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Life & Culture
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Bestsellers: ‘Iron Flame,’ ‘Maine: A Love Story’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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Art review: Bowdoin grads featured in former teacher’s Brunswick gallery
John Bisbee shows the work of his former students at Fort Hill gallery in the Fort Andross mill complex.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
A university lecturer baffles his students, but writer Seth Rogoff captivates readers
Indirect and enigmatic, ‘The Kirschbaum Lectures’ is a wonder.
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Bedside table: ‘The Detective in the Dooryard: Reflections of a Maine Cop’ by Tim Cotton
Book recommendations from readers.
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and singer Cassie settle suit alleging abuse the day after it was filed
Cassie’s attorney released a statement saying they had reached a deal “to their mutual satisfaction” Friday evening, but no terms of the agreement were disclosed and no further statements would be issued.
Posted inAnimals, New England
Dogs are coming down with an unusual respiratory illness in several U.S. states
David Needle, senior veterinary pathologist at the University of New Hampshire’s New Hampshire Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, has been investigating the mysterious disease for almost a year.
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Snoop Dogg says he’s giving up ‘smoke.’ It caught some of his fans off guard
The rapper has been candid about his love for marijuana and launched several business ventures in the pot industry over the years – including his own cannabis brand, Leafs by Snoop.
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‘Trolls Band Together’ a kids’ film even millennial parents can love
“Trolls Band Together” is a glitter-encrusted variety pack of a movie. Packed with millennial boy-band humor, sibling love and snippets of pop songs, the third film in the Trolls franchise is an explosion of color tailored to a new generation of parents and their Gen Alpha kids. An advance screening was attended by what appeared […]
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Hunger Games prequel sings an edgier tune in ‘Songbirds & Snakes’
For all of their young-adult sheen and PG-13 restraint, the Hunger Games movie adaptations tend to triumph when they avoid sanding off the source material’s sharper edges. As envisioned by novelist Suzanne Collins, the dystopian realm of Panem – where combatants between the ages of 12 and 18 engage in an annual fight to the […]