The documentary filmmaker talks about his latest subject, the editing process and his wordless conversation with ‘The Greatest.’
Life & Culture
Stories about life, culture, entertainment and arts from the Portland Press Herald.
‘From the Mountains to the Sea’ offers a meticulous account of the restoration of the Penobscot River
A broad spectrum of people and groups came together with a common goal – and they actually got something done.
Art review: Bates displays nature art left by late professor
The art museum is closed to the public, but ‘Carl Benton Straub: His Enduring Legacy’ is available to view digitally.
Best-Sellers: ‘Beautiful World, Where Are You,’ ‘The Isolation Artist’
The current top 10 bestselling fiction and nonfiction books in hardcover and paperback at Longfellow Books in Portland.
Jane Austen makes a cameo in a charmer about friendship and the literary life
‘Jane Austen and Shelley in the Garden’ whisks readers to Cambridge, Wales and Venice, in the company of a delightful gang of scholars
Society Notebook: EqualityMaine turns annual gala into outdoor festival
Before the Aug. 28 awards ceremony, guests mingled and sampled food outside at Thompson’s Point.
Pauli Murray should have been a civil rights icon. Now her moment has finally come.
When an outspoken Howard University law student named Pauli Murray helped lead a group of students into Little Palace Cafeteria, a restaurant on Washington D.C.’s U Street, one spring afternoon, they didn’t come expecting lunch. It was 1943, and even in a neighborhood known for its flourishing Black businesses, vibrant theater scene (a.k.a. Black Broadway) […]
Bedside table: These campers, perforce, are rolling stones
“Anyone who has ever vacationed in a camper or motor home will enjoy reading ‘Nomadland.’ The author, journalist Jessica Bruder, followed campers who lived in their vehicles full time. There are two kinds of people who travel in campers, she writes, the middle class and the Nomads. Full-timers are the new Nomads. They travel from […]
There was no late-night talk show guest quite like Norm Macdonald
Wearing his signature mischievous grin, Norm Macdonald tells Conan O’Brien the joke. The setup is simple: A moth walks into a podiatrist’s office. The journey is anything but. As O’Brien looks increasingly ready to rip his red hair out by the handful, Macdonald’s moth tells of his boss, “Gregory Olinivich,” “who knows he has power […]
History lesson: A Maine native’s play about a witness to the Holocaust is poised to embark on national tour
‘Remember This: The Lesson of Jan Karski’ was co-written by Deering High School graduate Clark Young and stars acclaimed actor David Strathairn.