Life & Culture
South Portland actor who took off in original ‘Top Gun’ has left Hollywood behind
Whip Hubley played a hot-shot fighter pilot in the 1986 movie but is in no hurry to see the sequel, which opens Friday. These days, he acts with southern Maine theater groups and works at a construction firm.
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Did Harry Styles record part of his latest album in Maine?
Maine-raised songwriter Amy Allen co-wrote one of the tracks on the British popstar's new album, but fans think there's another Maine connection — to a farm in Monmouth.
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Ray Liotta, ‘Goodfellas’ and ‘Field of Dreams’ star, dies
The actor, who was 67, died in his sleep Wednesday in the Dominican Republic, where he was filming a movie.
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An unassuming but uniting force in the British electro-pop band, Fletcher's keyboard sounds influenced Techno and other musical styles.
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Just days before his death Yes had announced that due to health issues longtime drummer, Alan White would not take part in the band’s upcoming tour. He was 72.
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Tickets are on sale now for folk trio Caamp at Thompson's Point in August.
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Tom Cruise returns as Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, in a sequel that feels familiar and new in just the right proportions.
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Former reality TV star Josh Duggar, whose lawyers sought a 5-year sentence, maintains his innocence.
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The 'American Pie' singer and Camden resident was in the lineup to perform at the Grand Ole Night of Freedom concert Saturday.
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The goal is to start performing again in September, the band posted on social media.
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A veteran of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, he was tasked by director George Lucas with making the film's ships look realistic but with "a comic book nobility."
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She was known for her keen eye for art and gracious nature.
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The concert raised $360,000 and intends to raise more from a web stream of the performances.
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The Boss is hitting the road again.
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The legendary actor is getting a 2022 honor for lifetime achievement in the theater, making it her sixth.
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He played one of two boys who send beachgoers into a panic by swimming around with a fake shark's fin.
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She co-wrote the 'Harry's House' ballad 'Matilda' with Styles, Thomas Hull and Tyler Johnson.
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See April Verch and Cody Walters, Sandy River Ramblers and The Wallflowers this weekend.
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Nick Stone, a corporate lawyer for decades, started writing poetry in retirement. His second book, 'Seaward: A Lyrical Memior,' was published last month, eight months after he was diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer.
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Work by nine graduates of the Master of Fine Art program will be on display from May 27 through June 17.
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These smaller Greater Portland venues are hosting Maine musicians throughout the summer.
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The Brunswick theater is renting the movies it's shown throughout the years.
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McKinnon joined 'SNL' in 2012, making her one of the most veteran players in the company.
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Like other recent sequels, the second movie spinoff of the popular TV series caters to die-hard fans, at the expense of more casual viewers.
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The current top-selling fiction and nonfictions books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
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A darkly comic novel about an afterlife with no harps, no wings, only bad coffee and a job at the umbrella factory. 'Really? This again?' the protagonist grumbles.
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When this Maine author gave island mishap a much closer look, he turned a true story about neighbors into a picture book.
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Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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Cove Street Arts, the Maine Jewish Museum and two colleges are focusing on photography this spring and summer.
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Maine Historical Society gave its Maine History Maker Award to Severin Beliveau and Harold Pachios of Preti Flaherty.
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Book recommendations from readers.
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The ninth of Thomas Perry's Jane Whitefield novels, which includes a pursuit through Maine's 100 Mile Wilderness, mostly delivers.
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Friends identify the victim as 26-year-old Nathan Avery Edwards, who recorded, produced and mixed music under the name Avery Drift.
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A more than 3,000-year-old gold signet ring was discovered in 1927 by Italian archaeologists in a Mycenaean grave near the ancient city of Ialysos on Rhodes.
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Pete Davidson will officially depart ‘Saturday Night Live’ after the Season 47 finale airs this weekend, according to a report.
