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Arts & Entertainment, Books

Bestsellers: ‘The Women,’ ‘The Creative Act’

March 24, 2024March 20, 2024

The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.

Animals, Maine, Nation & World

Bird flu is decimating seal colonies. Scientists don’t know how to stop it

by Patrick Whittle Associated Press March 22, 2024March 22, 2024

Seal die-offs from the bird flu have been detected everywhere from New England to Chile.

Arts & Entertainment, Maine, News

Cumberland woman kept quiet about her talent as a kid. Now, she’s singing on ‘American Idol’

by Ray Routhier March 22, 2024March 28, 2024

Julia Gagnon, a senior at the University of Southern Maine, wanted to be on the internationally televised talent show as a way of sharing something with her birth mother in Guatemala. She’ll make her first appearance Sunday.

The television series "Seinfeld" streaming on the Netflix website.

Arts & Entertainment, Business

‘Get out!’: Jerry Seinfeld is a billionaire

by Annie Massa and Vernal Galpotthawela Bloomberg March 22, 2024March 22, 2024

A key portion of Seinfeld’s fortune comes from a series of syndication deals for his sitcom.

Arts & Entertainment, Nation & World, News

Kate, Princess of Wales, says she has cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy

by BRIAN MELLEY and JILL LAWLESS Associated Press March 22, 2024March 22, 2024

Her condition was disclosed in a video message recorded on Wednesday and broadcast Friday, coming after weeks of speculation on social media about her whereabouts.

Arts & Entertainment

Pattie Boyd’s trove of treasures from her life with Eric Clapton and George Harrison nets $3.6 million

by Associated Press March 22, 2024March 22, 2024

The collection, which went on public display at Christie’s London headquarters last Friday, provided a glimpse into the heart of the 1960s and 70s counterculture.

Animals, Nation & World

Cupid the peacock was shot with an arrow. Neighbors united to help him.

by Sydney Page Special to The Washington Post March 21, 2024March 21, 2024

‘When I saw the extent of the injury, it’s a miracle he’s alive,’ said Donny Block, who worked with neighbors in Exeter, California, to get Cupid into surgery.

Arts & Entertainment, Review

‘Love Lies Bleeding’: Kristen Stewart in a radically ripped romance

by Jessica Kiang Special to The Washington Post March 21, 2024

It is 1989 New Mexico in Rose Glass’s “Love Lies Bleeding,” and it is also not. Despite the radio reporting the fall of the Berlin Wall and some very “Just Say No”-era drug busts, this is a mythic 1980s and a mythic USA, peopled by venal desperados pulled from the mildewed pages of a 1950s […]