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Arts & Entertainment
Take Heart: A Conversation in Poetry
Anyone who has had trouble starting the car on winter mornings in Maine will find encouragement in today’s poem by Stuart Kestenbaum of Deer Isle.
Book Review: ‘The Invention of Wings’ beautiful and uplifting
The author of the best-selling ‘Secret Lives of Bees’ is back with a tale of slavery.
Book Review: Drinking, thinking in ‘Echo Spring’
Olivia Laing’s look at writers and alcoholism is can’t-put-it-down terrific.
Music: It’s the music that moves ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’
The Coen brothers team with T Bone Burnett again to create a lyrical backdrop to their film set during the height of the ’60s folk scene in New York’s Greenwich Village.
Diane Keaton, Formula One driver among Golden Globe surprises
Woody Allen will receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 71st annual Golden Globe Awards.
Maine writer Jason Anthony wins prestigious honor, relishes his life on the edge
The Maine Arts Commission named him the state’s Literary Fellow for 2014, an honor that also brings a $13,000 stipend.
Society Notebook: A frigid Lobster Dip raises $90,000 for Special Olympics
It takes a hardy soul to run into the Atlantic when the air temperature is 20 degrees. But more than 250 people did so at the Lobster Dip at Old Orchard Beach on New Year’s Day. “It was an awesome experience,” said Meghan Harriman of North Waterboro. “I’d do it again for the adrenaline rush. […]
Movie Review: Hercules muscles his way back to the big screen
He has been immortalized on film for more than 50 years.
Book Review: Lost men from WWII subject of ‘Vanished’
Author Wil S. Hylton trains a reporter’s eye on the skies over the Pacific – and on grieving families at home.