The decision came after the 29-year-old rapper directed comments against those in the LGBTQ community and people with HIV/AIDS during his set at a festival.
Life & Culture
Stories about life, culture, entertainment and arts from the Portland Press Herald.
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With feelings of triumph and trepidation, Maine audiences return
Fans enthusiastically welcome back live music to Portland, but many also worry their celebrations will be short-lived because of the latest coronavirus surge.
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A visceral account of a refugee’s desperation
Omar El Akkad’s novel about a Syrian boy’s panicked flight is a testament to the impossible predicament confronted by millions of people.
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‘Stillwater,’ with Matt Damon, is four movies in one, and only some of them work
In “Stillwater,” Matt Damon plays Bill Baker, an Oklahoma roughneck who works on oil rigs by day and prays before his fast-food dinner at night. Laconic and unsmiling, Bill has a lot on his mind, the substance and complexity of which is revealed with deliberate finesse in the course of a movie best described as […]
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A dark debut novel follows the fortunes of four intersecting families
A novel in stories, W.S. Winslow’s ‘The Northern Reach’ spans a century in a small Maine town.
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Society Notebook: Foodies eat up Fork’s Summer Sampler
You’ll have another chance in August to taste-test the fruits of Portland’s food incubator.
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‘Ted Lasso’ overwhelms with its kindness and compassion. It’s OK to find it annoying.
There was no greater TV underdog story last year than “Ted Lasso,” the unassuming and not-particularly-ambitious soccer-world comedy that became one of 2020’s few word-of-mouth sensations. Based on a character that “Saturday Night Live” alum Jason Sudeikis had originally played in promos for NBC Sports, the series, about an American college football coach recruited to […]
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Best-sellers: ‘Project Hail Mary,’ ‘The Premonition’
Top 10 best-selling fiction and nonfiction books in hardcover and paperback at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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Feast on these lobster novels
Editor’s Note: Given Vinalhaven’s centuries-old tradition of lobstering, we asked Vinalhaven librarian Scott Candage to recommend a few novels about lobstering in Maine. These are his picks, listed in alphabetical order by writer. “Stern Men” by Elizabeth Gilbert, Mariner Books, 2001 edition Yes, that Elizabeth Gilbert. Before she became famous for “Eat, Pray, Love,” Gilbert […]
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Deep Water: ‘Pyrocumulonimbus,’ by Meghan Sterling
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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