The state will begin reducing MaineCare reimbursements to small rural hospitals and withhold reimbursements for larger claims on Wednesday if lawmakers do not pass an emergency supplemental budget.
Life & Culture
Stories about life, culture, entertainment and arts from the Portland Press Herald.
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38% of LGBTQ+ youth in Maine have considered suicide, national report says
A new report on the well-being of LGBTQ+ people ages 13 to 24 shows high rates of suicidal ideation, depression and anxiety, and a negative effect from politics.
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Bestsellers: ‘Three Days in June,’ ‘How We Learn to Be Brave’
The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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Society Notebook: A Company of Girls presents its first runway fashion show
If you’ve seen an episode of “Project Runway” where the contestants visit a museum for inspiration, imagine that — except swap out the professional designers and judges for middle school girls designing and sewing for the first time and a roomful of supportive friends and family. That was the scene when a dozen young designers […]
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‘No Other Land’ won an Oscar without U.S. distribution. Now what?
A filmmaker behind the Israeli-Palestinian documentary about forced displacement in the West Bank said U.S. distributors’ reluctance is ‘completely political.’
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Who is the real Hank Azaria? For a while, even he didn’t know.
Azaria has made a career twisting his vocal cords into the voices of various ‘Simpsons’ characters. Now he’s twisting them in the shape of the Boss as the frontman of a Springsteen cover band.
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Tove Jansson’s ‘Sun City’ takes up a rare subject in fiction: Old age
Jansson’s novel, recently reissued, follows a group of residents at a retirement community in Florida.
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Portland actor who started in community theater is thriving on the small screen
Holly Hinchliffe began acting at Lyric Music Theater in South Portland, and has also performed in high-profile TV shows like ‘Chicago Fire,’ ‘Law & Order: SVU’ and ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.’
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In a powerful new book, a hero of the Civil Rights era tells her story to children
Claudette Colvin co-wrote the book, about bus boycotts and a case that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, with Portland writer Phillip Hoose.
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Sly Stone, Led Zeppelin and two rock docs that treat ‘genius’ very differently
In ‘Sly Lives!’ and ‘Becoming Led Zeppelin,’ the divergent expectations faced by White and Black musical artists become apparent.