Author Archives: Karen

On Saturday, Kennedy Park will be crawling with police. And FBI agents. And a couple of bad guys in orange jail suits to complete the scene. Take a breath, friend, none of it will be real. Those aren’t police officers, as it turns out, they’re actors. The snarling dude in the jumpsuit? Also an actor. […]

Let the Maine Mayhem begin.  Always one of the most surprising and entertaining movie events of the year, the 12th annual Maine Mayhem Film Festival is coming to Portland’s Nickelodeon Cinema on Wednesday, May 11. The result of a semester of hard and productive work by students of Southern Maine Community College’s Communications and New […]

An alliance of major studios and entertainment industry unions are once again at the bargaining table to renegotiate the so-called return-to-work agreement — the terms for working during the pandemic — that expires April 30. On Friday the deal was extended to allow more time for negotiations, according to a joint union statement. Some people close to […]

A composer, a playwright and a collective of artists committed to repairing relationships between Wabanaki people and non-Natives are the Maine recipients of grant funding awarded this week by the New England Foundation for the Arts. The foundation, based in Boston, announced it had granted a total of $250,750 to 18 recipients through its New […]

Husband-and-wife filmmakers Matt Cascella and Jennifer Cordery moved to Portland from New York City a couple years ago and immediately felt inspired. “When we moved here, we were really burnt out on New York. Creating your own work there is so challenging, there’s so much competition and so many hurdles,” said Cordery, 40. “But here, […]