Katherine Lee
Web Editor at The Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram
Web editor @PressHerald. 2012 Pulitzer, Breaking News Reporting. CA native w/ a Deep South detour. Ordinary superpower: Can nap anywhere
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pressherald.com | Katherine Lee
Tucked behind the Wex headquarters beyond a stretch of gravel parking lot in downtown Portland are two adjoining empty buildings. On a sunny Wednesday, Josh Schlesinger, who has leased the spaces, pulls open a garage door, letting the light pour in. “It’s pretty crazy what this place is going to become,” he said. And if all goes according to plan, that will be a new music venue, Live at Madrids, with room for about 800 people.
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pressherald.com | Katherine Lee
Seeing a great live concert can lift your spirits and boost your energy, but it can also empty your wallet. Thankfully, there are lots of free concerts and other performances around Maine this summer. Many shows are part of a free concert series in a town park or public space. Portland also has free Shakespeare in the Park, and there are free shows for younger folks at Opera Maine and Ogunquit Playhouse.
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pressherald.com | Katherine Lee
Every summer, Tara McDonough makes a plan. For more than a decade, McDonough has been involved in one way or another with PortFringe, an annual theater festival that pushes the boundaries of performing arts. This year, the program will include more than a dozen shows across four venues in a little more than a week. McDonough is on the planning committee, but she usually has to get organized to make sure she sees everything she wants to see during the whirlwind.
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pressherald.com | Katherine Lee
The host of “The Nite Show with Danny Cashman” called into the Howard Stern show this week to talk about the “magnificent” moment David Letterman appeared on his show. Stern started the segment by describing Cashman’s long-running show in Bangor as one “no one’s heard of” and seemed surprised by Letterman’s appearance. “I thought Letterman had been kidnapped and put on this show,” he said. Letterman was the final guest on Cashman’s show, which wraps up this month after 15 years.
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pressherald.com | Katherine Lee
After nearly six years as a renter, Portland’s Indigo Arts Alliance now owns its East Bayside studio site. The Black-owned art collaborative first moved into 60 Cove St., a purpose-built community and studio space, in 2019. At the time, the young operation, which was founded the previous year, could only afford to rent the roughly 4,000-square-foot space, but Executive Director Jordia Benjamin said ownership was always the plan.
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Bill Nemitz credits Maine Rep. Jared Golden for a change of heart on banning assault weapons, but he's angry that it took bloodshed on Golden's own doorstep before he got there. https://t.co/B135DRvFbq
