Jason Singer, a former Press Herald reporter and editor, won Tuesday’s episode of the ABC game show. His wife, Susan McMillan, is a past winner too.
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Arts and entertainment news from the Portland Press Herald.
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The 10 movies you shouldn’t miss at the Maine International Film Festival
Now in its 28th year, the Maine International Film Festival in Waterville will include a wide variety of feature films, shorts, restored classics and international movies.
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Check out photos of Maine kids celebrating with fireworks in the 1930s and ’40s
These days it’s illegal to purchase and use fireworks in many Maine municipalities, but things were very different 80 years ago.
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Maine journalist could join wife as winner of ‘Jeopardy!’
Jason Singer, a former reporter and editor at the Portland Press Herald, will appear on the famed trivia show Tuesday. His wife won in 2021.
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Netflix series to be based on Maine author’s Waterville-set novel
Ron Currie’s ‘The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne’ came out earlier this year and focuses on a female Franco-American crime boss.
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Portland’s Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church goes beyond baklava for its annual festival
The 41st annual Greek Festival is happening this weekend. How does a city church bring the music, flavors and culture of Greece to downtown Portland?
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Woolwich gallery exhibition chronicles artist’s gender transition
James Parker Foley’s second solo exhibition at Sarah Bouchard Gallery opens July 5.
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This book about shepherding had me at baa
‘The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life’ by Helen Whybrow beautifully explores interconnectedness and disruption in nature.
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The New Yorker’s fact-checking started with a testy letter from a Maine poet’s mother
The magazine, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year, traces its famously rigorous process to a 1927 letter from Edna St. Vincent Millay’s mother, pointing out several errors in a story about her daughter.
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With its architecture memo, the executive branch weighs in on what’s beautiful | Column
The current administration has sworn allegiance to ‘classical architectural heritage.’