A 30-minute documentary about the community radio station is screening next week at Space.
Life & Culture
Stories about life, culture, entertainment and arts from the Portland Press Herald.
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Best-Sellers: ‘Lucy By the Sea,’ ‘The Light We Carry’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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An old, monied family unravels in Anne Whitney Pierce’s latest novel
Set during the turbulent 1960s and early ’70s, ‘Down to the River’ beautifully depicts the dwindling of a family fortune, brothers drinking to excess, and inseparable cousins leaving childhood behind.
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Bedside table: A happy discovery
Book recommendations from readers.
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Society Notebook: Prohibition-themed New Year’s party a nod to club’s history
The Portland Club was founded by the son of Neal Dow, who led the charge for a statewide ban on alcohol in the 1850s.
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On closer look, Kathy Butterly’s ceramics as masterful as they are cheerful
Take your time with them in her exhibition at the Portland Museum of Art.
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Deep Water: ‘Winter Kale,’ by Jodi Paloni
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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The spirit of E.M. Forster hangs over Tom Crewe’s ‘The New Life’
Crewe’s lyrical, piercing debut lends a contemporary urgency to an exploration of same-sex intimacy and social opprobrium.
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‘The Pale Blue Eye’ a 19th-century whodunit – with Edgar Allan Poe
Writer-director Scott Cooper may be as perfect an interpreter as can be imagined for Netflix’s pulpy yet high-minded adaptation of “The Pale Blue Eye,” a well-received 2003 whodunit by novelist Louis Bayard about a series of grisly 1830 murders investigated by a retired police detective and his young assistant, Edgar Allan Poe. Coming off 2021’s […]
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Decades-old abuse claims against Portland diocese, once blocked, pour in after state law change
More than a dozen people once barred by statutes of limitations are suing the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland.