The MTV Video Music Awards returned Wednesday night with a whole lot of Taylor Swift.
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Arts and entertainment news from the Portland Press Herald.
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Taylor Swift endorses Kamala Harris for president after debate ends
Taylor Swift, calling herself a ‘childless cat lady,’ endorsed Kamala Harris for president shortly after the debate ended on Tuesday night.
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Elizabeth Strout’s ‘Tell Me Everything’ is Oprah’s Book Club pick
The novel marks the first time that 3 of Strout’s most beloved characters – Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge and Bob Burgess – fully interact with each other in the fictional coastal Maine town of Crosby.
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James Earl Jones, acclaimed actor and voice of Darth Vader, dies at 93
The pioneering Jones won 2 Emmys, a Golden Globe, 2 Tony Awards, a Grammy and many other awards for iconic roles ranging from ‘Star Wars’ to ‘Field of Dreams.’
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Twenty years in, Camden film festival keeps getting more competitive
The festival, which starts Thursday, received more than 2,000 submissions for about 50 spots.
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Tickets on sale for Post Malone on Sept. 16, The Mallett Brothers Band on Dec. 7
Post Malone released the album ‘F-1 Trillion’ on Aug. 16. He’ll be performing songs from it at Maine Savings Amphitheater.
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Hear all your favorite yacht rock hits at Aura on Friday
The Portland Yacht Rock Festival will feature soft-rock songs of the ’70s and ’80s.
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Porchfest brings music to front lawns of Deering Center for 10th year
More than 50 neighborhood residents opened their homes as temporary stages for 67 musical acts.
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Cowabunga! Dover celebrates being birthplace of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
It wasn’t the New York City sewers, where the Turtles mutated from regular reptiles into a crime-fighting quartet who battled foes with nunchucks, snark and pizza. Rather, it was a small city near the New Hampshire coast.
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Bass guitarist Herbie Flowers, who played with legends like David Bowie and Lou Reed, dies at 86
Flowers was a founding member of the pop group Blue Mink, who later joined the rock band T Rex.