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BOOKS: ‘Revenge Wears Prada’: The devil’s in the details

Who said fashion is all about the next new thing? Author Lauren Weisberger revisits her over-the-top characters from “The Devil Wears Prada,” including top magazine editor and ice queen Miranda Priestly, 10 years later in her latest novel, “Revenge Wears Prada: The Devil Returns.” It turns out, other than a few fleeting trends that clearly define the setting as 2013, things haven’t changed all that much.

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The folk-holler band THE GHOST OF PAUL REVERE to make Mainely Brews debut June 29

It’s always fun discovering new acts, especially ones from our own state. Such is the case with the quintet of Griffin Sherry (guitar and vocals), Max Davis (banjo and vocals), Matt Young (harmonica and mandolin), Matt Baker (mandolin) and Sean McCarthy (bass and vocals) better known as The Ghost of Paul Revere. This Portland-based group will perform at Mainely Brews Saturday and, to that end, a phoner was arranged with McCarthy to learn a little more about the band.

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‘The Internship’

Every film critic/reviewer has a soft spot in his heart for movies like Shawn Levy’s “The Internship.” It’s like a vacation from the work of having to sit up and pay attention to the detail in serious, important films. “The Internship” is the movie version of bowling. There’s nothing to think about. You get the right shoes, the rules are set in concrete, you have beer and pizza while watching the smart-ass guys make all the gutter balls. It’s just fun. “The Internship” is fun … kind of.

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BOOKS: ‘Zero Hour’ exciting addition to NUMA series

Clive Cussler and Graham Brown have delivered a nonstop action thriller with “Zero Hour,” the latest in the NUMA (National Underwater and Marine Agency) Files series. Kurt Austin attends a lecture in Sydney, and soon finds himself immersed in another life-and-death struggle to save the world.

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BOOKS: ‘Conspiracy of Faith’ a chilling Nordic thriller

A message in a bottle propels Detective Carl Morck and his team from Department Q, a special branch of the Copenhagen Police Department that examines cold-case crimes, into a bizarre case in Jussi Adler-Olsen’s latest page-turning psychological thriller, “A Conspiracy of Faith.”