Oscar winner Hilary Swank is back, on a much smaller screen, but we have missed her and we’ll take her, no matter the size on the tube. Here is our Hilary in Tom McCarthy’s (“The Station Agent,” “Spotlight”) as Eileen Fitzgerald, an Irish-American newspaper reporter. Irish she is, with a sheet-metal attitude, a dockworker’s mouth, […]
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Got Tix: Where to find concert tickets to upcoming shows
Local indie-folk act GoldenOak set to perform at Rockland’s Strand Theatre this weekend.
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‘1883’ action first rate, powerful
Writer/director Taylor Sheridan has been on fire the last few years. He worked his way up from a small parts actor in shows like “Sons of Anarchy” to screenwriter and creator to hit shows like “Mayor of Kingstown” and “Yellowstone”. And in the year of flying Spiderman and buckets of sitcoms and rom coms and […]
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Maine author’s book to be used for movie on unsung civil rights figure
Phillip Hoose’s book ‘Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice’ won a National Book Award.
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Jon Stewart to receive Mark Twain lifetime award for comedy
The talk show host and political influencer has been named the 23rd recipient of the prize.
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Pioneering fashion journalist André Leon Talley dies at 73
André Leon Talley, the towering former creative director and editor at large of Vogue magazine, has died.
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Mike Devol talks about Greensky Bluegrass quintet, return to Maine
As most of you know by now, I really like discovering new-to-me acts and such is the case with this week’s band from Kalamazoo, Michigan: Greensky Bluegrass. This quintet of talented musicians (Anders Beck on dobro, Michael Arlen Bont on banjo, Dave Bruzza on guitar, Paul Hoffman on mandolin and Mike Devol on upright bass) […]
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Actor-comedian Louie Anderson undergoing cancer treatment
Anderson, an Emmy award winner in 2016, was diagnosed with a type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
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‘The Harder They Fall,’ ‘Insecure,’ H.E.R. nab NAACP awards nominations
The two-hour awards show, hosted by Anthony Anderson, will be broadcast on Feb. 26 on BET at 8 p.m. EST.
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Portland Museum of Art receives photography collection that ‘puts us at another level’
The gift of more than 600 photographs from Judy Glickman Lauder features works by world-famous artists.