As its title, ‘Life and Art’ suggests, and with humor and intelligence, the essays span culture, personal history, politics and family.
Arts & Entertainment
Arts and entertainment news from the Portland Press Herald.
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‘The Doorman’ and ‘The Let Them Theory’ top bestseller lists in Southern Maine
Here are the week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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South Portland’s Spring Point Ledge Light is a little world built for living
The lighthouse, dating to 1897, is a concrete and tidy illustration of the adage ‘form follows function.’
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Imagination Ball gives Children’s Museum a financial and emotional boost
Having covered nonprofit fundraisers weekly for the past 13 years, I have seen hundreds of auctions where ordinary people raise their hands — and their bid numbers — to protect the organizations and initiatives that matter to them. Never is that impulse stronger than when they feel that something they love, like the Children’s Museum […]
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‘Circular Motion,’ a debut both wildly imaginative and deeply emotional
Alex Foster’s first novel is about a futuristic high-speed travel system with troubling global consequences.
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Deep Water: ‘A Chaucerian Scholar,’ by Edward J. Rielly
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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Action-packed ‘Fountain of Youth’ has everything — except a soul
An Apple Original starring John Krasinski and Natalie Portman plays like ‘Romancing the National Da Vinci Treasure Ark.’
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Artists use midnight performance to draw attention to rising seas
A group of painters, dancers and sculptors gathered on the Portland waterfront in the middle of the night as an unusually high tide flooded parking lots and piers.
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New storytelling events in Maine let people share, Moth-style
Monthly storytelling series are being held at venues in Portland and Lewiston, and other storytelling events have been held recently focused on health care, parenting, immigrant life and food.
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See these 4 storytelling events in Portland, Lewiston and Damariscotta
Here are some upcoming storytelling events and series around Maine: June 5: Stories Told Live, 7:15 p.m. at Blue Portland Maine, 650 A Congress St., Portland. $20. Six local people telling stories on stage. The shows are usually held the first Thursday of the month. Blueportlandmaine.org. June 5: The Corner, 7 p.m. at L/A Arts, […]