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Arts & Entertainment
Arts and entertainment news from the Portland Press Herald.
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Live at Madrid’s opens with Gina & The Red Eye Flight Crew
Portland’s newest music venue debuts with a sold-out show.
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5 Maine events include ‘Whit’s End’ play and World Oddities Expo
And see the latest choreography from Portland Ballet in Westbrook.
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Pull yourself out of Maine’s mud season with Classical Uprising’s joyous ‘Mudfest’ events
There are sing-alongs, dance parties and musical chairs to help you break through a gray time of year.
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Historical photos trace Maine’s love of maple syrup
Maine Maple Sunday Weekend is coming up, and dozens of sugar houses across the state are participating.
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Mainer wins second Oscar for ‘Avatar’ visual effects
Eric Saindon, who grew up in Gorham, won for his work on ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash.’ A film about Maine-born poet Andrea Gibson also was up for an Oscar Sunday, but did not win.
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New exhibits bring diversity, fresh views to Colby College, Portland art spaces
‘Mawte: Bound Together’ at Colby Museum offers an exhibit entirely from Indigenous perspectives, while ‘Polyphony’ brings together works from 20 artists at Cove Street Arts.
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The best of Maine movies this week include a sexy biker flick, Bogart and Oscar nominees
Films to catch from Portland to Rockland and points in between.
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The Portland Museum of Art’s new head of art and exhibitions is a familiar face
Andrew Eschelbacher, who was an assistant and associate curator at the PMA almost a decade ago, has returned to an institution in transition.
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Brunswick actor’s Maine-set mockumentary delves into the art of freestyle canoeing
‘Canoe Dig It?’, a mockumentary about a freestyle canoeing competition in northern Maine, will be shown at theaters from Portland to Orono this spring.