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Arts & Entertainment
Arts and entertainment news from the Portland Press Herald.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Bestsellers: ‘How to Read a Book,’ ‘The Demon of Unrest’
The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
Smaller shows at a trio of Maine galleries help usher in autumn
Hyperrealism in the gloaming, talk of trees and a sampling of sketches will lure you to Woolwich, Monson and Portland.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Maine
Society Notebook: Black Excellence Awards honors Mainers who are ‘filling in the gaps’
The Third Place gave out awards to leaders in politics, journalism, medicine, tourism and more.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Two decades in Afghanistan, written with the intimacy of a novel
‘Twenty Years: Hope, War and the Betrayal of an Afghan Generation,’ by Sune Engel Rasmussen, is told through the perspectives of ‘ordinary’ Afghans, looking outward from a broken country.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This, Maine, Review
‘Little Shop of Horrors’ brings off-the-wall spirit to Ogunquit
Latrice Royale steals the show as insatiable plant Audrey II.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World, Politics
Controversial Trump biopic ‘The Apprentice’ lands U.S. release date before Election Day
Donald Trump’s campaign has slammed the movie, but the director says ‘It’s time to make movies political again.’
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Election 2024, Nation & World, News
ABBA asks Trump to stop using their songs, but his team says they have the OK
The Swedish group joins a long list of performers who’ve objected to Trump using their songs, including most recently Celine Dion and Beyoncé.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World, News
Ofra Bikel, whose films freed the wrongly convicted, dies at 94
Documentaries she produced for PBS’s ‘Frontline’ series were credited with helping free 13 people, including 7 in a child sex abuse case in North Carolina.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Life & Culture, Nation & World
Dolly Parton is sending free books to children across 21 states – and around the world
The program has expanded statewide in places like Missouri and Kentucky, 2 of 21 states where all children under 5 can enroll to have books mailed to their homes monthly.