Katherine Lee

1 week ago | pressherald.com | Katherine Lee

Let’s say you want to see Billy Idol at Maine Savings Amphitheater in Bangor in August. You Google “Billy Idol Bangor tickets” on a Thursday in April. A top search result is StubHub. You click. The prices go up to more than $500 for the section closest to the stage. Yikes. Can you get a better deal somewhere else? You check Ticketmaster, where front row seats are also selling for more than $500. Before you buy, you double check the actual website for the Maine Savings Amphitheater.

1 week ago | pressherald.com | Katherine Lee |Megan Gray

Greater Portland Landmarks will not continue its lawsuit over the proposed expansion of the Portland Museum of Art. The preservation nonprofit sued the city last year in hopes of saving the building at 142 Free St. from demolition. The museum plans to raze it to make way for a sweeping new wing. But in March, a judge ruled in the museum’s favor. On Thursday, Greater Portland Landmarks announced that it would not appeal that decision.

1 week ago | pressherald.com | Katherine Lee

This week’s poem, “Apology to the Flock,” offers a mournful and poignant meditation on a troubled relationship between humans and geese. I love this poem’s vivid imagery of these birds and a human’s almost-comic efforts to send them on their way, and I love the speaker’s candid ambivalence — her love of the geese even as she wishes them gone. Jeanne Julian is author of “Like the O in Hope” and two chapbooks.

1 week ago | pressherald.com | Katherine Lee

The E-ZPass system on the Maine Turnpike was shut down for 12 hours in March to avoid a potential online security breach, turnpike officials said Tuesday. As a precaution, the Maine Turnpike Authority hasn’t charged tolls to user accounts for nearly a month — a process it plans to resume this week. TransCore, the authority’s E-ZPass vendor, shut down its lane-scanning system after it detected an attempted security breach, said authority spokesperson Erin Courtney.

2 weeks ago | pressherald.com | Katherine Lee

This week’s poem, by Sara Lynn Eastler, considers the life of rock and water. I love how this poem moves into ever more intimate relationship with these elements with each new stanza, before a final reflection on time, as it shapes both granite and ourselves. Eastler is an assistant poetry editor for Qu Literary Review and a freelance contributor to the Southern Review of Books. Her poetry has been published in Passengers Journal, Anodyne, Voices of Decolonization, and The Bangalore Review.