The PSO’s first full-time conductor died Feb. 14, just 5 days before his 100th birthday.
Life & Culture
Stories about life, culture, entertainment and arts from the Portland Press Herald.
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Waterville’s former Railroad Square Cinema to house acting playhouse, cultural events center
Randy and Lisa Jones of Augusta bought the former Railroad Square Cinema complex, which they have renamed The Playhouse at Waterville Station. Their long-term goal is to make it a center for the arts and artisans.
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Portland String Quartet plays ‘Music at the J’ show in Portland Sunday
Titled “PSQ III” to mark the quartet’s third concert of the season, the program featured works by an interesting variety of composers, past and present.
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Indie Film: Doc appointment: Cabin Fever festival offers wintertime oasis for nonfiction film fans
On Saturday, the Camden International Film Festival is holding a single-day event that celebrates documentary storytelling.
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Live Music Lineup: Jud Caswell, Portland Symphony Orchestra and Noun
Several genres of music can be heard in Brunswick and Portland.
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Band of Bowdoin College students is playing to the tune of Edward Hopper paintings
Night Hawk just released its first EP inspired by the famous American realist painter and plans to go on tour in the spring.
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Face the Music: Portland rock trio Rigometrics hits the road for fast-paced tour
After a few weeks playing out-of-state gigs, the band has some big shows lined up in Maine.
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Got Tix: Where to find concert tickets to upcoming shows
See Brazilian folk rock songwriter Rodrigo Amarante at Space on March 16.
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George Santos sues late-night host Jimmy Kimmel for tricking him into making videos to ridicule him
Kimmel misrepresented himself to induce Santos to create personalized videos “capitalizing on and ridiculing” his “gregarious personality,” the lawsuit alleges.
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Bestsellers: ‘North Woods,’ ‘Maine: A Love Story’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.