Bars and cafes specifically for gaming – a fad elsewhere for more than a decade – are now opening here.
Life & Culture
Stories about life, culture, entertainment and arts from the Portland Press Herald.
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Live Music Lineup: Crys Matthews, a tribute to The Who and cosmic country
Daniel Donato plays Portland House of Music next week.
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Got Tix: Where to find concert tickets to upcoming shows
See vocalist, songwriter, composer and educator Martha Redbone perform in Portland on Thursday.
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Indie Film: ‘Origin’ joins the ranks of monumental Black movies
Director Ava DuVernay’s latest film, based on Isabel Wilkerson’s 2020 book, is showing at the Portland Museum of Art through Sunday.
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Maine students give voice to ‘The Gaza Monologues’
Young actors from Casco Bay High School, Bowdoin College and the University of Southern Maine will present testimonies written in 2010 by teens who lived through war in Gaza. They said the words need to be heard now more than ever.
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George Carlin’s estate sues over AI comedy special
‘George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead,’ an hour-long video supposedly written, voiced and illustrated by an AI model trained on decades of Carlin’s comedy routines, constituted copyright infringement.
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Bestsellers: ‘North Woods,’ ‘Maine: A Love Story’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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Society Notebook: Portland chamber recognizes the people moving Maine forward
Propel’s Ignition Awards were given out Jan. 18 at DiMillo’s.
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Maine author weaves stories from 36 big-name writers into ‘Fourteen Days’
Douglas Preston took work contributed by Tess Gerritsen, John Grisham, Scott Turow, Margaret Atwood and many others to create a single story, set on the rooftop of a Manhattan tenement during the pandemic.
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Deep Water: ‘River Birch,’ by Susan Deborah King
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.