“Lightyear” disappoints with $51 million in its debut weekend in North America.
Arts & Entertainment
Arts and entertainment news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Book review: When a librarian and her widowed mom fly to England to help run a family bookstore, they get more than they bargained for
‘Chapter and Curse,’ the first in a new mystery series from Elizabeth Penney, offers likeable characters and plausible motivations – for murder.
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Tracy Flick is back – and she’s tired of losing
Flick, the ambitious high school student from Tom Perrotta’s 1998 novel ‘Election,’ is now an assistant principal in the sequel, ‘Tracy Flick Can’t Win.’
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Bedside table: Two books, one soothing, one a lot less so
Book recommendations from readers.
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Deep Water: ‘My Father Could Take Apart a Dryer,’ by Jefferson Navicky
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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Best-Sellers: ‘Big Truck Little Island,’ ‘Breaking Bread’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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Art review: Able Baker says so long with show of gallery’s friends
‘Painting Nerds: ABC Farewell Show’ will be the Portland gallery’s last, at least in its Forest Avenue space.
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Bill Cosby civil trial jury must start deliberations over
It’s a bizarre ending to a strange day.
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Drag story hour hosts, under attack, dig in their heels
Organizers say they will enhance security but won’t stop their programs.
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‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ staff detained at U.S. Capitol
They were charged with illegal entry to House office buildings.