From an animated short about a social media-addicted pig to a Blue Hill-based horror film, there’s lots to see in Waterville.
Life & Culture
Stories about life, culture, entertainment and arts from the Portland Press Herald.
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Tickets on sale for July 19 shows from Joe Bonamassa in Bangor, Old Crow Medicine Show in Portland
See indie-folk quartet The Crane Wives at the State Theatre July 20.
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Topsham couple’s Bates Dance Festival performance is inspired by kabuki, punk rock and their 7-year-old
See Aretha Aoki and Ryan MacDonald’s ‘IzumonookunI’ in Lewiston this week.
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Jon Landau, Oscar-winning ‘Titanic’ and ‘Avatar’ producer, dies at 63
Landau’s partnership with director James Cameron led to three Oscar nominations and a best picture win for 1997’s ‘Titanic.’
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‘Despicable Me 4’ debuts with $122.6 million as boom times return to box office
Though overall ticket sales were down more than 40% from levels prior to the pandemic, heading into the summer moviegoing season, theaters have lately seen a succession of hits.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Bestsellers: ‘Pitch Dark,’ ‘The Demon of Unrest’
The week’s bestselling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Maine
Society Notebook: Maine-made fashion hits the runway
The Stitch fashion show and style market raised $3,000 for Maine Crafts Association programs.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
Gripped by a mysterious illness, a Mainer finds an unexpected kindred soul
In ‘American Breakdown,’ writer Jennifer Lunden spins twin tales of how the medical establishment dismissed her illness, and, some 100 years earlier, that of Alice James, the sister of Henry James.
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Deep Water: ‘No One Taught Us Lifelong Love,’ by Kate Kearns
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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Moxie Festival to return with a performance by ‘American Idol’ sensation Julia Gagnon and the longest Moxie Day Parade ever
The festival will be held July 12-14 and will feature a Moxie recipe contest, a Moxie chugging contest, a car show, a whoopie pie eating contest and more.