Life & Culture - Portland Press Herald

Arts & Entertainment, Books

Best-Sellers: ‘The Furies,’ ‘I’m Glad My Mom Died’

October 30, 2022October 24, 2022

The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.

Right wing casts drag art form in false light

by JEFF McMILLAN Associated Press October 29, 2022

The portrayal as sexual and harmful to children can obscure its rich history.

Arts & Entertainment, Maine

Concert review: Obomsawin finds artistic home in tradition dating back to avant-garde experiments

by Steve Feeney October 29, 2022October 29, 2022

The concert was not without its more consonant moments, as when the horns harmonized around mournful/melancholy musical suggestions of what was and what might have been.

Arts & Entertainment, Nation & World, News

Jerry Lee Lewis, outrageous rock ‘n’ roll star, dies at 87

by HILLEL ITALIE Associated Press October 28, 2022October 28, 2022

The last survivor of a generation of groundbreaking performers that included Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and Little Richard.

Books, Food, Recipes

Bloody good: Stephen King-themed cookbook blends delicious, dreary into fearsome froth

by Tim Cebula October 28, 2022October 29, 2022

In ‘Castle Rock Kitchen,’ released this month by Ten Speed Press, a cookbook author from New Brunswick and a Maine photographer let their creative juices splatter.