Making a point to streaming Maine-made movies and going out to local theaters more often are among the ways you could better support the local film scene this year.
Life & Culture
Stories about life, culture, entertainment and arts from the Portland Press Herald.
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Paula Abdul accuses ‘American Idol’ producer Nigel Lythgoe of sexual assault in lawsuit
The lawsuit filed Friday in Los Angeles also accuses Lythgoe of sexually assaulting Abdul after she left ‘American Idol’ and became a judge on Lythgoe’s other competition show ‘So You Think You Can Dance.’
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Deep Water: ‘What We Do Not See,’ by Martin Steingesser
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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Maine bookstores’ 2023 bestsellers, by category
The top-selling titles, in genres from memoir to science fiction, at Maine bookstores.
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These crime novelists have been writing what they know
Recent novels by Jaime Lynn Hendricks, Jesse Q. Sutanto and Val McDermid feature crime writing in their plots.
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Bestsellers: ‘The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store,’ ‘Maine: A Love Story’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books from Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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Writer Ann Beattie has ‘More to say’
In this book of essays, what the ‘prodigiously talented’ writer has to say is personal, revelatory and laser-precise.
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Society Notebook: Party-goers get jazzed up about One Longfellow Square
The fundraiser at The Cumberland Club will benefit the Portland music venue’s mentoring and emerging artist programs.
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What Mainers read in 2023
Maine authors and subjects were big sellers at the state’s indie bookstores this year, including recent releases ‘Big Heart, Little Stove’ by Lost Kitchen owner Erin French and ‘Maine: A Love Story” by artist Blue Butterfield.
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Mickey Mouse will soon belong to you and me – with some caveats
U.S. law allows copyright to be held for 95 years after Congress expanded it several times during Mickey’s life.