As food prices increase and more and more people can’t afford to buy their own food, let alone travel to a store, the Winslow Community Cupboard brings it to their neighborhoods, Amy Calder writes.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inJ.P. Devine, Life & Culture, Movie Review J.P. Devine
‘Emily’ about sexed-up life of Emily Brontë
Dear viewers, I send you this week to the brand new Maine Film Center in Waterville to enjoy Francis O’Connor’s directorial debut film “Emily.” O’Connor, a former actor with a shiny resume (“Mansfield Park” 1999, “Bedazzled” 2000) steps out of the hot lights and into the impressive powerful dark world behind the camera where the […]
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Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde
Backyard Naturalist: Old trees offer perspective on time
Some trees on Earth are believed to have lived thousands of years, raising questions about how they might experience time and our own concepts about what it means to get old, Dana Wilde writes.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine
J.P. Devine: I confess — I’m not who you think I am
Did you know that J.P. Devine came to Maine under the government witness protection system and that his real name was Ernest Hemingway? True story.
Posted inAmy Calder, Local & State, Morning Sentinel
Reporting Aside: Portly feline disrupts the best-laid feeding plans of cats and men
It’s a balancing act, owning a fat cat that needs to lose weight and a skinny one who needs to gain, especially when it comes to meal time, Amy Calder writes.
Posted inJ.P. Devine, Life & Culture, Movie Review J.P. Devine
‘You People’ ending full of surprises
I came to like the young Jonah Hill when he was the “6 year kid” on Saturday Night Live. It was a hilarious bit and SNL repeated it, to my delight, many times. Then young Hill went sideways and off the Pacific Coast highway of showbiz. “21 Jump Street” and “22 Jump Street” and the […]
Posted inColumns, Liz Soares
Thinking Things Through: Getting sick, but not losing heart
Steadfastly sidestepping illness can only work for so long, because sometimes there’s no avoiding the siege of the Little Cold, columnist Liz Soares writes.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine
On the Edge: Cold enough for you?
Recent bone-chilling weather has J.P. Devine remembering his service time during the Korean War and the deeper cold within the human soul.
Posted inAmy Calder, Local & State, Morning Sentinel
Reporting Aside: Waterville infant born with fragile heart seen as ‘precious gift’ to family
Liliana Ann Greene was born Jan. 11 in Boston with a rare heart condition that required surgery the day after her birth, Amy Calder writes.