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Farmington university project covers growing up amid Iranian Revolution

“Persepolis” by Marjane Satrapi is the next planned featured topic in the University of Maine at Farmington’s New Commons project. “Persepolis” is Satrapi’s autobiographical coming-of-age story of growing up in Iran during the tumultuous political climate of the 1970s and ’80s. It follows her life of heartache and survival through pre- and post-revolutionary Iran, according […]

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Cafe Brazil Band concert set for Waterville

  The Cafe Brazil Band will perform a concert of Brazilian jazz at 7 p.m. Saturday, July 1, at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 60 Eustis Parkway in Waterville. The band features Steven Silverstein, clarinet and alto saxophone, and Peter Griggs, guitar and vocals, performing bossa nova and choro music by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Luiz Bonfa, […]

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‘Parallel Mothers’ is like a neglected blister on what is at its core, the story of women

I’m definitely not one of the many fans of the internationally acclaimed Spanish writer director Pedro Almodovar. Remember here, that I’m a film “reviewer” not “critic,” even though I can get cranky. I’ve only seen two of Almodovar’s films, because of his two favorite actors, Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas. I would watch laxative commercials […]