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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ICE has held a Maine resident in jail for 8 months. The ACLU says it’s illegal.

2 weeks ago | centralmaine.com | Katherine Lee

Immigration officials have held a man in jail for more than eight months and is offering no indication on when he’ll go to court or get out, according to a petition filed on his behalf in court. Eyidi Ambila, 44, has lived in Maine since he was seven years old, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine. He has a family, including two minor children, and is their primary provider. Ambila was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo but is stateless, the ACLU added.
Bates College Museum of Art hires a new director

2 weeks ago | sunjournal.com | Katherine Lee

The new head of the Bates College Museum of Art is an expert in postwar and contemporary Japanese art, photography and feminist art history, and has a forthcoming book about tattooing in contemporary art. Carrie Cushman will start her job as the director of the Lewiston museum on Aug. 18. In her current role, she is a gallery director and curator at the University of Hartford’s art school in Connecticut.
Singer Role Model to star in Netflix romcom with Natalie Portman, Mark Ruffalo

2 weeks ago | centralmaine.com | Katherine Lee

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Deep Water: ‘Papermakers Still,’ by Patricia Smith Ranzoni

3 weeks ago | pressherald.com | Katherine Lee

This week’s poem, Patricia Smith Ranzoni offer a homage to the spirit and legacy of Maine’s papermakers. I love this poem’s rich images of hands, fibers, and the elements, and its refrain of “Because” — repeated like a song, or a sacred chant. Ranzoni writes from Bucksport, where she is poet laureate and co-chairs the effort to found their paper making museum.
New concert venue planned for Portland waterfront

3 weeks ago | 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.
Here are the free concerts, opera and musicals you can see in Maine this summer

3 weeks ago | 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.
Summer in Maine will be stocked with theater

3 weeks ago | 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.
‘The Nite Show’ host Dan Cashman talks Letterman with Howard Stern

3 weeks ago | 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.
Indigo Arts Alliance buys its East Bayside studio

3 weeks ago | 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.
Power outages hit nearly 1/3 of Westbrook households Monday

3 weeks ago | pressherald.com | Katherine Lee

About a third of Westbrook residents were without power Monday afternoon, according to Central Maine Power Co.More than 3,400 of CMP’s 10,800 customers in Westbrook were without power by 3:30 p.m. Power appeared to go out around 2:45 p.m.The company also reported more than 240 outages in neighboring Windham. The cause of the outages was not immediately clear Monday afternoon. A spokesperson for CMP could not immediately be reached. This story will be updated as more information is available.