After years of living in big cities and creating stories set in wilderness, the best-selling author of the ‘Wild Robot’ series moved to the Midcoast last year.
Life & Culture
Stories about life, culture, entertainment and arts from the Portland Press Herald.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
‘Anatomy of a Fall’ is a twisty and icily cerebral thriller
Sandra Hüller delivers a naturalistic tour de force of spiky confidence and lurking maternal guilt in this whodunit/marital drama.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
‘Making Maine’ gives a decidedly unsentimental picture of the nascent state
Scoundrels, smugglers and their ilk helped to make Maine, according to a new history of the War of 1812.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Off the Shelf: ‘The Berry Pickers’
Amanda Peters will discuss her new novel, “The Berry Pickers,” with Gregory Brown, author of “The Lowering Days” on Friday at Mechanics Hall in Portland. A young Mi’kmaq girl named Ruthie arrives in Maine with her family from Nova Scotia to pick blueberries for the summer. One day, the little girl suddenly vanishes. The event […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World, News
‘Friends’ star Matthew Perry found dead at his Los Angeles home, reports say
The Emmy-nominated actor was found dead of an apparent drowning Saturday. He was 54.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine, Religion and Values
Healing in hope: Local clergy turn to their faith to help lead grieving community out of darkness
In wake of 18 murders, faith leaders have opened their churches and hearts to victims, families, communities making their way through immense tragedy.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Richard Moll, who found fame as a bailiff on ‘Night Court,’ dies at 80
Moll played ‘Bull’ Shannon on NBC’s ‘Night Court’ from 1984 to 1992 alongside stars Harry Anderson and John Larroquette.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
From country to pop, 2014 nostalgia to 2023 reality – it’s time for Taylor Swift’s ‘1989’
Taylor Swift’s reimagined ‘1989’ is here, the album that ushered in the first Peak Swift era – now revisited at the height of her massive pop culture dominance
Posted inArts & Entertainment
The last new Beatles song, ‘Now And Then,’ will be released next week
‘Now And Then’ comes from the same batch of unreleased demos written by John Lennon and worked on by his former bandmates in the 1990s.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World, News
Trial date set as Jonathan Majors loses bid to dismiss assault case
If convicted, Majors could face up to a year in jail. His legal team has maintained that the actor is not only innocent but was also assaulted by Jabbari during the back-seat dispute.
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