Rockland Public Library will host a discussion with Jennifer Lunden, author of the 2025 Read ME nonfiction selection “American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation, My Body’s Revolt, and the Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life,” at 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 2. Lunden will explore the history of medicine and the effects of the industrial […]
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Arts and entertainment news from the Portland Press Herald.
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United Way of Midcoast Maine kicks off annual fall fundraiser
United Way of Mid Coast Maine is kicking off its annual fundraising campaign this week with a goal to raise over $1.29 million. The campaign will help 41,000 people across the Midcoast and support United Way, its funded partners and almost 50 local programs and initiatives achieve their collective missions to give kids the best […]
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Woolwich gallery highlights the art of stitching in new exhibition
Sarah Bouchard Gallery presents “Every Infinitesimal Thought,” co-curated with gallery artist Kate Russo, from Sept. 27 through Nov. 2. This exhibition brings together the work of four female artists devoted to the relationships between thread and color, stitching and abstraction. It includes stitched works on paper, photographs and canvas by Cecelia Charlton, Julie Cockburn, Kate […]
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A spider who is mistaken for a kitten learns it’s A-OK to be yourself
‘Luigi, the Spider Who Wanted to Be a Kitten’ is charmingly illustrated by Gorham artist Kevin Hawkes.
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Read ‘This Cathedral,’ a poem by Michelle Menting
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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Bestsellers: ‘Heart the Lover’ and ‘Good Things’
Here are the week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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New romcom ‘The Threesome’ comes from a Maine writer who works on ‘The Simpsons’
Bowdoinham native Ethan Ogilby worked in TV and film production, on ‘The Simpsons’ and on Netflix documentaries, before getting his screenplay filmed.
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Two art shows in Portland, Falmouth offer contrasts between AI and nature
A show by Brian Smith at Moss Galleries delves into ‘queer ecology,’ while Roopa Vasudevan at Space demonstrates the limits of AI.
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Cardi B is ready to reclaim her crown as icon, legend, mean girl
On ‘Am I the Drama?,’ her first album in more than seven years, the Bronx-born rapper turns haters into motivators.
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‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ returns. Here’s where to watch his show in Maine.
Maine’s 2 ABC affiliates, WMTW in Portland and WVII in Bangor, said they will air the show Tuesday night.