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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TRAVELIN’ MAINE(RS): Alex Parkers Steak House: Perfectly grilled, generous portions
This Gardiner restaurant is going to need a much larger space if the owners continue to serve creative food in the style of the once-plentiful, now-rare steakhouse. Diners will love it!
BOOKS: ‘ … nothing more than a bloop single.’
How much wealth does it take to be above the law? What rules come with being a member of the privileged class? Those are among the questions posed in Walter Walker’s “Crime of Privilege.”
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.
TRAVELIN’ MAINE(RS): In Boothbay Harbor, you can have your crab cakes and eat them, too
A rainy Memorial Day weekend didn’t dampen our spirits, probably because we had a comfortable room right on the harbor, three great restaurants to try and a host of shops and galleries to explore.
‘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.
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: “The Four Season Farm Gardener’s Cookbook” and “Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles”
Vegetables are not only fun to grow, they are great to eat, too. And nobody tells how to do both better than Barbara Damrosch and her husband, Eliot Coleman.
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.
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.”
TRAVELIN’ MAINE(RS): Time to plan your summer getaways and adventures
If you are summer dreaming, it’s time to make plans! Here are some of our favorite getaways and adventures — enough to keep you very busy this summer, right here in Maine.