Greater Portland Landmarks will be holding a fundraiser, ‘Portland Unlocked,’ on Tuesday, featuring a presentation of 3D historical stereoview images of life in Maine.
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Maine Museum of Photographic Arts makes itself at home in new Portland space
The state’s only dedicated photography museum opened its new 1,500-square-foot space on Commercial Street this month, which will allow it to expand its photographic and educational offerings in the heart of the Old Port.
Creative Portland will hold first ‘Third Wednesday’ event today
The nonprofit’s first ‘Third Wednesday’ event, happening today from 4-7 pm, will include live music and other festivities.
Rockland exhibit combines iPhone and biology to create a world of color, geometry | Column
John Woodruff’s ‘Interiors/Exteriors (the nature of nature)’ is showing at Triangle Gallery through June 28.
Check out movies in Maine that aren’t your typical summer blockbuster
If you’ve already had your fill of blockbuster openings, it’s time to look for more hidden cinematic treasures.
‘Pen15’ co-creator confronts parental inheritance and estrangement in new memoir
In ‘The Sane One,’ New Englander Anna Konkle reflects on her father’s legacy, the ‘Pen15’ writers’ room and setting boundaries.
Portland Theater Festival’s 2026 season kicks off with ‘The Monsters’
The theater group, now in its 6th year, will also perform ‘Octet’ and Ibsen’s ‘An Enemy of the People.’
Writer returns to fictional Haven Point to meet pirates and misunderstood mothers
In ‘Liberty Island,’ Virginia Hume turns back the clock to investigate juvenile fiction and female ambition.
Read the poem ‘Food Shopping’ by Michele Pavitt
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
Lewiston’s ‘Singing Soldier’ gets golden advance on ‘America’s Got Talent’
Isaac Atkins, a Lewiston native on active duty in Hawaii, heads to Round 2 and a live performance in California in August.