The filmmakers – including Scarlett Johansson, who serves as an executive producer – wanted to tell a story about female empowerment.
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Fresh out of medical school, they volunteered to help battle the coronavirus pandemic
What six med school graduates saw as the coronavirus tore through New York hospitals.
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In her latest storytelling pursuits, Maine author Tess Gerritsen finds worthy partners in crime
Her new book, ‘Choose Me,’ is her first collaboration with a co-author. And she’s teamed up with her son on ‘Magnificent Beast,’ a documentary film about pigs.
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A Smithsonian museum turns to art, not science, to hammer home a warning about Mother Nature
WASHINGTON — The animals depicted, directly or indirectly, in the National Museum of Natural History’s “Unsettled Nature” include birds, snakes and elephants. But the creature that dominates, while unseen in any of the artworks, is the one invoked in the show’s subtitle: “Artists Reflect on the Age of Humans.” The first art exhibition of its […]
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Art review: Bowdoin museum reopens with two exhibits that connect different times and places
The Brunswick college art museum reopened to the public on July 1.
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Best-Sellers: ‘Dead by Dawn,’ ‘Downeast’ top lists
FICTION Hardcover 1. “Dead by Dawn,” by Paul Doiron (Minotaur) 2. “Klara and the Sun,” by Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf) 3. “Damage,” by Caitlin Wahrer (Pamela Dorman) 4. “Whereabouts,” by Jhumpa Lahiri (Knopf) 5. “Great Circle,” by Maggie Shipstead (Knopf) 6. “The Midnight Library,” by Matt Haig (Viking) 7. “Project Hail Mary,” by Andy Weir (Ballantine) […]
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Society Notebook: Ogunquit museum’s garden party back in full bloom
Floral designers created arrangements based on works displayed in the museum.
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‘Summer of Soul’ is not just a great music documentary but an exhilarating time capsule
Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson makes a spellbinding directing debut with “Summer of Soul (… Or, When the Revolution Could Not be Televised),” a revelatory documentary that exhilarates and dismays in almost equal measure. In 1969, New York producer and impresario Tony Lawrence masterminded the Harlem Cultural Festival, a summer-long live music series that would be held […]
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Deep Water: ‘Vesper Sparrow,’ by Richard Foerster
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
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Horror film ‘The Forever Purge’ mixes graphic violence with a touch of social criticism
“The Forever Purge” is bookended with scenes of families making their way across the U.S.-Mexico border. As it opens, Adela and her husband, Juan (Ana de la Reguera and Tenoch Huerta), are being escorted by a guide, known as a coyote, into Texas from Mexico, where they’re fleeing cartel violence by cover of night. By […]