Frank Capra’s great film released in 1946, at its heart, a love story. It’s about family and the way we overcome disasters and hardships. It’s about hiding from love, until one night, love finds you. OK, any argument here? You’ve seen it one trillion times, and every time you see it, you see something new. […]
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inColumns, Liz Soares
Thinking Things Through: Marathon reading, with a new purpose
Now retired as a librarian, Liz Soares finds herself leaving behind “professional reading” all the time in favor of books solely for her own pleasure and curiosity.
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Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine
On the Edge: The Tinsel
Recalling how his brother Kermit loved tinsel, J.P. Devine hears whispers of the past.
Posted inAmy Calder, Morning Sentinel
Reporting Aside: Yes, there’s much that first must be done, but then let’s savor the holiday season
There are cards to write, cookies to bake and presents to wrap, but then the stress seems to fall away and we’re embraced by the joy of the Christmas season, Amy Calder writes.
Posted inJ.P. Devine, Movie Review J.P. Devine, Things to Do
‘Curtiz’ reminds reviewer that watching the making of anything is usually boring
In Netflix’s black and white Hungarian film “Curtiz” we are introduced to one of Hollywood’s most notorious film makers of the past- Micheal Curtiz (played here by Ferenc Lengyel). Curtiz was a Hungarian refugee who acted and directed myriad films in his native country after WWI, and then fled Europe in 1926 to come to […]
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde
Backyard Naturalist: Letter from the future
Imagining his grandson three decades from now, Dana Wilde ponders the mess we’re making of the environment and why we allow it to happen for future generations when we know what we’re doing.
Posted inJ.P. Devine, Life & Culture, Movie Review J.P. Devine
Perfectly cast group returns in ‘Slow Horses’
In a time of sex, gore, vampires and endless Jeopardy winners, the masterful “Slow Horses” is more than welcome back. This British contemporary spy thriller, based on the 11th book in the “Lamb” series by writer Mick Herron, (whose background is currently being featured in the Dec. 5 issue of New Yorker Magazine) is back […]
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine
On the Edge: Santa Claus is coming
Christmas memories and a surprise spring forth from a box containing yellowing songbooks with the “standards,” J.P. Devine writes.