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Life & Culture
Stories about life, culture, entertainment and arts from the Portland Press Herald.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Maine
Maine sculptors open their studios, offering an intimate look at their process
Curator and art dealer June LaCombe, known for hosting exhibits at her Pownal property, is now organizing tours of artists’ studios instead.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Maine
Music fills the air at ‘Deering Center Porchfest’
Dozens of bands perform from porches and yards around the Portland neighborhood.
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For Oprah Winfrey, ‘Sidney’ is an act of love for Poitier
The Oprah Winfrey-produced documentary has arrived eight months after the death of Sidney Poitier.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World
Marsha Hunt, ’40s star and blacklist victim, dies at 104
The actor worked with performers ranging from Laurence Olivier to Andy Griffith in a career disrupted for a time by the McCarthy-era blacklist.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Deep Water: ‘Staying Still On A Moving Sphere,’ by Ellen Sander
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
In a debut novel set on a fictional Maine island, an unusual boy comes of age
The orphaned ‘Faron Goss’ struggles to overcome his haunted childhood in a tight-knit lobstering community.
Posted inBooks, Food
‘Foodtopia’ and the fifth wave: Maine’s millennial farmers stand on the shoulders of their forebears
Maine author Margot Anne Kelley’s new book explores historic back-to-the-land movements and how they helped today’s young breakaway farmers succeed.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
Let’s turn the Farmer’s Almanac into something real – and useful
The perennial bestseller is now disconnected from its reason for being. It wants to evoke our affection for nature but shows little interest in human nature or science.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Maine
Society Notebook: Special Surfers catches wave of support
The nonprofit was this year’s beneficiary of Above Board’s annual charitable event.