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Arts & Entertainment, Books

Best-sellers: ‘Liberation Day, ‘Lydia Maria Child’

November 13, 2022November 11, 2022

The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.

Society Notebook: Girls on the Run celebrates 10 years of putting sneakers on the ground

by Amy Paradysz November 13, 2022November 11, 2022

The Sneaker Soiree raised money for programs aimed at empowering Maine girls.

Arts & Entertainment, Books

Book review: The search for meaning in a deconstructed library

by Jeri Theriault November 13, 2022November 12, 2022

The prose poems in ‘Antique Densities’ are fantastical yet reassuringly matter-of-fact.

Arts & Entertainment, Life & Culture, Local & State

‘True creative’ from Dresden discovers talent for painting during the pandemic

by Eric Russell November 13, 2022November 17, 2022

In need of a new creative outlet, musician and carpenter Scott Elliot started painting in early 2020 and hasn’t stopped. Now, people are buying his work.

Arts & Entertainment

Alec Baldwin sues in movie set killing

by Associated Press November 12, 2022

He says he has lost opportunities and been fired from jobs because of the shooting.

Arts & Entertainment, Nation & World

Kevin Conroy, the constant voice of Batman for a generation of fans, dies at 66

by Christie D'Zurilla Los Angeles Times November 11, 2022November 11, 2022

He penned the story of his life in ‘Finding Batman,’ laying out the struggles he faced as an openly gay man amid the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s in an industry that was far less accepting of homosexuality than it is today.

Arts & Entertainment

‘Love Sick’: Trove of Bob Dylan’s teenage love letters for sale

by MARK PRATT Associated Press November 10, 2022November 10, 2022

The missives have never before been made public and shed light on a period in the folk-rock icon’s life for which not much firsthand information is known.