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Russell Brand’s YouTube channel demonetized, shows pulled from BBC amid rape allegations
The comedian hasn’t been charged, but the media platform says he violated its ‘creator responsibility policy.’
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Don and Cindy Roy bring fiddle music to Oasis of Music
The Oasis of Music will present the fiddle music of Don and Cindy Roy beginning at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 27, at Trinity Commons in Lewiston. The Roys are the premier fiddle and piano duo of Maine, whose music has been dubbed “the aural signature of the pine tree state.” They direct the acclaimed […]
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Zelensky: Russia is weaponizing food, energy and abducted children in its war against Ukraine
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky took to the world stage at a sensitive point in his country’s campaign to maintain international support for its fight at the U.N. General Assembly’s annual top-level meeting.
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Thanks to Skowhegan-area students, families are hot on the trail for a good story
With an assist by the New Balance Foundation, a group of students are working with others to create a third StoryWalk trail after previously establishing ones in Madison and along Lake George in Canaan.
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Auto workers threaten to expand targeted strike if no progress by Friday
So far the strike is limited to about 13,000 workers at a Ford assembly plant in Michigan, a GM factory in Missouri and a Stellantis plant in Ohio.
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Ray Epps, targeted by a Jan. 6 conspiracy theory, is charged with a misdemeanor in riot
The former Marine has claimed in a lawsuit filed this year that Fox News Channel made him a scapegoat for the Capitol riot, falsely claiming he was a government agent who was whipping up trouble.
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Gilbert & Sullivan make a triumphant return to Theater at Monmouth
Theater at Monmouth opens A Celebration of Gilbert & Sullivan featuring “Cox & Box” as their fall show with remaining showtimes at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 23, and at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 24. Then, after the interval, journey through Gilbert & Sullivan’s musical catalogue with an Original Revue written by Adam P. […]
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Author Jennifer Lunden to discuss latest book at Denmark Arts Center
Author Jennifer Lunden discusses her most recent book, “American Breakdown,” at 5 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 24, at the Denmark Arts Center. Her wide-ranging, genre-crossing literary mystery interweaves the author’s quest to understand the source of her own condition with her telling of the story of the chronically ill 19th-century diarist Alice James — ultimately […]
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Lynne McGhee returns with ‘Dead Girls, the Musical’ at Denmark Arts Center
Musical theater vocalist Lynne McGhee is back with “Dead Girls, the Musical” a musical tribute to iconic pop queens who have left us at 7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 22, at the Denmark Arts Center. Vocalist/comedienne Lynne McGhee and the Dead Girls Band salute divas from the great beyond: Patsy Cline, Cass Elliot, Karen Carpenter, […]