Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the National WWII Museum in New Orleans was planning on a 20th anniversary crowd of thousands.
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Cannes announces lineup for a festival canceled by COVID
From an empty movie theater in Paris, organizers of the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday announced the films that would have played at the French festival in May.
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Amy Grant has open heart surgery to fix longtime condition
Doctors discovered that the contemporary Christian singer had a heart condition called partial anomalous pulmonary venous return.
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Movie chain AMC warns it may not survive the pandemic
The company said that even when local governments allow theaters to reopen, AMC may still have problems if entertainment companies delay releasing new films.
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Cartoonists to thank frontline workers playfully this Sunday
More than 70 comic strips will have six symbols hidden in each strip.
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Judge gives control of ‘Tiger King’ properties to rival
Carole Baskin, owner of Big Cat Rescue Corp, now has full ownership of the zoo formerly run by Joe Exotic.
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Music industry calls for Black Out Tuesday amid unrest
It will hold a day to reflect and implement change in response to the death of George Floyd and other blacks.
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These are winners of this year’s Maine Literary Awards
Distinguished Achievement Award winner poet Betsy Sholl says celebrating poetry and literature is important because they help create empathy, something that today’s world could use.
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After half a century, Portland String Quartet violist quietly takes her bow
The pandemic means the revered musician will not get the public sendoff her ensemble mates had planned.
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How this chain saw sculptor came to make a carving fit for the Kings
Josh Landry of North Anson has been carving with a chain saw for years, but he’s never created anything quite like the 15-foot bookshelf animal sanctuary in the Bangor yard of Tabitha and Stephen King.