Some musicians say the challenges they’ve faced over the past two years have made them better artists.
Life & Culture
Stories about life, culture, entertainment and arts from the Portland Press Herald.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Business
‘Batman’ soars to 2nd-biggest domestic box office debut of pandemic
Only ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ posted a bigger opening.
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Deep Water: ‘Tell Me How Many Black Seabirds,’ by Susan Cook
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
Karen Cheung’s ‘The Impossible City’ is a tribute to Hong Kong’s vanishing way of life
Cheung introduces readers to an array of characters and tackles themes such as belonging, postcolonial identity and the meaning of home in a nearly uninhabitable city.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Bedside table: So many books, so little time
Book recommendations from readers.
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Best-Sellers: ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land,’ ‘Wintering’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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Book review: Poems and prints commune in ‘What Rough Beasts’
Leslie Moore mediates on the natural world and what it has to teach us.
Posted inBooks, Food, Green Plate Special, Recipes
Green Plate Special: Tamar Haspel’s new book offers much food for thought
The Washington Post columnist grew, gathered, fished and hunted for her own food, and wrote about the experience.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Maine
Society Notebook: Fire & Ice Gala kicks off Carnaval ME
The Feb. 17 event was a fundraiser for WinterKids.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
This year’s Oscar-nominated shorts are long on dark material
The Academy Award-nominated short films are sometimes dismissed as the Raisinets of the Oscars: bite-sized portions of cinematic sweetness, with only nominal nutritional value. The reality is quite different. Despite films that do, sometimes, hew to the gently inspirational and uplifting, particularly in the category of animation, which Pixar has historically dominated, Oscar shorts are […]