Shaw, a charismatic and wide-ranging vocalist, was best known for 1969’s ‘California Soul,’ which has endured as a widely popular and often sampled song.
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Reformed mobster wanted ‘one last score’ when he stole Judy Garland’s ruby slippers
Terry Jon Martin’s defense attorney finally revealed the 76-year-old’s motive for the 2005 theft from the Judy Garland Museum in the late actor’s hometown of Grand Rapids, Minnesota.
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Plants are learning how to self-pollinate – and that’s not good
Pansies have figured out how as a response to the dire drop in pollinator numbers, but self-pollination produces weaker plants.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Early uses of color printing come into focus at Osher Map Library
‘A Pageant of Spectacles: Chromolithography in America’ is on view in Portland through June 29.
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Grand jury indicts Alec Baldwin in fatal shooting of cinematographer on movie set in New Mexico
Special prosecutors brought the case before a grand jury in Santa Fe, New Mexico, this week, reviving a dormant case against the A-list actor.
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Prince Harry drops libel case against Daily Mail after damaging pretrial ruling
It came the day he was due to hand over documents in the case and after a punishing ruling last month in which a judge ordered Harry to pay the publisher more than $60,000 in legal fees.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, New England
Scholar discovers stories, poems possibly written by Louisa May Alcott
During the time of the ‘Little Women’ author, it was common for female writes to use pseudonyms.
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Reba McEntire, Post Malone and Andra Day to sing during Super Bowl pregame
McEntire will sing the national anthem, while Post Malone will perform ‘America the Beautiful.’
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Nevada high court says it won’t reconsider ‘Dances With Wolves’ actor’s case
Nathan Chasing Horse had requested the dismissal of an indictment that accuses him of leading a cult, taking underage wives, and sexually abusing Indigenous women and girls.
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‘Oppenheimer,’ the Frankenstein’s monster that changed our world
“I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” A verse from the Bhagavad Gita, spoken by Oppenheimer while viewing the successful test of the first bomb. J. Robert Oppenheimer. A name forever burned in history and largely forgotten. Japanese cities like Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the two cities our bombers destroyed at the cost of great […]