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Life & Culture
Stories about life, culture, entertainment and arts from the Portland Press Herald.
The Judds, Ray Charles join the Country Music Hall of Fame
The loss of Naomi Judd altered the normally celebratory ceremony, but the music played on.
Superheroes, villains descend on Portland for first Maine Cosplay Extravaganza
Thompson’s Point welcomes a host of characters.
‘Bad Guys’ repeats at No. 1, Liam Neeson’s latest misfires
The latest Liam Neeson thriller suggested the actor’s particular set of skills may be wearing thin with audiences.
Art review: Natasha Mayers’ series of military torsos is satire lite
Zero Station’s ‘Tell It Slant’ features the activist artist’s War Chest paintings.
Maine Jewish Museum hopes to attract a wider audience, first with an Anne Frank opera
The Portland museum plans to collaborate with other cultural organizations to put on more events and programs, including the first production of Opera in the Pines.
HBO’s ‘We Own This City’ is not Season 6 of ‘The Wire’
A few detectives in the drug unit are sitting around chatting in the 2002 pilot of “The Wire,” when one offers his thoughts on the war on drugs: “You can’t even call this (expletive) a war. … Wars end.” That “war” still rages 20 years later, and its destruction is evident across the country – […]
Society Notebook: Women in coffee from around the world converge in Portland
Coffee By Design hosted members of the International Women’s Coffee Alliance last month.
A great Venice Biennale unfolds, against all the odds
VENICE — The Venice Biennale – art’s forever fraught answer to the Olympics – provides a precious opportunity to take the culture’s temperature and speculate on where things are headed. It’s where the art world announces new talent, revives becalmed careers and, just as often, submerges dreams of stardom in lagoons of indifference. This year’s […]
Bedside table: Walking is the best medicine
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