Mainer Penny Guisinger’s new memoir, ‘Shift: A Memoir of Identity and Other Illusions,’ is ‘searching, forthright and witty’ – and important.
Arts & Entertainment
Arts and entertainment news from the Portland Press Herald.
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Linda Bean collection, including 20 Wyeth paintings, fetches $2.5 million at auction
The artworks owned by the late granddaughter of L.L.Bean’s founder were valued at more than $3 million and were part of a larger auction, American Art, by Bonhams in New York.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Maine, Music, Review
A rousing chorus and the mighty Kotzschmar make the case for opera
The organ accompanied the ChoralArt Masterworks chorus in performing some of opera’s greatest hits. It made for a satisfying, uplifting Sunday afternoon.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This
Folk musicians (including Melissa Ferrick) to converge on Portland for conference
One Longfellow Square hosts several shows featuring the folk musicians over the weekend.
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Tickets on sale for Joy Clark on Nov. 22, Mallett Brothers Band on Dec. 7
Clark will be playing songs from her debut album ‘Tell it to the Wind’ in Rockland on Friday.
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Hear a quartet play the music of Adele and Coldplay by candlelight in Portland
The shows are at the Unitarian Universalist Church on Congress Street on Saturday.
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A Westbrook trivia host on how he writes questions and who you need on your team
Nate Parent, one of the founders of Best Worst Trivia, aced our five questions.
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Bummed about the election? These movies might help
Watching Nazi fighters on screen could provide some comfort.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Bestsellers: ‘The God of the Woods,’ ‘Patriot’
The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books from Nonesuch Books & More.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Sports
Jake Paul beats 58-year-old Mike Tyson, but the hits don’t match the hype
Even fewer, shorter rounds, along with heavier gloves, couldn’t do much to generate action between the 27-year-old YouTuber-turned-boxer and the former heavyweight champion more than 3 decades his senior.