Apple picking season is here, and orchards statewide grow many varieties.
Arts & Entertainment
Arts and entertainment news from the Portland Press Herald.
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6 Maine events this week include Maine Open Lighthouse Day
There’s also the Cole Porter musical ‘Anything Goes’ in South Portland, a music festival in New Gloucester and the Farmington Fair.
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Rain dampens weekend plans, but not drought
Most of the state received about an inch of rainfall, enough to cancel or delay events, but not nearly enough to impact the severe drought.
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Demo begins at the former Children’s Museum and Theatre of Maine
The Portland Museum of Art started tearing down the building at 142 Free St. this week.
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Westbrook’s Vertical Harvest is an architectural response to food insecurity | Column
Vertical Harvest’s growing facility has an urban footprint of just one-half of an acre, but can produce a yield equivalent to 250 rural acres of the same crop.
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Brunswick’s Maine State Music Theatre brings Broadway to Portland’s waterfront
The event raised $155,000 to support MSMT’s ongoing mission to enrich lives through musical theater.
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Three bright, complicated sisters want their mother’s attention
In his moving family saga, in ‘The Frequency of Living Things,’ Nick Fuller Googins captures the complexities of sisterhood and the human heart.
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Bestsellers: ‘Katabasis’ and ‘Coming up Short’ top local lists
Here are the week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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Deep Water: ‘Grief,’ by Stuart Kestenbaum
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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Hot Dog Safari event comes to Portland
The day-long wiener crawl benefits The Locker Project.