Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine
On the Edge: Searching for the password to nonagenarian.com
Pondering whether there’s a manual or an app for 90-something-year-olds, J.P. Devine mulls what it means to belong.
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Posted inAmy Calder, Maine, Morning Sentinel
Reporting Aside: Cafe that’s been a fixture of the Waterville community to close
Jorgensen’s Cafe and Deli owner Theresa Dunn, who has owned the cafe since 2017 and worked for all four of its owners before that, plans to close the business around June 1, Amy Calder writes.
Posted inJ.P. Devine, Life & Culture, Movie Review J.P. Devine
‘The Half of It’ a lovely, romantic film, writes Devine
How about this? Edmond Rostand’s perfect love story “Cyrano de Bergerac” on cellphones? “The Half of It” is a lovely, romantic film with a perfect cast and magical writing by filmmaker Alice Wu, who directs from her own screenplay. We first meet Ellie as she pedals furiously down a small town road. Ellie is a […]
Posted inColumns, Liz Soares
Thinking Things Through: A love affair with movies
From the cinema to video stores, VCRs, DVD-by-mail and streaming, Liz Soares ponders her relationship with selecting the best movies to watch.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine
On the Edge: Happy Mother’s Day
As J.P. Devine marks Mother’s Day, he’s also thinking of Hollywood writers who are striking and his own family working in the entertainment industry.
Posted inAmy Calder, Maine, Morning Sentinel
Reporting Aside: Volunteers who give aid to others hope one day they’ll be ‘completely unnecessary’
A small group of people with the Greater Waterville Area Poverty Action Coalition/Poor People’s Campaign staff a table each Friday in Waterville to provide basic necessities to those in need, Amy Calder writes.
Posted inJ.P. Devine, Life & Culture, Movie Review J.P. Devine
‘Showing Up’ qualifies as ‘slow cinema,’ writes Devine
We learned today that Kelly Reichardt, the writer and director of this film, “grew up in a family of police officers.” I can’t think of an another writer or directer who comes from such a family. I come from a similar family, and I suspect, based on my experience, that Reichardt may have been adopted, […]
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde
Backyard Naturalist: Time, temperature and voices from the past
Dana Wilde considers whether the ocean is expanding even more quickly than anybody who knows what’s going on suspects.