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Life & Culture
Stories about life, culture, entertainment and arts from the Portland Press Herald.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Business, Maine
Movies are making a comeback at Maine theaters
Audiences are showing up for the summer’s blockbusters, and the shuttered Cinemagic locations are drawing interest from movie theater operators, but streaming options and health concerns still pose a threat.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Maine
Society Notebook: Greendrinks raises a reusable glass to Portland parks
The environmentally minded networking group held its first event since the start of the pandemic.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Sights unseen: Osher Map Library puts canceled travel plans in context
‘Where Will We Go From Here? Travel in the Age of COVID-19’ is a crowd-sourced exhibit that uses historic and unique maps to highlight the emotional power of trips missed during the pandemic.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
Theater review: Ogunquit Playhouse offers carefree ‘Escape’
The musical featuring the songs of Jimmy Buffett runs through Aug. 28.
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‘Space Jam: A New Legacy’ director Malcolm D. Lee has never been afraid to give the people what they want
On first consideration, Malcolm D. Lee directing the second film in the Space Jam franchise makes about as much sense as anything in “Space Jam” makes sense. In the first movie, Looney Tunes characters recruit Michael Jordan to help them win a basketball game against a group of evil aliens intent on forcing the Tunes […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
Need to explain, or understand, the United States today? Read this history
‘How the South Won the Civil War’ brilliantly explains today’s news by looking at yesterday’s.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Best-sellers: ‘We Will Rock Our Classmates,’ ‘Crying in H Mart’
The top 10 best-selling hardcover and paperback books in fiction and nonfiction at Longfellow Books in Portland.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
A son’s grieving tribute to greatness
Rodrigo Garcia’s ‘Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes’ takes readers into the private grieving for a public man.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
A true story of gay bullying turns preachy in the Mark Wahlberg movie ‘Joe Bell’
Based on a true story about the bullying of a gay teenager and its tragic consequences, the drama “Joe Bell” has a message to deliver. That message, which is good and necessary – urgent even – isn’t simply the point of this well-meaning movie. It’s the whole plot, which follows the teenager’s father, played by […]