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Life & Culture
Stories about life, culture, entertainment and arts from the Portland Press Herald.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Best-Sellers: ‘Big Truck Little Island,’ ‘Breaking Bread’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Read an excerpt from Morgan Talty’s ‘Night of the Living Rez’
The Levant author’s first book, a collection of short stories, comes out July 8.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
Watching ‘Elvis’ feels like being in a washing machine for 2 ½ hours
The best way to appreciate “Elvis,” Baz Luhrmann’s audacious, frenetic, occasionally astonishing and ultimately confounding movie about Elvis Presley, is simply to surrender to it. Luhrmann, best known for such kaleidoscopic fantasias as “Romeo and Juliet” and “Moulin Rouge!,” possesses just enough hubris to believe himself capable of re-creating the lightning that Elvis Presley embodied, […]
Posted inNation & World, Religion and Values
Pope celebrates families at big Vatican rally
He believes a ‘culture of waste’ is behind the societal acceptance of abortion.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Mishael Morgan is first Black lead winner at Daytime Emmys
The 35-year-old from Trinidad and Tobago plays Amanda Sinclair on the CBS soap ‘The Young and the Restless.’
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World, Politics
Gabby Giffords documentary comes as gun debates stay center stage
The film ‘Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down’ is partly an intimate look at Giffords’ recovery after the January 2011 shooting that left 6 people dead and 13 others wounded outside a Tucson supermarket.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Business, Nation & World
Manufacturers struggle to keep pace with vinyl record demand
Demand for vinyl records has been growing in double-digits for more than a decade.
Posted inNation & World, Religion and Values
From joy to anger, faith leaders react to Roe’s reversal
Reactions from America’s faith leaders ranged from elation to anger after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that made abortion legal nationwide.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World
James Rado, co-creator of Broadway sensation ‘Hair,’ dies at 90
The groundbreaking rock musical capitalized on the emerging hippie culture of the 1960s.