Anti-poverty organization Global Citizen wants to raise $22 billion to help get much-needed doses to poor countries.
Life & Culture
Stories about life, culture, entertainment and arts from the Portland Press Herald.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
Young adults run amok in the silly sci-fi thriller ‘Voyagers’
Set in the late 21st century, on a spacecraft en route to a new “Earth” – a habitable planet, 86 years distant from ours, to be colonized by the best representatives of the human race, after climate change and disease have ravaged this one – the sci-fi thriller “Voyagers” is grounded in very real current […]
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Posted inArts & Entertainment
Luke Bryan tests positive for COVID, sidelined from ‘American Idol’
Paula Abdul will be the judge’s temporary replacement.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Sidelined last year, the Met Gala is returning – twice
The star-studded event will be held Sept. 13 this year, and held next year in its usual slot of the first Monday in May.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Maine
Bowdoin music festival will resume this summer for students
But performances likely will not have live audiences and instead will be livestreamed from the Brunswick campus.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Apple, Will Smith to move new film ‘Emancipation’ out of Georgia to protest new voting-rights law
The move marks Hollywood’s first major exit from the state where it shoots much of its work since the bill was signed into law last month.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
‘Sopranos’ actor Joseph Siravo, a Broadway veteran, dies at 66
Siravo was best known for playing mobster Tony Soprano’s father in flashbacks on the hit HBO drama.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This
Face the Music: It’s back to the alternative ’80s with Hiss & Chambers
The local modern rockers cover four tunes on new EP.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This
Are you ready for ‘Bad Dates’? Portland Stage hopes so
The funny and relevant show opens Friday to limited live audiences.
Posted inMaine, Religion and Values
Maine congregations break away from United Methodist Church over LGBTQ policies
HopeGateWay, a community of faith in Portland, voted recently in favor of disaffiliation, joining congregations on Peaks Island, Chebeague Island and in Cumberland that have taken the same step.