Indie rock and folk make it a tough choice for Saturday night shows.
Arts & Entertainment
Arts and entertainment news from the Portland Press Herald.
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What will Portland do about Live Nation’s proposed venue downtown?
One proposal announced Friday would block the developers of the Portland Music Hall from building on their chosen site.
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Gardens Aglow, a bright spot in Maine winter, returns with new displays and tech
Now in its 11th year, the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens’ signature holiday light show has a new emphasis on education — alongside its usual beauty.
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Meet the Maine cinematographer behind ‘Wicked: For Good,’ opening this week
Alice Brooks, who lives in Portland with her family, spent more than a year in England working on both ‘Wicked’ films.
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AI exposes architecture’s Achilles’ heel | Column
Good architecture is about accommodating commonplace movements and functions of the human body. Too few buildings clear that bar.
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Read ‘Flow into Girl,’ a poem by Lukcia Patricia Sullivan
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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‘Heart the Lover’ delivers a compelling, sensitive story about first love and its after effects
Lily King’s newest novel revisits key characters from an earlier work.
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‘Queen Esther’ isn’t a ‘Cider House Rules’ sequel, but it’s something
John Irving’s new novel about the son of a Jewish au pair is quite literally all over the place.
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Meet a Peaks Island artist and his ‘Wicked’ work
Douglas Smith illustrated the original ‘Wicked’ novel in 1995 and has done new art for a special edition timed to the release of the movie ‘Wicked: For Good.’
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Peer into the creative process with a tour of Falmouth artists’ studios
The Falmouth Open Studio Tour will run on Nov. 15 and feature 8 local artists in their home studios.