Pedro Almodovar’s ‘Parallel Mothers’ heads the list of Ann Hornaday’s favorite movies of the year.
Life & Culture
Stories about life, culture, entertainment and arts from the Portland Press Herald.
‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ is a big, fat Christmas present for fans
“Spider-Man: No Way Home,” for fanatic followers of the webslinger, is a big, fat Christmas present, covered in shiny, blue-and-red wrapping paper and all tied up with a pretty web bow. For more casual consumers of the costumed comic-book superhero’s exploits, mileage may vary. But there’s a whole lot to like here. There’s just a […]
Face the Music: Dance your way into Christmas weekend with Gina Alibrio & Red Eye Flight Crew
The Thursday night show at Portland House of Music is called Silent Flight.
‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ nets third best opening of all time with $253 million
Its five-day global total hits $587.2 million against a $200 million production budget.
Paul Rudd joins ‘SNL’ Five-Timers Club, without an audience
Viewers at home saw new sketches taped earlier in the week, as well as highlights from years past.
Lauded modern British architect Richard Rogers dies at 88
He promoted a vision of densely populated cities developed around technology and mass transit.
Author Eve Babitz, who captured and embodied LA culture, dies at 78
Her books wove back and forth between fiction and nonfiction, but all of it was rooted in her own experiences.
bell hooks, trailblazing Black feminist and social critic, dies at 69
Trailblazing Black feminist bell hooks, whose graceful, probing and wide-ranging books sought to empower people of all races, classes and genders, anticipating and helping shape ongoing debates about justice and discrimination in the United States, died Wednesday at her home in Berea, Kentucky. She was 69. The cause was end-stage renal failure, said her sister […]
The danger of American nostalgia for World War II
Romanticizing that war has led us to seek another just as “good,” Elizabeth Samet writes.
Society Notebook: Farms for Food Equity making headway toward ending hunger
The new nonprofit has big goals and generous supporters who showed up for its first fundraiser, held Dec. 9 at Rosemont Market & Wine Bar.