Review - Portland Press Herald

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard takes sold-out Thompson’s Point crowd for a wild ride

by Robert Ker August 21, 2024August 21, 2024

Fans of the genre-spanning Australian band are saying the Tuesday night show in Portland, featuring debut performances and a dip in the Fore River, was among the strongest on its tour so far.

Arts & Entertainment, Review

Women’s sculpture collective debuts work in Wells

by Jorge S. Arango August 18, 2024August 13, 2024

‘Life Forms’ – the name of the show and of the group of artists itself – formed a year ago and is embarking on plans for several shows.

Arts & Entertainment, Music, News, Review

At USM, an exuberant performance by East Coast Chamber Orchestra

by Steve Feeney August 16, 2024August 16, 2024

The Portland Chamber Music Festival wraps up Saturday.

Arts & Entertainment, Review

See how painter Lee Krasner and her peers shaped an artistic era

by Jorge S. Arango August 11, 2024August 9, 2024

Their geometric abstractions are the highlight of one show at Ogunquit Museum of American Art, where another exhibit features the paintings of artist Russell Cheney.

Arts & Entertainment, Maine, Review

In Brunswick, ‘Beautiful’ tribute to Carole King’s talent

by April Boyle August 9, 2024August 13, 2024

The jukebox musical is playing at Maine State Music Theatre through Aug. 24.

Arts & Entertainment, Review

‘It Ends With Us’ is glittery and traumatic. And, oh, those abs.

by Amy Nicholson Special to The Washington Post August 8, 2024

Millions of readers swooned over Colleen Hoover’s thorny romance “It Ends With Us,” the No. 1 bestselling novel of 2022 and 2023. They’ll come prepared for the clobbering heartbreak – and will hopefully pack an extra hankie for any nonfans entering the movie theater as blank as if they’re on a blind date. The film […]

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Review

A new book shines light on a largely forgotten group of female printmakers

by Dave Canarie August 4, 2024August 3, 2024

‘Trailblazing Women Printmakers: Virginia Lee Burton Demetrios and the Folly Cove Designers’ reexamines a collective of talented printmakers who operated in Massachusetts in the mid-20th century.

Arts & Entertainment, Review

Deadpool and Wolverine assemble. The result is hilarious.

by Amy Nicholson Special to The Washington Post July 31, 2024July 31, 2024

Marvel is sorry. Sorry about those confusing multiverse movies, sorry about the characters it’s hyped and abandoned, sorry that its parent company, Disney, gobbled up Twentieth Century Fox and the rights to the X-Men and, above all, sorry that the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s centerpiece, the self-serious Avengers franchise, suddenly seems as stale as your uncle’s […]