Patricia Crawford Brown, who had a career in food writing and a passion for music education, died in May.
Arts & Entertainment
Arts and entertainment news from the Portland Press Herald.
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Video game performers protest unregulated AI use at Warner Bros. Studios
The protest marks the first large labor action since game voice actors and performance workers voted to strike last week.
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‘American Idol’ adds Carrie Underwood to its panel of judges, replacing Katy Perry
Despite fans’ mixed reception, Perry said in February that she’s open to returning to ‘American Idol’ after her new creative chapter.
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Cardi B files for divorce from Offset, posts she’s pregnant with their third child on Instagram
The hip-hop power couple were secretly wed on Sept. 20, 2017, in Atlanta.
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Read poems by Portland’s 2 new poet laureates
‘Love Letter to my ancestors,’ by Yashu Derisala and ‘STONECALL,’ by Signature MiMi.
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Portland names its next poet laureate and introduces a new youth role
There will be an inauguration ceremony in September for Michelle ‘Signature MiMi’ Tarshus, the city’s eighth poet laureate, and Yashaswini (Yashu) Derisala, its first youth poet laureate.
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Julia Gagnon’s birth mother, who helped inspire her ‘American Idol’ journey, has died
The Cumberland singer posted on Instagram Wednesday about the death of her birth mother, Sara Ramos.
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Deadpool and Wolverine assemble. The result is hilarious.
Marvel is sorry. Sorry about those confusing multiverse movies, sorry about the characters it’s hyped and abandoned, sorry that its parent company, Disney, gobbled up Twentieth Century Fox and the rights to the X-Men and, above all, sorry that the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s centerpiece, the self-serious Avengers franchise, suddenly seems as stale as your uncle’s […]
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A long weekend with John Lennon’s ‘lost weekend’ girlfriend, May Pang
Do you ever talk to Yoko? someone in the crowd asked. Did Paul and George ever call Ringo “Richie”? How did you meet John? May Pang is used to the questions. She has devoted much of her life to recounting her affair a half-century ago with John Lennon, a period he memorably described as “the […]
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French police investigating abuse targeting Olympic opening ceremony DJ over ‘Last Supper’ scene
DJ Barbara Butch says she’s received death threats, insults and harassing messages.