“Safe House,” as all Bourne fans know by now, is of course, a major misnomer. For bad guys who are taken there to be water boarded, or for good guys who flee there to escape the tentacles of evil-doers, it’s the last rooming house where you would want to be a guest.

WATERVILLE — Carolyn Currie will perform at 7 p.m. Friday night at the Waterville Opera House Studio Theater, 93 Main St. Tickets cost $12. For more information, call 873-7000 or visit operahouse.org.

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Scott Turow’s 1987 “Presumed Innocent” was a watershed for the legal thriller, delivering what started out as a typical plot that evolved into a tense look at the law, ethics and revenge, as it moved to a jaw-dropping finale. Readers will have the same reaction to William Landay’s superb “Defending Jacob,” which begins as a typical legal thriller then matures into a suspense-laden insider’s view of the law, ethics and familial bonds.

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It may be hard to believe, but there actually are people who are so obsessed with murder and death they collect “murderabilia,” especially crime scene photographs of dead bodies.

We’ve waited a long time for winter to arrive.
It’s time to stop waiting and celebrate, even though this winter is but a small snow-shadow of itself.