The president highlights his record on religious liberty as he addresses a group of more than 5,000 Christians in Miami.
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Posted inNation & World, Religion and Values
United Methodist Church plans to split over gay marriage
A group of church leaders from around the world and across ideological divides proposes an amicable separation.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World, Uncategorized
Ex-HBO head to make TV shows, movies for Apple’s streaming service
Richard Plepler has signed an exclusive deal to produce content for the iPhone maker’s Apple TV Plus.
Posted inAnimals, Maine, News, Outdoors
State biologists to capture and collar 130 moose in research effort
It’s the centerpiece of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife’s six-year moose survival study.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World
Study finds 2019 was a ‘banner year’ for female filmmakers
Women directed 12, just 10.6 percent, of 2019’s top 100-grossing films – more than any year before.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World
Ex-partner of Whitney Houston’s late daughter found dead in hotel room
Paramedics were called to Nick Gordon’s hotel room in Maitland, a suburb of Orlando, early Wednesday morning.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Court will decide if defacing a $120,000 banana wall was a crime or artistic expression
Roderick Webber said he’s willing to let a court of law decide whether scrawling a reference to pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein on the wall that once held the duct-taped banana is defacement or a political statement.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Golden Globes will serve plant-based meal at awards ceremony
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association said Thursday that it wants the initiative to raise environmental awareness about food consumption and waste.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, News
Filmmaker uses home movies to show life in 20th-century Maine
‘Maine’s Home Movies’ will air at 9 p.m. Thursday on Maine Public Television and again at 2 p.m. Saturday.
Posted inLife & Culture, Movie Review J.P. Devine
J.P. Devine Movie Review: ‘Little Women’ popcorn for the ages
Most film critics claim Mervyn LeRoy’s 1949 Technicolor production as the very best, but modern reviewers take umbrage at that claim and have given Greta Gerwig’s 2019 offering a big hug.