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Jackson Browne tribute has a Maine contribution, and Crystal Marie is ready to be Chappell Roan

by Aimsel Ponti January 20, 2025January 24, 2025

Cam Jones, under the name Yes We Kin, contributed his cover of Jackson Browne’s ‘The Pretender.’

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Battling winter blues? Try a night at the theater

by Megan Gray January 20, 2025January 19, 2025

These plays and musicals will get you out of the house even on a freezing night.

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Audio drama company makes Maine sound scar(ier), even without a camera

by Dennis Perkins January 20, 2025January 19, 2025

Fred Greenhalgh’s Dagaz Media creates acclaimed, Maine-based audio tales of terror that go bump in your imagination.

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Bestsellers: ‘The God of the Woods,’ ‘Wintering’

January 19, 2025January 14, 2025

The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.

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‘How to Sleep at Night’ comically captures the pain of running for office

by Susan Coll Special to The Washington Post January 19, 2025January 14, 2025

The debut novel by Elizabeth Harris is a political book charming enough to appeal to readers burned out by politics.

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Art exhibition shines a light on the beauty of Maine’s night sky

by Megan Gray January 17, 2025January 15, 2025

The show is a collaboration between Waterfall Arts in Belfast, the Union of Maine Visual Artists and Dark Sky Maine.

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In Bowdoin exhibit, artists make familiar Monhegan new again

by Jorge S. Arango January 17, 2025March 11, 2025

At Bowdoin College Museum of Art, the exhibition “Art, Ecology, and the Resilience of a Maine Island: The Monhegan Wildlands” (through June 21) takes a novel approach to a familiar subject: the speck of land 10 miles off the mainland that has been an artist colony since the 19th century. This is not your usual […]