After slogging through the first two segments of Melissa McCarthy and husband Ben Falcone’s new Netflix series, I would add that there are additional idiots on God’s list, and that would be everyone connected to this train wreck, with the notable exception of Ms. McCarthy. Not even God herself would diminish the gifts of this […]
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Posted inAnimals, Arts & Entertainment, Life & Culture
Sound off! Trumpet is 1st bloodhound to win Westminster show
The competition drew more than 3,000 purebred dogs, ranging from Affenpinschers to Yorkshire terriers.
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Posted inOn Music Lucky Clark, Things to Do
John Haitt, his band The Goners to perform June 28 in Waterville
Back in 1990, an album (one of the 26 he released) called “Stolen Moments” had a huge impact on my life, and ever since then a goal of mine was to chat with the gentleman who released that A&M Records album: John Hiatt. Having tried on several occasions when I saw he was to perform […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment, News
Civil jury finds Bill Cosby sexually abused teenager in 1975
Jurors found that Bill Cosby intentionally caused harmful sexual contact with a 16-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in 1975.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Colbert says his staffers guilty of ‘first-degree puppetry’
CBS says the interviews were authorized and pre-arranged and it wasn’t clear if Capitol Police were told in advance that the employees would be in a building normally closed to visitors.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World
For K-pop supergroup BTS, questions remain about its future
HYBE, the company behind the band, denied the group was taking a hiatus – a word used in a translation of the group’s emotional dinnertime video announcement last week.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
‘Good Luck to You, Leo Grande’: Finding sex and self-acceptance at 55
In “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande,” Emma Thompson plays Nancy Stokes, a widow and retired religion education teacher who has endured a lifetime of erotic unfulfillment. Until today. As the movie opens, Nancy is arriving at a featureless hotel room to meet the sex worker she has procured for the evening – a last-ditch […]
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‘Lightyear’ stays earthbound, ‘Jurassic World’ holds No. 1 at box office
“Lightyear” disappoints with $51 million in its debut weekend in North America.
Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
Plant propagation: The hows and the whys
There are several ways to propagate plants yourself, and there are several good reasons to do so. Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens experts explain.
Posted inFood & Dining, Green plate special, Recipes
Green Plate Special: Cucumbers three ways, all of them delicious
They grow well, and eat well, in Maine.