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Book Review: Engaging game warden entangled in new mystery

Maine game warden Mike Bowditch is back. Introduced in Paul Doiron’s 2010 debut novel, “The Poacher’s Son,” Bowditch is only slightly more seasoned as a warden in the sequel, “Trespasser.” But he’s still impetuous, impassioned and inclined to stick his nose into murder investigations outside his jurisdiction — disregarding the damage it could heap on […]

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Arts Planner

• In Waterville, the Colby College Museum of Art hosts separate but related exhibitions that bring together photography from various periods in American history. “American Modern,” opening Saturday, showcases photographs from the 1930s by American masters Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White and Walker Evans with loans from major collections including the Metropolitan Museum, the National Gallery […]

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Arts Dispatches

CAPE ELIZABETH Land trust to hold auction of newly created artwork The Cape Elizabeth Land Trust will hold its Paint for Preservation 2011 on July 17. Participating artists will paint at designated public and private locations chosen to highlight Cape Elizabeth’s natural beauty. That evening, the newly created unframed artwork will be auctioned at a […]

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‘FarmVille’ game creator Zynga is going public

LOS ANGELES – Zynga, the online game maker behind “FarmVille” and other popular Facebook pastimes, is going public, the latest in a crop of high-valued Internet IPOs expected after LinkedIn Corp. showed that the online networking craze is a hot commodity on Wall Street. Zynga Inc. hopes to raise up to $1 billion in an […]

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Mobile Society

How do you feel about the Supreme Court decision to protect video games under the First Amendment? What do you think about violence in video games? Is the rating system is enough to protect children? The Supreme Court ruled last week that video games fall under free speech and will not be regulated by the […]

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Tech Bytes

Twitter co-founder is moving on Isaac “Biz” Stone is moving on from Twitter, just five years after co-founding the microblogging site that has become integral to the social media scene around the globe. Stone, 37, said on his blog that he will work with the company “for many years to come,” but that the most […]