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Bestsellers: ‘Three Days in June,’ ‘How We Learn to Be Brave’

March 7, 2025March 5, 2025

The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.

Arts & Entertainment, Life & Culture

Society Notebook: A Company of Girls presents its first runway fashion show

by Amy Paradysz March 7, 2025March 10, 2025

If you’ve seen an episode of “Project Runway” where the contestants visit a museum for inspiration, imagine that — except swap out the professional designers and judges for middle school girls designing and sewing for the first time and a roomful of supportive friends and family. That was the scene when a dozen young designers […]

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‘No Other Land’ won an Oscar without U.S. distribution. Now what?

by Sonia Rao Washington Post March 7, 2025March 6, 2025

A filmmaker behind the Israeli-Palestinian documentary about forced displacement in the West Bank said U.S. distributors’ reluctance is ‘completely political.’

Arts & Entertainment, Life & Culture

Who is the real Hank Azaria? For a while, even he didn’t know.

by Travis M. Andrews Washington Post March 7, 2025March 6, 2025

Azaria has made a career twisting his vocal cords into the voices of various ‘Simpsons’ characters. Now he’s twisting them in the shape of the Boss as the frontman of a Springsteen cover band.

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Tove Jansson’s ‘Sun City’ takes up a rare subject in fiction: Old age

by B.D. McClay Special to The Washington Post March 7, 2025March 5, 2025

Jansson’s novel, recently reissued, follows a group of residents at a retirement community in Florida.

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Portland actor who started in community theater is thriving on the small screen

by Ray Routhier March 7, 2025March 7, 2025

Holly Hinchliffe began acting at Lyric Music Theater in South Portland, and has also performed in high-profile TV shows like ‘Chicago Fire,’ ‘Law & Order: SVU’ and ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.’

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In a powerful new book, a hero of the Civil Rights era tells her story to children

by Amy MacDonald March 7, 2025March 5, 2025

Claudette Colvin co-wrote the book, about bus boycotts and a case that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, with Portland writer Phillip Hoose.