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Life & Culture
Stories about life, culture, entertainment and arts from the Portland Press Herald.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
Five Washington County high school girls navigate the challenges of growing up
Gigi Georges titled her new nonfiction book ‘Downeast: Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America.’ She might have called it True Grit.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World
Warner Williams, master of Piedmont blues, dies at 91
Folklorists regarded him as one of the last ‘songsters,’a term for traveling Black troubadours.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Chopin portrait bought at flea market is from 19th century
A peeling painting of the Polish piano composer hung modestly in a private house for almost three decades before an expert dated it.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, New England, News
Judge hears arguments in school’s plan to conceal murals
A federal judge is considering whether Vermont Law School has a right to conceal two large murals because some people in the school community find them racially offensive.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Life & Culture, Nation & World
France to return African art taken during colonial era
A museum near the Eiffel Tower holds thousands of works from former French colonies.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World
Dolly Parton, businesses raise $700,000 for flood victims
More than 500 homes and 50 businesses were damaged in August after up to 17 inches of rain fell in less than 24 hours in Middle Tennessee.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This
Press Play: Listen to ‘A Woman’s World’ by Amy Allen
The Maine native has been writing songs for other artists and is making her own splash with new single.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Nation & World, News
Tanzanian writer awarded Nobel Prize for Literature
Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in Zanzibar in 1948 and recently retired as a professor at the University of Kent in England.
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Fisk Jubilee Singers celebrate 150 years since first tour
The singing group started performing in 1871 to raise money for its university.