Brazil-based new media artistic pair VJ Suave uses virtual reality software to create three-dimensional Floresta Encantada at Maine International Film Festival.
Life & Culture
Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inLife & Culture, Maine, News
Captain Marvel’s back story takes flight from the coast of Maine
‘The Life of Captain Marvel’ tells the back story of the character and her summers in the Harpswell area before the first Hollywood movie debuts.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Life & Culture
‘Hotel Transylvania 3’ tops at box office in opening weekend
The animated family movie earns $44.1 million from North American theaters in its opening weekend.
Posted inLife & Culture, Maine, News
Tours mark 350th anniversary of Eastern Cemetery in Portland
The Colonial-era burial ground comes alive during tours four days a week leading up to special events later this summer.
Posted inLife & Culture, Maine
Influx of arts, events in downtown Augusta signals new push for activity
Officials hope to draw more people downtown with riverfront concerts and other events, a new outdoor movie night, a growing number of large colorful murals and 6 new pieces of metal sculpture.
Posted inFood & Dining, Life & Culture, Maine
Food trucks serving state workers on Augusta east campus
The new food trucks are open to passersby, but their main target audience is the roughly 750-strong state workforce on the site.
Posted inLife & Culture, Restaurant reviews
Dine Out Maine: Overly complicated preparations mar some dishes at Walkers Maine
The components are all there. But sometimes there are just too many of them.
Posted inBooks, Source
Source’s Serious Summer Reading Guide
These books have a Maine theme or Maine-based writer.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Life & Culture
From Maine rivers to prison walls, a veteran artist’s study in ‘Blue’
A horrifying moment in Iraq in 2004 forever scarred Kelly Thorndike, but also gave him a way to respond to violence and to plead for humanity … and a reason to paint.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Life & Culture
Against tremendous odds, Abdi Nor Iftin made it from war-ravaged Somalia to America
Now a Maine resident, he tells his harrowing tale in his new memoir.