Filmmakers David Camlin and Megan Grumbling hope their hometown serves as a less-rancorous template for confronting the use of Native American imagery by sports teams.
Life & Culture
Stories about life, culture, entertainment and arts from the Portland Press Herald.
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Portland street photographer’s negatives from the ’70s make for nostalgia-inducing book
John Duncan’s ‘Take It Easy: Portland in the 1970s’ is a reminder of how much has changed.
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The Hartley show at Bates is a must-see, but don’t delay
The exhibition of the Lewiston-born painter’s masterworks is open only until Nov. 18.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This
Live Music Lineup: Paula Cole, The Boneheads and Half Waif with Lightning Bug
Cole has shows this weekend in Brownfield and Gardiner.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This
Face the Music: Listen to Laurie Jones’ ‘Dark Horse’ with the volume up
You can see her play at Blue on Sunday.
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‘Eternals’ opens with $71 million but audience response is mixed
One of Marvel’s most ambitious efforts to expand its superhero universe arrived in theaters over the weekend.
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Public art is popping up everywhere in effort to bring people together
From bus shelters to commercial buildings, many projects are in the works that are changing the look of towns around Maine.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Best-Sellers: ‘Crossroads,’ ‘Taste’
The current best-selling fiction and nonfiction books in hardcover and paperback at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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Society Notebook: Eastern Trail fundraiser helps make connections
The outdoor Bonfire & Brew event in Scarborough raised money to build out sections of the trail.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
‘Eternals’ has too much Marvel, not enough Chloe Zhao
Chloe Zhao, fresh off winning two historic Oscars for “Nomadland,” gracefully handles a thankless job with “Eternals,” a Marvel Cinematic Universe origin story that suffers from all the baggy, convoluted drawbacks of the form. Based on characters created by Jack Kirby that first appeared in a 1976 comic, the latest installment of never-ending MCU hegemony […]