Wayne’s Betsy Connor Bowen sees her father’s manuscript – a memoir of serving alongside the British in Africa during World War II – published.
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Readers Pick the Oscars Results: A few good pickers
Only two entrants in our annual Readers Pick the Oscars poll guess all six of the top winners.
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Society Notebook: One splashy bash
Rippleffect, which offers kayaking opportunities to Maine youths, celebrates past, present and future at a gala Thursday night.
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Book Review: Looking through the lens of life’s end
The splendid ‘Benediction’ offers views of a Plains life in a plain-spoken style.
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Campaign spending soars in Oscar races
Forget about the price of gasoline: The real skyrocketing expense this year was the Oscar race. With two deep-pocketed studios locked into one of the closest best picture duels in recent memory and Academy Award voting extended by two weeks, the battle between “Argo” and “Lincoln” sparked what several Hollywood executives say is the costliest […]
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Art Review: ‘Everything’ pretty well describes it
How could anyone underestimate a show titled “Everything”? Yet it’s practically impossible not to underestimate Astrid Bowlby’s drawing installation on view and ever-growing in the University of Southern Maine Gorham art gallery. It’s an installation of simplified black ink drawings of easily identifiable things. Bowlby has taken requests from the public via written suggestions dropped […]
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Book Review: Rewriting a father’s obituary
With a journalist’s doggedness, the author sets out to discover what really happened to his dad.
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Society Notebook: Party Mardi
The Mardi Gras Ball raises $10,000 for Community Partners of Maine.
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In the Arts: Amsterdam artist’s first U.S. show a rare opportunity
Bates College Museum of Art in Lewiston is offering three shows; two of which I would call traditional. The third is so nontraditional that it challenges my expectations. To add weight to its novelty, a portion of that third — “Color at the Center” by Fransje Killaars — is not presented in the museum itself, […]