Based on the comic strip by Lincoln Peirce, the animated TV version of ‘Big Nate’ debuts this week. A series based on his ‘Max & the Midknights’ books is also in the works.
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Posted inFood & Dining, Green plate special, Recipes
Some of us love trash, and some of us love beets…
Happy Valentine’s, Oscar the Grouch (and the rest of you, too). Please sing along!
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World
Ex-rep Anthony Weiner to host radio show with Curtis Sliwa
The disgraced former congressman and the founder of the Guardian Angels will argue politics on a show in New York called ‘The Left vs. The Right.’
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Review: Hugh Jackman steals ‘The Music Man’ on Broadway
Hugh Jackman is playing one of musical theater’s greatest con men on Broadway but he’s not fooling anyone: He’s the real deal, says Associated Press critic Mark Kennedy
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Maine
Author Tess Gerritsen’s documentary about pigs to air on Maine Public
‘Magnificent Beast,’ a collaboration with her filmmaker son Josh Gerritsen, is scheduled to be shown Feb. 24.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, New England
Massachusetts game show winner’s big prize is a trip to New Hampshire
Catherine Graham confessed she was hoping for somewhere she hadn’t already been to ‘a million times.’
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Medical examiner: Bob Saget died from unseen blow to head
A toxicology analysis didn’t show any illicit drugs or toxins in Saget’s body.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Things to Do
Got Tix: Where to find concert tickets to upcoming shows
Grab tickets to see teen singer, dancer and YouTube star JoJo Siwa in Portland on Feb. 21.
Posted inJ.P. Devine, Movie Review J.P. Devine, Things to Do
‘The Defiant Ones’ worth seeing, if only to honor the great Poitier, Kramer
Stanley Kramer gave us “High Noon” 1952 and “Judgement at Nuremberg” 1961 and that alone is enough to cast Kramer in gold. His “The Defiant Ones” in 1958 wasn’t in the same league with those brilliant pieces. Tony Curtis got to play chain-gang baddie Johnny Jackson, a snarling racist small-time criminal, in a time when […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Olympics, Sports
NBC defends Shiffrin coverage, suggests sexism by critics
For the second straight Olympics, the emotional health of top athletes has become a focus of discussion.