‘Cleavage,’ a follow-up to the transgender writer’s earlier memoir, tackles important questions with charm and humor.
Arts & Entertainment
Arts and entertainment news from the Portland Press Herald.
Auburn native wins Grammy for engineering Beyonce’s album
Colin Leonard, son of Auburn Manufacturing exec Kathie Leonard, is the master engineer Album of the Year, ‘Cowboy Carter.’
Max Garcia Conover and Heather Maloney play Portland shows
Both artists will be appearing at One Longfellow Square.
Check out the Portland Public Library’s 2025 reading challenge
The library will offer prizes this year to readers who complete the seasonal challenges.
Life on the commune took 50 years to make it onscreen
Filmmaker Charles Light shares his story of two of the most influential and successful 1960s-era New England collectives in ‘Far Out: Life On and After the Commune.’
Maine’s Amy Allen wins songwriter of the year Grammy
She was also nominated in three other categories: song of the year, album of the year and best song for visual media.
Amy Allen wins Songwriter of the Year at 2025 Grammys
Allen, who grew up in Windham and South Portland, was also nominated in the song, album and song for visual media categories.
Portland studio launches the ‘Netflix of Maine,’ a streaming platform for and about the state
StreamState will feature films, shows and workshops about Maine or by Maine producers, plus live Maine events.
What if you could mold the man of your dreams out of a blob?
In Maggie Su’s novel ‘Blob,’ a young woman transforms a gelatinous splotch into an object of affection, with mixed results.
Bestsellers: ‘Onyx Storm,’ ‘Wintering’
The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.