Dakota Johnson plays a modern-day matchmaker in Celine Song’s bittersweet meditation on love and commerce.
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Arts and entertainment news from the Portland Press Herald.
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Actor Joe Manganiello credits Peaks Island with sparking his creativity
The ‘True Blood’ and ‘Magic Mike’ actor spent summers on the Casco Bay island growing up, giving him time and space to write and create characters.
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Here are 21 dad jokes to help you celebrate Maine fathers
What is a dad joke, anyway? Read the examples below, gathered with help from Maine dads and comics, just in time for Father’s Day.
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When do Mainers tell dad jokes? When they become apparent.
For Father’s Day, we talk to Maine dads, comics and others about what a dad joke is, why dads tell them and why we love to hate them.
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A mother pays tribute to the sons she lost
In her memoir ‘Things in Nature Merely Grow,’ Yiyun Li tries to honor the lives, and accept the unfathomable deaths, of her two sons.
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‘The Emperor of Gladness’ and ‘Abundance’ top bestseller lists locally
Here are the week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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Portland’s Washington Baths features the Brutalist splendor of experiential architecture | Column
Nudity, steam and an icy-bath plunge are the only respectable way to lay eyes on Portland’s newest slice of Brutalist architecture.
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A book of poems set in Old Orchard Beach moves from the specific to the transcendent
‘Old Orchard’s Palace’ is poet Robert Gibbons closely observed second book about the town he lives in.
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Deep Water: ‘i dream my gender a thousand shades of green,’ by Jude Marx
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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Maine author’s debut novel about the ’80s rock scene is set to become a film
‘The Whyte Python World Tour’ by Scarborough resident Travis Kennedy goes on sale June 24, and Paramount has already begun developing a movie based on it.