The end of the studio rom-com era has taken many tolls, not least on the career of Nicholas Hoult, who with the right movies could have been his generation’s Hugh Grant – a baton-passing anticipated in Hoult’s breakout turn alongside the older actor 20-plus years ago in “About a Boy.” As a grown-up, Hoult has […]
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Temporary Splendors: Two new poetry collections embrace the transitory
Claire Millikin’s ‘Elegiaca Americana’ and Ellen Taylor’s ‘Homelands’ tackle similar themes in quite different ways.
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It’s easy to see what’s wrong with car culture. Fixing it is harder
In ‘Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It,’ Daniel Knowles says a lot about how cars make life worse, and not enough about what to do about it.
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Art review: Three shows this spring burst forth with Maine talent
Painterly power infuses this colorful trove from artists at various stages of their careers.
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‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’ a rational if desperate pragmatism
“How to Blow Up a Pipeline” is a provocation within a provocation, raising all manner of timely questions, from the moral valence of activist sabotage to the value of storytelling itself. Based on Swedish author Andreas Malm’s 2021 book of the same name, this dramatized version of Malm’s polemic – in which he advocated for […]
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Theater review: For lesson on tolerance, Portland Stage goes back to the baked goods
‘The Cake’ tells the story of a young Southern-born woman whose marriage to another woman gives her mother’s best friend pause about baking for the wedding.
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Edith Wilson: The first lady who fooled D.C. and ran the White House
Rebecca Boggs Roberts’s ‘Untold Power’ is a riveting look at a president’s powerful spouse and her efforts to conceal his illness.
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Art review: Season heats up with assemblages at Dunes, ‘Arrangements’ at Moss
The shows in Portland and Falmouth mark the start of a busier time for galleries.
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The rise and fall of Monson, Maine
‘Here & Everywhere Else’ tells the story of the remote town over several hundred years. But be forewarned: it’s dense reading.
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The new ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ film mostly captures the game’s magic
With the popular resurgence of the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, it was only a matter of time before a movie studio got hold of it. I mean, another movie studio. Yes, there was a trilogy in the 2000s, with Part 2 made for TV and Part 3 going straight to video. But no, they […]