I was not alive when Big Band music was in its heyday, but I do remember my father listening to his 78s and me trying to look uninterested because there was something almost magical about the way that music would make you feel. At my age back then, the music of our parents was inherently […]
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Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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‘Murder, She Wrote’ actress Angela Lansbury dies at 96
Her stardom came in middle age when she became the hit of the New York theater, but her widest fame began in 1984 when she launched ‘Murder, She Wrote’ on CBS.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Maine Authors
Book review: ‘Lucky Turtle’ tells a sweeping coming-of-age tale of romance – and heartbreak
A teenage girl, and her older self, narrate Bill Roorbach’s latest novel, which tackles big themes of abuse, racism and love.
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Deep Water: ‘Atop Peaked Mountain,’ by Dennis Camire
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
Maine Gardener: All about foxgloves
Which, by the way, are not poisonous in ordinary garden circumstances. (Maybe that Smartphone isn’t so smart after all.)
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Bedside table: A multi-tasking reader makes her way through a tall stack
Book recommendations from readers.
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Best-Sellers: ‘Lucy by the Sea,’ ‘The Personal Librarian’
The top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
Posted inFood & Dining, Green plate special, Recipes
Let the whole animal butchers who are flourishing in Maine introduce you to something new
Chat with your local butcher and head home with a ‘poodle cut,’ an ‘oyster,’ a ‘spider steak’ or one of several other unconventional cuts newly available here.
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George Carlin’s talent manager now guards the comedian’s legacy from Maine
Jerry Hamza of Grand Lake Stream managed Carlin for more than 30 years and helped produce the Emmy-winning film ‘George Carlin’s American Dream.’
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Harvey Weinstein goes on trial in LA, where he once reigned
Five years after women’s stories about him made the #MeToo movement explode, Harvey Weinstein is going on trial in Los Angeles, where he once was king of the Oscars