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Dave Eggers’ children’s book ‘The Eyes & the Impossible’ wins prestigious Newbery Medal
The book tells the great adventure of a very fast dog.
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At 94, June Squibb is a leading lady at last in the Sundance breakout ‘Thelma’
June Squibb is perhaps the busiest 94-year-old in Hollywood.
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Amanda Peters picks up library medal for ‘The Berry Pickers,’ set in Maine
Her novel wins an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, presented by the American Library Association.
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So fetch: ‘Mean Girls’ reaches $11.7 million in second weekend
So far, it’s outpacing the tally for the 2004 original ‘Mean Girls.’
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Marlena Shaw, ‘California Soul’ singer, dead at 81
Shaw, a charismatic and wide-ranging vocalist, was best known for 1969’s ‘California Soul,’ which has endured as a widely popular and often sampled song.
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Reformed mobster wanted ‘one last score’ when he stole Judy Garland’s ruby slippers
Terry Jon Martin’s defense attorney finally revealed the 76-year-old’s motive for the 2005 theft from the Judy Garland Museum in the late actor’s hometown of Grand Rapids, Minnesota.
Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
Plants are learning how to self-pollinate – and that’s not good
Pansies have figured out how as a response to the dire drop in pollinator numbers, but self-pollination produces weaker plants.
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Early uses of color printing come into focus at Osher Map Library
‘A Pageant of Spectacles: Chromolithography in America’ is on view in Portland through June 29.
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Grand jury indicts Alec Baldwin in fatal shooting of cinematographer on movie set in New Mexico
Special prosecutors brought the case before a grand jury in Santa Fe, New Mexico, this week, reviving a dormant case against the A-list actor.