Scarborough resident Travis Kennedy’s debut novel is terrific fun from first page to last.
Arts & Entertainment
Arts and entertainment news from the Portland Press Herald.
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Bestsellers: ‘Heart the Lover’ and ‘Nations Apart’ top local lists
Here are the week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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Read the poem ‘On Finding an Abandoned Well,’ by Peter Beckford
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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12 new Maine children’s books for your holiday list
New releases came out this year from Maine authors and illustrators Chris Van Dusen, Peter Brown, X. Fang, Phuc Tran, Elisa Boxer and Daniel Minter, among others.
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11 places to buy affordable art for the holidays
When we love a piece of art, it offers us joy, succor and a little healthy escapism.
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Portland panel debates code changes that could make or break Live Nation venue
A city committee is studying 2 proposals that grew out of an outcry against the proposed Portland Music Hall.
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Maine Museum of Photographic Arts moving to Portland’s Commercial Street
The nonprofit needs to raise $130,000 for renovations in the next 90 days.
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Albany sixth grader dances into her first Nutcracker
Lily Burrill, 11, will perform in Portland this holiday season in Maine State Ballet’s “Nutcracker.”
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Historical photos show Maine’s Thanksgiving generosity
Mainers have been helping each other with food donations in tough times for decades.
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7 Maine events this week include a Taylor Swift tribute and a craft fair for geeks
Also, see the Soweto Gospel Choir in Portland.