The Liberty Festival is bringing back fireworks this year, but without the usual festivities, and the Great Falls Brewfest has been canceled, with a fall beer event now in the works.
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Cannes Film Festival to return this summer after being canceled last year
Among the films competing for the Palme d’Or are the festival opener, ‘Annette,’ by Leox Carax and Sean Penn’s ‘Flag Day,’ in which he stars alongside his daughter, Dylan Penn, as a conman.
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Allegations of abuse by Robert Indiana resurface in ‘hush money’ court case
Sentenced for Social Security fraud, a Waldoboro man blames his downward spiral on the abuse he says he suffered by the late artist 4 decades ago.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Life & Culture
David Diop wins International Booker Prize with World War I story
The international contest is open to fiction in any language that has been translated into English.
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Portland Chamber Music Festival returns to in-person performances in August
The program for one of the concerts won’t be revealed beforehand.
Posted inLife & Culture, Maine, News
Seniors ‘getting back to living’ after more than a year of pandemic restrictions
Residents of retirement communities in Maine are resuming activities and visits, now that most are vaccinated.
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A direction home: Bob Dylan album returned 48 years late
A man living in San Francisco has mailed a Bob Dylan double album back to the Ohio library where it was overdue by 48 years.
Posted inNation & World, Religion and Values
Vatican law criminalizes abuse of adults by priests, laity
Pope Francis has changed Catholic Church law to explicitly criminalize the sexual abuse of adults by priests who abuse their authority
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Bawdy teen comedy on Hulu deftly tackles a mature theme
At first blush, the teen ride-along comedy “Plan B” feels like it’s following in the libidinous, boozy footsteps of “Superbad” and “Booksmart.” But there’s more going on in here than just hooking up. Indeed, a hookup is the inciting incident in this raunchy, observantly funny satire, wherein a straight-A student named Sunny (Kuhoo Verma) has […]
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‘A Quiet Place Part II’ might just restore your faith in sequels – and humanity
One thing’s for certain: “A Quiet Place Part II” is less, well, quiet than the first film. That should have been expected from the wicked, Mona Lisa smile on the face of Emily Blunt as her character racked her shotgun after shooting one of the monsters in the face at the close of the otherwise […]