PENDRED NOYCE
2011
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Society Notebook: Opera and Opulence
PORTopera and the Victoria Mansion make beautiful music together.
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Book Review: Gripped anew by a Swedish thriller
There be monsters in this gripping Swedish thriller. Unlikely monsters, but no less terrifying for that. The second book to feature dogged police detective Joona Linna, “The Hypnotist” begins with the gruesome murder of a family. Linna enlists the help of Erik Maria Bark, an acute-trauma expert. The detective wants the doctor to hypnotize the […]
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On the Move
NEW FACES • Jamie Broder, an attorney who specializes in the development of elderly housing and the financing of energy projects, recently joined Bernstein Shur as a shareholder. Broder, of Cumberland, has 36 years of legal experience in Washington, D.C., and Portland. He is general counsel to the nation’s fifth-largest nonprofit developer of housing for […]
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Oh, the stories they’ll tell!
Video games are evolving beyond the shoot-’em-up stage into an art form with plot lines resembling movies.
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Volt, Leaf both confident of gaining green-car buyers
The head-to-head battle of the early electric cars has just begun, but some trends are emerging.
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Mobile Society
Today’s topic: Do you play any Facebook games? Which ones, and have you spent any real-world money on them? Facebook is a powerhouse of the social networking world, and it’s no wonder games made for it have become lucrative and popular. Most are free to start, but offer ‘special’ items and upgrades for a price. […]
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Tech Bytes
New version of ‘Civilization’ ready for Facebook debut Long before “FarmVille” there was “Civilization,” the iconic computer game in which players build a civilized world over thousands of years. Now, the game’s designer, Sid Meier, is bringing his creation to Facebook. Available Wednesday, “Civ World” is a lighter, social version of the classic PC strategy […]
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Rotten-egg smell means bad battery
– DEAR TOM AND RAY: My wife’s car is an ’08 Toyota Sienna all-wheel-drive van with almost 70,000 miles on it. In the past few months, the whole garage has been stinking like rotten eggs. At first I thought it was catalytic converter smell, but the odor was coming from under the hood, not out […]
Posted inLetters, Opinion
Letters to the editor, July 10, 2011People obliged to stay healthy
When Americans act as if health is as an integral part of wealth as money is, we will have universal health care. The skeptic wiping his chin from corn dog juice quips, “It’s my right to do as I want, and this is America!” Here is an argument saying this is a matter of responsibility. […]