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Academy Awards set 2023 Oscars for March 12

by associated press May 13, 2022May 13, 2022

Next year’s Academy Awards will take place March 12, 2 weeks earlier than this year’s Oscars.

Arts & Entertainment, Life & Culture, Maine

Nonprofit board fires DaPonte String Quartet musicians, changes mission

by Eric Russell May 13, 2022May 13, 2022

The group that has managed the ensemble for decades told the quartet’s members this week that they would no longer be paid as salaried musicians.

Arts & Entertainment, Nation & World

Star of ‘The Bear Whisperer’ accused of illegal bear kill

by Associated Press May 12, 2022May 13, 2022

Harvey Neil Anthony of Maine killed a black bear in Alaska’s Kenai Fjords National Park, prosecutors allege.

Arts & Entertainment, Nation & World

Mario Batali acquittal underscores perils of #MeToo cases

by PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press May 11, 2022May 12, 2022

Legal experts and victims’ advocates say celebrity chef Mario Batali’s acquittal on sexual assault charges underscores the inherent difficulties of prosecuting such cases nearly five years into the #MeToo era.

Arts & Entertainment, Nation & World, Politics

Jen Psaki, known for professionalism, ending tenure as a top White House messenger

by WILL WEISSERT Associated Press May 11, 2022May 11, 2022

Psaki is leaving as White House press secretary on Friday after having answered reporters’ questions nearly every weekday of the almost 500 days that President Biden has been in office.

Arts & Entertainment, Nation & World

Director Wim Wenders making a film about fancy public restrooms in Japan

by YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press May 11, 2022May 11, 2022

The hero of the renowned German director’s movie will be a sanitation worker who cleans the toilets, seeing his job as a craft and a service for the people.

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Confounded Bridge to bring sounds of Led Zeppelin music to Madison

May 11, 2022May 9, 2022

As a fan of classic rock, it’s probably no surprise that I’m a Led Zeppelin fanatic — I guess it’s almost mandatory — so when I saw that the Somerset Abbey had a new-to-me group coming in called Confounded Bridge to play the music of that legendary band, I just had to delve a little […]