Greater Portland Bulletin Board Saturday 7/18 Yard Sale and Barbecue, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. St. Luke’s Cathedral, 143 State St., Portland, 772-5434. Thursday 7/23 Community Fun Day, music and picnic festival sponsored by HearME Now, 5-8 p.m., free, Preble Street Parking Area/Back Cove Trail, Portland, hear-me-now.org. Ongoing Casco Bay Newcomers Club, for people new to […]
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Arts Calendar: July 15-28
Greater Portland Books/Authors Monday 7/20 “The Fisherman,” discussion with author Vaughn Hardhacker, 6:30 p.m., free, Freeport Community Library, 10 Library Drive, Freeport, 865-3307, freeportlibrary.com. Tuesday 7/21 “Chantarelle,” book release reception with author G.A. Morgan, 5-7 p.m., free, Islandport Press, 247 Portland St., Yarmouth, 846-3344, islandportpress.com. Film “The Last Sentence,” Friday, July 17, 6:30 p.m., and Saturday and […]
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Out & About: Focus on 2 Brunswick music festivals
Alfresco bluegrass has long been part of Maine’s summer arts scene, and the genre’s defining pick and twang will be heard this weekend in Brunswick. Located on a campground in the rural southern sector of town, the White’s Beach Bluegrass Festival is a two-day affair that primarily features Maine and New Hampshire artists. Derek Bermel […]
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Intentionally Unreasonable: The ugly truth behind beauty pageants
Beauty pageants are dreadful events and soul-crushing experiences – once you look beyond the thin veneers of cemented smiles and polyester sashes. They perpetuate and promote the very worst of our human nature: delusion, denial, voyeurism, objectification and narcissism. I know first-hand how depressing and dysfunctional these events are when witnessed up close, because I […]
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Dishin' That: The 7-year(-old) itch and how to scratch it
Even though he’s From Away, my Blue-Eyed Yankees Fan fancies himself a member of the Greater Portland Welcome Wagon. “Yeah, my girl lives up in Portland,” he’ll say whenever Maine is mentioned, regardless of the context. “She’s like a restaurant and bar freak. When wees (we) go out, she can’t go to just one place. […]
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Letter: McDonald-Smith needs a history lesson
Julia McDonald-Smith is long on opinion, short on substance. “An Independence Day gift from the pulpit” (The Right View, July 6) cites a priest’s homily, which, save for faulting the abortion of “3,000 innocent lives per day,” otherwise, from McDonald-Smith’s summary, appears to merely rehearse the U.S. Catholic bishops’ extended sore-loser “religious liberty” effort to […]
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The Universal Notebook: The life-changing magic of making a mess
One of my daughters is reading and mastering the rituals of “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing,” by Marie Kondo, a book that has spent 35 weeks on The New York Times Best Sellers list and sold 2 million copies worldwide. I could have written that book. Some […]
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Abby's Road: Serena Williams aces the part of role model
Dear Serena, A few months ago, my daughter asked my husband and me why women are not allowed to be president of the United States. She was 6 at the time. We responded with a question of our own: What in the world led her to that conclusion? Her answer was matter-of-fact: We had just […]
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Letter: McDonald-Smith can't tolerate religious freedom
I wonder why Julie McDonald-Smith is so intent on insisting that our country is a Christian nation (“An Independence Day gift from the pulpit,” The Right View, July 6). Is she so insecure in her own beliefs that she needs to buttress them via relegating others to second-class citizens? Maybe she feels that would make […]
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Letter: Columnist wrong about history, religious freedom
How can 250 words address the sanitized, wishful, Christianized, primary-school version of America presented by July McDonald-Smith (“An Independence Day gift from the pulpit,” The Right View, July 6)? 1 — A Judeo-Christian background has no monopoly on acting righteously. Other religious approaches, personal honor and integrity, and the Golden Rule all provide a guide […]