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Life & Culture
Stories about life, culture, entertainment and arts from the Portland Press Herald.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Maine
Society Notebook: All-ages art show returns to Engine
An opening reception for ‘Rumpus’ was held on April 1 in Biddeford.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Best-Sellers: ‘The Paris Apartment,’ ‘Crying in H Mart’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
Art review: Indigo Arts residents put on community-minded multimedia exhibition
Work by the three artists is on display at Maine College of Art & Design’s Institute of Contemporary Art.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Deep Water: ‘New Foal,’ by Alice Persons
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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5 lessons from Obama’s national parks show on Netflix
“Our Great National Parks” shows, among other lessons, that nature can bounce back if given a chance.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Life & Culture
Egg-decorating tradition takes on deeper meaning for Maine artist with Ukrainian roots
For Lesia Sochor of Brooks, preserving the spring ritual of creating pysanky seems even more vital.
Posted inBooks, Review
Book review: For fans of ‘Veep,’ Grant Ginder’s new novel is just the thing
‘Let’s Not Do That Again’ is a political comedy of manners starring a Selina Meyer’s stand-in
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Book review: In sobering detail, Porter Fox describes the destruction wrought by climate change
Fox’s ‘The Last Winter’ traces wildfires, vanishing snow and our warming planet, with stops in Switzerland, Greenland and elsewhere. The news is grim.
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‘Father Stu’ biopic plays like an ad for Mark Wahlberg’s piety
A project privately financed by Wahlberg, this story of redemption is more clumsy than inspiring.