The Suitcase Junket performs at Vinegar Hill Music Theatre this week.
Life & Culture
Stories about life, culture, entertainment and arts from the Portland Press Herald.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This
Sit in on these upcoming songwriter nights, from Freeport to Searsport
See several artists perform in one show, sometimes together, including on Sunday at Cadenza.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Maine
Cumberland singer Julia Gagnon advances to top 12 on ‘American Idol’
On the strength of a Whitney Houston song, Gagnon inches one step closer to making the top 10.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World
Oregon lodge famously featured in ‘The Shining’ will reopen to guests after fire forced evacuations
Embers from the lodge’s large stone fireplace apparently ignited the roof Thursday night.
Posted inLife & Culture, Maine, News
Waterville community mural project inspires hope on Earth Day
The mural, titled ‘How Humanity Managed To Save the Planet,’ was developed by high school students working with a local artist and completed Sunday by community members.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
‘Tumbledown’ filmmaking couple’s latest baby is a play about fertility struggles
Set in Portland, ‘Childish’ was written by Desi Van Til and will be directed by her husband, Sean Mewshaw. It opens May 8 at Space.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Bedside table: As the presidential election looms, ‘A memoir and a Warning’
Book recommendations from readers.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Deep Water: ‘What you do,’ by Kerem Durdag
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Maine
Society Notebook: Dentists brush up on dance moves for competition
Dancing with the Dentists raised money for Maine Resiliency Center, Veggies to Table, The Root Cellar and Mainely Teeth.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
New novel set in rural Maine explores the dark corners of a treatment center for troubled teens
In Martha Tod Dudman’s ‘Sunrise and the Real World,’ the line between resident and professional is often razor-thin.