Comic Arts Maine Portland, which began in 2025, will feature exhibitors, workshops and panels with comics creators on Saturday.
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Arts, entertainment and books news from the Sun Journal.
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Ahead of Portland shows, actor Nick Offerman talks Ron Swanson, woodworking and new projects
The humorist, actor, writer and woodworker has 2 performances at Merrill Auditorium.
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Mystery Photo for April 5, 2026
Correctly guess where this photo was taken and you could win a $25 Hannaford Supermarket gift card.
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Portland teacher announced as new Maine poet laureate
Dawn Potter, of Portland, was named Friday as the seventh person to fill the role, which was created in 1995.
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Lady Gaga music in Lewiston, Pink Floyd music in Gardiner, ‘wrong’ theater in Bath
Here are highlights of things to do in the area in the next week.
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Her husband built Ogunquit’s art museum. Decades later, Maggie Strater finally gets her spotlight.
Strater was a fellow patron of art in the community, but was overlooked in the shadow of her husband.
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‘All friendships are unusual,’ says Maine writer of the relationship centered in her debut memoir
In ‘Slow Motion,’ Jennifer Dupree tells the story of her decades-long friendship with Marcel, a man living with cerebral palsy in Maine.
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‘Fae for a Dae’ held in Auburn
Photographer Russ Dillingham captures the fantastical pop-up market at the Auburn Mall.
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Read the poem ‘Path of Totality,’ by Kate Kearns
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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7 Maine events this week include Aly & AJ, David Sedaris in Portland
Also see ‘The Wizard of Oz’ on the big screen in Gardiner.