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Life & Culture
Stories about life, culture, entertainment and arts from the Portland Press Herald.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Bedside table: Will an intrepid cruise ship nurse foil a murder?
In ‘The Unsinkable Aly Brown, RN,’ a nurse crosses the Pacific and solves medical mysteries en route.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
Exhibits at Space, Speedwell harness the power of grids
A nylon sculpture of an iceberg and a map of daily walks around Baltimore are among the pieces on display at two Portland shows.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Maine
How Jeremy Frey changed the way the art world sees Wabanaki basketmaking
The Maine artist’s solo show at the Portland Museum of Art – the first of its kind – represents a new perception of the art form.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
‘The Heart in Winter’ is an exhilarating tale of lovers on the run
Kevin Barry’s novel is both an Irish-flavored western fraught with danger and brutality and a love story filled with caustic humor and pathos.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World, News
These Picassos prompted a gender war at an Australian gallery. Now the curator says she painted them
The paintings prompted international headlines when the gallery re-hung them in a women’s restroom to sidestep a legal ruling that said men could not be barred from viewing them.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World
Dr. Ruth Westheimer, America’s diminutive and pioneering sex therapist, dies
Her extensive knowledge and training, coupled with her humorous, nonjudgmental manner, catapulted her into the national spotlight.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Maine, Review
Fenix puts modern, Maine twists on ‘Love’s Labor’s Lost’
The free performances of the Shakespeare comedy in Deering Oaks park run through Aug. 3.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Election 2024, Nation & World, News
Late-night comics have long been relentless in skewering Donald Trump. Now it’s Joe Biden’s turn
Late-night comics may not have the television audience that they used to, but they arguably still have a disproportionate influence in the public discourse, Syracuse’s Robert Thompson, a scholar of TV and its history, says.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World, News
Alec Baldwin weeps in court as judge announces involuntary manslaughter case is dismissed midtrial
The judge dismissed the case with prejudice based on the misconduct of police and prosecutors over the withholding of evidence from the defense in the shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film ‘Rust.’