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Arts and entertainment news from the Portland Press Herald.
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‘Chronicle of A Fall’ showcases Bates College’s immersive media studio
The multimedia installation uses video projections and 3D mapping to depict the experience of immigrant workers in the cultural sector in the United States.
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‘Envision Resilience’ at Space asks viewers to consider humans’ role in climate change
The show, which runs through April 26, features works by seven Maine artists that ask us to contemplate the inevitable.
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Elton John, ‘Hamilton’ and more enter National Recording Registry
The Library of Congress’s 2025 selections also include works from Don Rickles, Miles Davis, Celine Dion and Amy Winehouse, plus the music for “Minecraft.”
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A marriage is tested in the isolation of an Arctic whaling station
In Cynthia Reeves’ tense ‘The Last Whaler,” a couple stranded in in Svalbard in the mid-1930s is haunted by their pasts.
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Three’s a crowd in the wistful ‘Ballad of Wallis Island’
Carey Mulligan plays one half of a musical duo in the British comedy.
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Bestsellers: ‘Sunrise on the Reaping,’ ‘Abundance’
The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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In Jennifer Haigh’s ‘Rabbit Moon,’ a family must find ways to carry on
In Haigh’s latest novel, a 22-year-old American woman living in Shanghai is the victim of a terrible accident.
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Mechanics’ Hall delights with a sold-out ‘Evening of Wonder’
When three years ago Mechanics’ Hall hit upon a unique format for an annual fundraiser — an “Evening of Wonder” with a variety of unexpected experiences — they set themselves up for the challenge of continuing to surprise their supporters year after year. I couldn’t imagine how last year’s highly interactive “Cabinet of Wonder” could […]
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Deep Water: ‘Postcard from Rockland,’ by Sara Lynn Eastler
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.