Many people were thwarted by best supporting actor; Sylvester Stallone was the favorite, but Mark Rylance won.
2016
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Television: ‘Downton Abbey’ finale: Keep calm and watch on
It’s not giving too much away to reveal that Edith finds happiness in Sunday’s episode – as does just about everybody else in the series, with the exception of the family dog, who had the misfortune of being named Isis.
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Art Review: Two collaborative exhibitions push boundaries
At the University of Southern Maine and the University of New England, groups of artists combine for something new.
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Society Notebook: Love Really Counts, and hundreds gather to prove it
The auction and dinner benefits the Center for Grieving Children
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Movies: A black director, a white author, and their differing accounts of rebel slave Nat Turner
‘The Birth of a Nation’ is based on William Styron’s book.
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Carving ice or wood, artist Duncan Hewitt’s love of hockey shows through
The Hollis sculptor shows his skates and other works in a solo show at the Portland Museum of Art through Sept. 4.
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Our View: No room on Maine ballot for minimum-wage contest
Groups that have always opposed any pay hike are now offering a ‘competing measure’ in order to derail a proposal that would benefit low-paid Mainers.
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Letter to the editor: Lawmakers should support solar energy net metering
Your Feb. 17 article, “As solar power grows in Maine, so does tension over its future shape and direction,” covered the field but missed a few key points. An important correction is that all ratepayers benefit from solar net metering. Here’s how. My wife and I installed solar panels at our own considerable expense. Excess […]
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Letter to the editor: Bars profit more than breweries, distilleries on beer, liquor
As someone who works in the craft beer/distilling industries in Portland, I want to offer a rebuttal to your recent article regarding tasting rooms supposedly operating at an advantage over bars (“As brewery tasting rooms thrive, traditional bars in a froth,” Page A1, Feb. 28). Bars don’t make alcohol. Nor do they have to spend […]
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Letter to the editor: Eliminate ‘pro-choice,’ replace it with ‘pro-life’
Lois Kahn (“Letter to the editor: Too many abortion foes are pro-birth but not pro-life,” Feb. 19) has voiced a sentiment I have harbored in my heart since my opinionated teen years. Her letter hit the nail squarely, and I am thankful that she was able to share the excerpt from the Bill Moyers TV […]