You can also make plans to head to Monmouth in April to see the musical ‘Ride the Cyclone.’
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Arts and entertainment news from the Portland Press Herald.
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Yarmouth filmmaker talks about Portland radio documentary
Tom Bell’s award-winning film “An Extraordinary Place,” will screen on April 1 at the University of Southern Maine.
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Filmmaker’s ‘Eephus’ shows the complicated joys of playing America’s pastime
The debut film from director and co-writer Carson Lund understands the complicated joys that come from playing the game you love long past the time you should have given it up.
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Jon Stewart tickets for Merrill Auditorium sell out in 3 hours
The ‘Daily Show’ host, who is coming to Portland on June 21, continues to make frequent television appearances alongside his political advocacy.
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Bestsellers: ‘The God of the Woods,’ ‘Anxious Generation’
The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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Portland film group is devoted to preserving, sharing movie history
The nonprofit organization Kinonik has collected some 1,800 movie film prints, showing many of them at its Cassidy Point screening room.
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A new biography of New Yorker editor Katharine White is admiring and thorough
Over nearly 600 pages, Amy Reading argues that White deserves credit for the magazine’s high quality, and for making life easier to manage for her husband E.B. White.
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‘Rocky Horror’ doc underscores heightened relevancy of a cult classic
‘Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror,’ a new documentary by the son of ‘Rocky Horror’ creator Richard O’Brien, highlights the film’s enduring fandom.
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‘The Paris Express’ is a riveting mix of social commentary and mystery
Emma Donoghue’s historical novel was inspired by a train crash in late 19th-century France.
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Society Notebook: Women United Around the World gala for Maine Stitching Academy
Forty models and dancers representing 30 countries from around the world celebrated the vibrant ethnic and cultural diversity of Maine women March 8 at the Italian Heritage Center in Portland. The 200-person gala, organized by local nonprofit Women United Around the World, raised $25,000 for Maine Stitching Academy’s nine-month tuition-free professional sewing program for immigrant […]