entertainment, Do This, News

Jon Stewart tickets for Merrill Auditorium sell out in 3 hours

by Aimsel Ponti March 21, 2025March 21, 2025

The ‘Daily Show’ host, who is coming to Portland on June 21, continues to make frequent television appearances alongside his political advocacy.

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Life & Culture

Bestsellers: ‘The God of the Woods,’ ‘Anxious Generation’

March 21, 2025March 20, 2025

The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.

Arts & Entertainment, Life & Culture

Portland film group is devoted to preserving, sharing movie history

by Ray Routhier March 21, 2025March 20, 2025

The nonprofit organization Kinonik has collected some 1,800 movie film prints, showing many of them at its Cassidy Point screening room.

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Life & Culture

A new biography of New Yorker editor Katharine White is admiring and thorough

by Genanne Walsh March 21, 2025March 21, 2025

Over nearly 600 pages, Amy Reading argues that White deserves credit for the magazine’s high quality, and for making life easier to manage for her husband E.B. White.

Arts & Entertainment, Life & Culture

‘Rocky Horror’ doc underscores heightened relevancy of a cult classic

by Jada Yuan Washington Post March 21, 2025March 20, 2025

‘Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror,’ a new documentary by the son of ‘Rocky Horror’ creator Richard O’Brien, highlights the film’s enduring fandom.

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Life & Culture

‘The Paris Express’ is a riveting mix of social commentary and mystery

by Leigh Haber Special to The Washington Post March 21, 2025March 20, 2025

Emma Donoghue’s historical novel was inspired by a train crash in late 19th-century France.

Arts & Entertainment, Life & Culture

Society Notebook: Women United Around the World gala for Maine Stitching Academy

by Amy Paradysz March 21, 2025March 20, 2025

Forty models and dancers representing 30 countries from around the world celebrated the vibrant ethnic and cultural diversity of Maine women March 8 at the Italian Heritage Center in Portland. The 200-person gala, organized by local nonprofit Women United Around the World, raised $25,000 for Maine Stitching Academy’s nine-month tuition-free professional sewing program for immigrant […]