Life & Culture - Portland Press Herald

Arts & Entertainment, Do This

Indie Film: Message about elder issues gets George A. Romero treatment in ‘The Amusement Park’

by Dennis Perkins June 14, 2021June 13, 2021

The lost film premiered on Shudder last week.

Arts & Entertainment, Do This

‘Nanny’ actor stars in Ogunquit’s slimmed-down ‘Spamalot’

by Bob Keyes June 14, 2021June 10, 2021

Charles Shaughnessy plays King Arthur in the playhouse’s first production in its new open-air pavilion.

Arts & Entertainment, Do This

Live Music Lineup: Country, roots, rock and folk shows all happening this weekend

by Aimsel Ponti June 14, 2021June 11, 2021

See performances from Charlie Marie, Love By Numb3rs and David Mallett.

Arts & Entertainment, Do This, Food

Eat & Run: Soul Food Paradise fills a niche, and your belly

by Meredith Goad June 14, 2021June 14, 2021

The new takeout restaurant at Fork Food Lab in Portland serves up the classics, quickly.

Arts & Entertainment

‘In the Heights’ makes muted box office debut

by JAKE COYLE Associated Press June 13, 2021June 13, 2021

The Broadway musical adaptation was edged out by ‘A Quiet Place Part II.’

Arts & Entertainment

Deep Water: ‘Core Body Temperature,’ by Ken Craft

June 13, 2021June 10, 2021

Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.

Arts & Entertainment

With two movies now showing and one on the way, Portland cinematographer is having a blockbuster summer

by Ray Routhier June 13, 2021June 14, 2021

Alice Brooks shot two major films in theaters now, ‘In the Heights’ and ‘Queen Bees.’ A third – ‘Tick, Tick…Boom!’ – is due out later this year.

Arts & Entertainment, Books

Bedside Table: Two excellent books for the farm girl in all of us

June 13, 2021June 21, 2021

“I recently finished rereading ‘The Dirty Life,’ a memoir of an aspiring New York City journalist transplanted to the country to start a 500-acre farm from scratch. Author Kristin Kimball mixes the realism of building a farm and business with enough romanticism to leave me wanting to get my hands in the dirt. The sequel, […]