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Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Review: In Elizabeth Strout’s latest novel, Lucy Barton confronts the pandemic
Despite its grim backdrop, ‘Lucy by the Sea’ offers considerable pleasures, among them a chance to spend more time with Barton, a recurring Strout character.
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Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
Maine Gardener: Falmouth gardens that feed the hungry are growing
Tidewater Farm is expanding its gardens and building structures, where it plans to hold classes.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Art review: One show celebrates Surrealism, another mud. Both are terrific
At the Portland Museum of Art and Ogunquit Museum of American Art, respectively, see ‘obstreperous’ Surrealists, who proposed upending all art, and John Walker, who finds beauty, and meaning, in mud.
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Rapper-actor Common will make his Broadway debut in November
He starred in ‘Selma’ and co-wrote with John Legend the song, ‘Glory.’
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World, News
How to win an Ig Nobel prize? Design a crash-test moose dummy.
The sex lives of constipated scorpions and cute ducklings with an innate sense of physics also inspired the winners of this year’s prizes for comical scientific achievement.
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Greece’s Irene Papas, who earned Hollywood fame, dies at 93
Papas acted alongside Hollywood stars Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn and Kirk Douglas.
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‘Abbott Elementary’ back to school
If, while checking out this new sitcom, you suspect that there’s something familiar about it, you’d be right. Stay tuned. The players, starting with the star and show’s creator, the bubbly 32-year-old writer-creator Quinta Brunson, and the fast-moving cast that percolates around her, invite you into West Philadelphia’s Abbott Elementary, a comic oasis of learning […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Life & Culture, Maine, News, Schools and Education
Gift of $5 million will establish new arts lab at Colby College
The gift from 1985 graduate John Lyons, a film editor, and his wife, Susannah Gray, a retired pharmaceutical executive, was announced this week. The lab opens this fall for students.
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CNN revamping morning show with Lemon, Harlow and Collins
CNN says it is scrapping its ‘New Day’ morning show for a revamped program, set to debut later this year.