Local superfan Marian Starkey will be there.
Life & Culture
Stories about life, culture, entertainment and arts from the Portland Press Herald.
Posted inBusiness, Food, Leslie Bridgers, Life & Culture, Local & State
Of course millennials killed U-pick farms | Column
By caring more about taking photos than buying fruit, the generation has added another casualty to its growing list of victims.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Business, Life & Culture, Local & State, News
Maine has long been a destination for international artists. Under Trump, some are staying away.
Artists, festivals and presenters are feeling the effects of the president’s policies on immigration enforcement, travel bans and sexual orientation.
Posted inHealth, Local & State, News
Groundbreaking Kennebec County mobile medical program to shift focus
Doctors from the MD3 program in Kennebec County hope to continue their work with first responders to reverse overdoses in the county.
Posted inLife & Culture, Local & State, News
Postcard mailed from Washington, D.C., arrives in Maine — 52 years later
Diane Madden was 14 in 1973 when she sent her grandparents in South Portland a postcard from the nation’s capital. Decades later, the memory came back to her through a friendly stranger’s efforts.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Business, Do This, Life & Culture
Maine’s roller skating scene gets a leg (and some wheels) up from social media
Online videos of roller skaters at Westbrook’s Happy Wheels have gone viral recently. They’re working to attract younger people to the activity and sport.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Life & Culture, Review
The true story of a shipwrecked couple’s fight to survive
Sophie Elmhirst’s ‘A Marriage at Sea’ chronicles the doomed aquatic adventure of a British husband and wife in 1972.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Life & Culture
Bestsellers: ‘Spectacular Things’ and ‘Big Dumb Eyes’ top local bestseller lists
Here are the week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Life & Culture
Documentary film tells Maine sailor’s tale of surviving 76 days in a life raft
’76 Days Adrift,’ a documentary about Steven Callahan’s time in a life raft after his sailboat sank in 1982, will screen at the Maine International Film Festival in Waterville.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Life & Culture, Review
In Peter Heller’s latest, two hunters emerge from a week in Maine’s North Woods to find total devastation
‘Burn,’ an apocalyptic novel of friendship, is a terrific read.