A new exhibition at CMCA explores how art and artists interact – and how they fit in.
Life & Culture
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See the world through 3 different lenses at Portland Museum of Art
The photos and prints leave little to chance, but much to interpretation.
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Indie Film: ‘Jacinta’ offers a clear-eyed, compassionate portrait of abuse, poverty and prison
PMA Films screens the movie by Maine filmmaker Jessica Earnshaw on Nov. 5.
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Let computers do it: Film set tragedy spurs call to ban guns
A petition was launched over the weekend on change.org for real guns to be banned from production sets.
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Crew member who gave Baldwin gun subject of prior complaint
Maggie Goll, a prop maker and licensed pyrotechnician, says she filed a complaint about assistant director Dave Halls’ behavior on set in 2019.
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Despite hybrid release, ‘Dune’ draws well on the big screen
Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” debuted with $40.1 million in ticket sales in its opening weekend in North America.
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Ed Sheeran has COVID, will do performances from home
Ed Sheeran breaks the news on social media days before his new studio album is due out.
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Book review: In an unusually told biography, writer Rachel Field lives again
Biographer Robin Clifford Wood has an unusual advantage in telling her subject’s life story – she lives in Field’s former house on an island in Maine. That house, Wood argues, had an outsize impact on Field.
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Bedside Table: A Lindbergh biography with manifold appeal
“Hero worship. Populism. Eugenics. ‘America First’ Nationalism. White Supremacy. Racism. Anti-Semitism. Disenfranchisement of Black Voters. Historian Christopher Gehrz (Bethel University, Minneapolis) touches on these themes and more in ‘Charles Lindbergh: A Religious Biography of America’s Most Infamous Pilot.’ “Most people can readily identify Charles Lindbergh as the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic […]
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Michael Keaton was scared to take on his latest role. That’s why he did.
WASHINGTON — Asked why he offered Michael Keaton a lead role in his new Hulu miniseries, “Dopesick,” creator Danny Strong responds as you might expect: Why not? He shot for the stars – well, one star in particular – and figured that if he were to rack up a few passes, he might as well […]