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Bestsellers: ‘James,’ ‘Maine: A Love Story’
The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
Portland Museum of Art hangs its future on fate of neighboring building
On May 6, the City Council will take up the question of whether the former Children’s Museum at 142 Free St. can be demolished. Working toward an ambitious expansion, the PMA hasn’t said what it will do if the structure can’t be torn down.
‘Lucky’ is a delightful trip through the 20th century’s greatest hits
Open Jane Smiley’s new novel, “Lucky,” and thank God for the internet, because if you’re like me (well, poor you), you will want to look up and listen to song after song. The quirky fictional autobiography of a moderately successful singer-songwriter in the folk-rock mode of what the narrator, Jodie, calls the “four J’s” – […]
Harvey Weinstein hospitalized after his return to New York from upstate prison
The lawyer said he’s scheduled to meet with Weinstein on Monday. He added that he plans to tell a judge when Weinstein goes to court on Wednesday in Manhattan that a retrial should occur after Labor Day.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs files motion to dismiss some claims in a sexual assault lawsuit
Sean “Diddy” Combs has pushed back against a woman’s lawsuit that accused him of sexual assault
Chicago appeals court rejects R. Kelly’s challenge of 20-year sentence
Jurors in 2022 convicted the Grammy Award-winning R&B singer, born Robert Sylvester Kelly, on 3 charges of producing child porn and 3 charges of enticement of minors for sex.
What if Nancy Drew were a chic Black woman? That’s ‘Diarra from Detroit.’
Diarra Kilpatrick says the show is a love letter to her hometown and time spent in front of her grandmother’s TV watching ‘Murder, She Wrote.’
Bernie Williams is back in center – only this time Lincoln Center for New York Philharmonic debut
The former New York Yankee performed a work he composed in his second career as a classical guitarist.
Calling all Swifties: Take our quiz and see photos of the star in Kennebunkport in 2010
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