Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond’s (That magic team who gave us “Some Like It Hot”) great, immortal love story begins with a wide shot of C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon) appearing as one of what appears to be 300 other corporate lemmings, sitting at 300 desks, punching out numbers on 300 tabulators. It ends with an […]
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Posted inOn this date
Dec. 29, 1987: New $2.6 million Oakland business park set, police hunt for missing Winslow woman, and the spring floods in central Maine voted Maine’s top story of ’87
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Princeton University plans Toni Morrison tribute in 2023
The author, who died in 2019 at 88, won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993.
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Dec. 28, 1948: New Farmingdale grammar school to be dedicated, President Truman says some Russian leaders anxious to end Cold War, and bill to ban fireworks in Maine headed to legislature next month
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Posted inLife & Culture, On Music Lucky Clark
Paul D’Alessio talks about son music genre
It’s not often that I get to go with a new-to-me genre, so it was with a little trepidation that I approached today’s band: Primo Cubano, which performs son music, the primary contributor to the blend of Latin styles known as salsa. I set up an interview with Paul D’Alessio of the Portland-based group to […]
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Dec. 27, 1957: No more strip tease acts in Maine night clubs? Also, farmstead burns in Belgrade, and Gov. Muskie’s daughter celebrates first birthday
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Dec. 26, 1985: Church brightens Christmas for 250 with hot meal in Waterville, settlement reached in 6-year dispute at Oak Grove-Coburn School in Vassalboro, and we go behind-the-scenes at how the pizza is made at Domino’s
Visit Centralmaine.com/archive to view nearly 200 years’ worth of history at your fingertips.
Posted inFood & Dining, Vegan Kitchen
Surveys, studies and reports this year point to an increasingly vegan world
And some newly uncovered information even shows that humans historically ate less meat than we thought.
Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
Chores are barely done, but never too early to shop for next year’s gardening season
Some great local catalogs encourage buying and daydreaming on cold winter days.
Posted inFood & Dining, Green plate special, Recipes
‘Twas a greener night before Christmas
Out with the sugar plums, in with the recycled wrapping paper. (But we do like that renewable-energy-powered reindeer vehicle.)