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Psychologist hired by Depp says Heard has personality disorders
She says she reached her diagnosis during 12 hours of interviews and from reviewing her mental-health records.
Police release videos in probe of Baldwin film-set shooting
Data files released by the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s office include a video of investigators debriefing actor and producer Alec Baldwin within hours of the fatal shooting.
After decades painting in private, Bowdoinham artist readies his first exhibit
A dozen paintings and one sculpture by David Mann will be on display at the Merrymeeting Arts Center in Bowdoinham, beginning Friday.
Deep Water: ‘Unplowed Land,’ by Matthew Bernier
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
‘The First Lady’ turns three compelling women into Emmy bait
The new East Wing drama, “The First Lady,” exists to illustrate a fact most of us intuitively know: The women asked to play hostess, decorator, fashion plate and champion for unobjectionable causes as part of each administration’s political theater tend to be much more interesting and complicated than the manicured images they project. That’s certainly […]
Violence and revenge define and ultimately undercut ‘The Northman’
“The Northman,” an ambitious deep dive into 10th-century Viking myth by Robert Eggers, is many movies at once: Bold and beautiful, bloody and completely bonkers, it marks a visionary and visceral high point in the post-“Game of Thrones” action-fantasy sweepstakes, whose main metric of success seems to be packing in as many beheadings, blood feuds […]
Green Plate Special: Right-sized bagels for a healthier you
Cathy Barrow’s latest cookbook lavishes love upon the bagel and restores it to its proper dimensions.
‘Tasha’ is a bracing account of one woman’s final years
Brian Morton imbues his memoir with a wry, pained tenderness.
Art review: Check out these two smaller venues’ new digs and new shows
Ocean House Gallery & Frame has moved to South Portland, and Mayo Street Arts has reopened after renovations.