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Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Life & Culture, Maine
‘True creative’ from Dresden discovers talent for painting during the pandemic
In need of a new creative outlet, musician and carpenter Scott Elliot started painting in early 2020 and hasn’t stopped. Now, people are buying his work.
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Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
Seeing double? Repeat blooms a sign of the changing climate
You don’t have to look beyond your own garden for evidence of rising temperatures and the longer growing season.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Alec Baldwin sues in movie set killing
He says he has lost opportunities and been fired from jobs because of the shooting.
Posted inNation & World, Politics, Religion and Values
LGBTQ-friendly votes signal progressive shift for Methodists
Conservatives say the developments will only accelerate their exit from one of the nation’s largest Protestant denominations.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World
Kevin Conroy, the constant voice of Batman for a generation of fans, dies at 66
He penned the story of his life in ‘Finding Batman,’ laying out the struggles he faced as an openly gay man amid the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s in an industry that was far less accepting of homosexuality than it is today.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
‘Love Sick’: Trove of Bob Dylan’s teenage love letters for sale
The missives have never before been made public and shed light on a period in the folk-rock icon’s life for which not much firsthand information is known.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Art from Microsoft founder Paul Allen sells record for $1.5 billion
‘Never before have more than two paintings exceeded $100 million in a single sale, but tonight, we saw five,’ the auction house Christie’s announced.
Posted inJ.P. Devine, Movie Review J.P. Devine, Things to Do
‘Apocalypse Now’ film ‘is Vietnam’
“You’re an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks, to collect a bill.” Colonel Kurtz (Brando) When Francis Ford Coppola introduced his film “Apocalypse Now” at the Cannes Film Festival before its screening, he said, “My film is not about Vietnam, it is Vietnam.” He then added, “Little by little we went insane.” Indeed they did. […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World
Luke Combs tops CMA Awards; Loretta Lynn, Lewis honored
Luke Combs is the winner of the Country Music Association Awards’ coveted entertainer of the year trophy.