Before touring cities around the state, the photos will be projected Friday among buildings in Portland’s Monument Square.
Life & Culture
Stories about life, culture, entertainment and arts from the Portland Press Herald.
Caitlyn Jenner says transgender girls in girls’ sports is ‘unfair’
The former Olympian says it’s a ‘question of fairness.’
Maine International Film Festival to hold in-person, virtual screenings
MIFF to return this July with focus on making the 10-day event accessible to all.
Bedside Table: A 100-plus-year-old book proves illuminating
“I recently made a foray to the upstairs library in our old family farm, where generations have left their favorite books behind. I picked up ‘The Enemies of Women’ by Vincente Blasco Ibanez, printed in 1920, just after World War I and the Spanish flu pandemic. Interestingly, the latter isn’t mentioned in the book. The […]
Art review: Farnsworth puts spotlight on women behind the Maine arts scene
‘Women of Vision’ uses artwork and wall texts to showcase their influence.
A farm woman of iron will yet surprising delicacy anchors this Icelandic drama
If you’ve seen the recent Oscar-winner “Nomadland,” you might recognize a little bit of Frances McDormand’s Fern in Inga, the indomitable heroine of “The County.” Granted, Inga lives on a dairy farm in Iceland, thousands of miles away from Fern’s itinerant existence tooling around the American West in search of work. Set adrift by grief […]
Familiar addiction drama is elevated by powerful performances
Anyone who saw the movie “Beautiful Boy” – the fact-based 2018 addiction drama starring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet as a father and son struggling with the younger man’s drug dependency – will already be familiar with the narrative rhythms of the similarly themed “Four Good Days.” Much like Felix Van Groeningen’s movie, based on […]
A grandmother, mother and daughter are trapped in a cabin by a violent sociopath
In Jen Waite’s first novel, the scary setup allows many family secrets to be revealed. And the tension ratchets up and up.
World-traveling organist comes home to the Kotzschmar
Katelyn Emerson, a York High School graduate and former student of Portland’s longtime municipal organist, will livestream a concert Friday from Merrill Auditorium.
Wrestling with the strategy – and morality – of the firebombing of Japan
A single raid on Tokyo on a March 1945 night, led to a fire that killed 100,000 people.
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