After a record-breaking start, October’s box office closed out quietly this weekend
Life & Culture
Stories about life, culture, entertainment and arts from the Portland Press Herald.
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‘Antlers’ is a creature feature, grounded in real-world horrors
Scott Cooper, the actor-turned-filmmaker (“Crazy Heart”) from Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, isn’t known for horror movies – at least not the conventional kind – but for having an eye and an ear for an America that’s often forgotten by those in its bigger cities. In such films as “Out of the Furnace,” he displayed an […]
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Warren man’s career in storytelling takes a supernatural turn
Paul Guernsey edits The Ghost Story website and anthologies of contemporary supernatural fiction.
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Best-Sellers: ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land,’ ‘Downeast’
The current top 10 best-selling fiction and nonfiction books in hardcover and paperback at Longfellow Books in Portland.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Maine
Society Notebook: Maine family-owned businesses recognized for their impact, near and far
The Institute for Family-Owned Business held its annual awards ceremony for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
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Theater review: Suspicions swirl among large, talented cast of ‘Lady Susan’
Good Theater gives an entertaining world premiere of the adaptation of Jane Austen’s novella.
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Deep Water: ‘The Close,’ by Katie Prior
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Read excerpts from ’21st Century Ghost Stories’
The anthology was edited by Paul Guernsey of Warren.
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Bedside table: Fact and fiction, present times and past blend in this New England mystery
“‘Point of Graves’ is a great work of fiction. Facts are bent, and the outcomes will grip readers and draw them in. Mark Twain knew that playing fast and loose with facts makes for great storytelling: ‘Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please,’ he famously said. Writer J. Dennis Robinson’s […]
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In ‘Hide and Don’t Seek,’ the stories are short, but the creepiness lingers
A Deer Isle native’s new book for children could prove ‘a gateway drug to Stephen King.’
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