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Waterville film fest to honor British actor Clive Owen

by Amy Calder May 29, 2025May 30, 2025

The Academy Award-nominated Owen, 60, has starred in many films including ‘Croupier,’ ‘Duplicity,’ ‘Closer’ and ‘Gosford Park.’

Health, Maine, News

Kennebunk doctor appeals verdict in overprescribing case

by Emily Allen May 29, 2025May 29, 2025

Dr. Merideth Norris was found guilty last year on 15 counts of writing unauthorized prescriptions to 5 patients.

Arts & Entertainment, Life & Culture, Maine, News

In a world of digital photos, these Maine photographers embrace the old-fashioned

by Gillian Graham May 29, 2025June 1, 2025

Nearly 170 years after tintype photography was invented, several local photographers are embracing the process and making portraits of Mainers at breweries, museums and by the ocean.

Arts & Entertainment, Life & Culture

The D.C. plane crash took her mom and sister. She turned to her piano.

by Dana Munro Washington Post May 29, 2025May 29, 2025

Olesya Taylor and her daughter Olivia, 12, both died in the January crash over Reagan National Airport. Anne Valerie Ter, 14, poured her grief into preparations for a piano concerto competition the following month.

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Life & Culture

In his new book of essays, Richard Russo has a lot on his mind

by Joan Silverman May 29, 2025May 28, 2025

As its title, ‘Life and Art’ suggests, and with humor and intelligence, the essays span culture, personal history, politics and family.

Arts & Entertainment, Books, Life & Culture

‘The Doorman’ and ‘The Let Them Theory’ top bestseller lists in Southern Maine

May 29, 2025May 30, 2025

Here are the week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.

Arts & Entertainment, Life & Culture, Review

South Portland’s Spring Point Ledge Light is a little world built for living

by Jon Calame May 29, 2025June 1, 2025

The lighthouse, dating to 1897, is a concrete and tidy illustration of the adage ‘form follows function.’

Arts & Entertainment, Life & Culture

Imagination Ball gives Children’s Museum a financial and emotional boost

by Amy Paradysz May 29, 2025May 29, 2025

Having covered nonprofit fundraisers weekly for the past 13 years, I have seen hundreds of auctions where ordinary people raise their hands — and their bid numbers — to protect the organizations and initiatives that matter to them. Never is that impulse stronger than when they feel that something they love, like the Children’s Museum […]