If you’re going to the shows on Saturday and Sunday, here’s a look at how to get there, where the stages and amenities are and what else to expect.
Life & Culture
Stories about life, culture, entertainment and arts from the Portland Press Herald.
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Maine’s surprising, offbeat movies this summer include very good dogs, struggling artists and a fun ‘Superman’
Summer movie season steamrollers on. And if you’re suffering from a little blockbuster fatigue, I took a stroll through some of the more surprising, offbeat and alluring alternative offerings on Maine’s movie screens for the next few weeks. We’ve got Maine natives coming home, a pair of one-of-a-kind artistic documentary portraits, some very good (if […]
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Portland street medicine partnership provides care for some of city’s most vulnerable
Project Lifeline provides care to pregnant and postpartum people who are unhoused and dealing with addiction.
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Art steamrolls into Portland at annual Print Jam
The seventh annual event from local studio Running With Scissors brought industrial-sized woodblock printmaking to the Portland arts scene.
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In Portland Theater Festival’s ‘Make Believe,’ 4 children reckon with growing up fast
The first half of the play is acted entirely by kids. The second half jumps ahead 30 years to revisit them as grownups.
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A look at Hulk Hogan’s WWF exploits in Maine in photos, archives
Hogan, who died Thursday at 71, wrestled 13 matches in the Pine Tree State.
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Maine’s rising humidity signals shifting climate: ‘We’re living in a wetter world’
The state’s biggest cities have seen a gradual rise in temperature and dew points since the late 1940s, making the summer heat more oppressive.
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Hogfish’s opera ‘Svadba’ ends with a big Balkan dance party in Portland
‘Svadba,’ which translates to ‘wedding’ in Serbian, is inspired by Balkan folk music and wedding rituals.
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A heartbreaking, achingly beautiful memoir of love, loss and resilience
In ‘The Murmur of Everything Moving,’ Maureen Stanton relates how her passionate, tumultuous young love with Steve changed inalterably when he got sick.
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Deep Water: ‘The Medicine Man,’ by Sharif Elmusa
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.