In July 2021, the state removed a 34-year statute of limitations for civil claims of childhood sexual abuse.
Life & Culture
Stories about life, culture, entertainment and arts from the Portland Press Herald.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This
Got Tix: Where to find concert tickets to upcoming shows
There are still plenty of seats left to see Australian guitar legend Tommy Emmanuel.
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Posted inAnimals, Nation & World, News
Giant tortoise believed extinct confirmed alive in the Galapagos Islands
Researchers this week confirmed that a rare tortoise discovered in 2019 is part of a long-considered-extinct species, the fantastic giant tortoise – ‘with a current known population size of a single individual.’
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Maine
Portland’s July 4 fireworks will boom, but without musical accompaniment
A city staffing shortage led to the decision to keep the celebration scaled back, meaning the Portland Symphony Orchestra will not perform.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
Amid anti-Asian discrimination, ‘Fire Island’ makers found queer joy
Pride Month kicked off this year with the debut of a romantic comedy that already feels like an instant classic. An update of “Pride and Prejudice” set off the coast of New York, “Fire Island” swaps out the courtship games of the 19th-century English gentry for the often just-as-ritualized search for love among gay men […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Maine
DaPonte String Quartet rehired, and board members replaced
Attorneys helped the musicians reach an agreement in which the board members who fired the musicians last month have stepped down and been replaced by a new board.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Members of Queen, Police, Rush will honor Taylor Hawkins
The shows will take place Sept. 3 at London’s Wembley Stadium and Sept. 27 at The Kia Forum in Inglewood, Calif.
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Dolly Parton gives $1 million to infectious disease research, again
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Dolly Parton is donating $1 million to pediatric infectious disease research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, the organization announced on Wednesday. The new gift is one of several Parton has made to the center over the years, including a $1 million gift in April 2020 for COVID vaccine research. That […]
Posted inNation & World, News, Religion and Values
Southern Baptists vote on sex abuse proposals, debate female pastor
Members of the Southern Baptist Convention passed a recommendation to create a database to track sex abusers and a formal group to handle sex abuse accusations going forward.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Heard says she’ll stand by abuse allegations against Depp ‘to my dying day’
A Virginia jury sided with him and agreed she defamed him.