After spending years on the road with the Grateful Dead and Blues Traveler, Greg Martens now organizes annual benefit concerts to fight hunger in Maine, featuring musician friends he met along the way.
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‘Dilbert’ dropped by Press Herald, other papers after cartoonist’s racist rant
The Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram joined many newspapers that will drop the long-running comic strip after its creator called Black Americans a ‘hate group.’
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Harvey Weinstein gets 16 years for rape, sexual assault
The sentence comes on top of the more than 20 years the 70-year-old Weinstein has left to serve for a similar 2020 conviction in New York.
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Asylum patients’ personal items make for evocative photo show at Cape Elizabeth church
The project by Massachusetts photographer Jon Crispin, called ‘Willard Suitcases,’ runs through April 2 at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church.
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L/A Arts holds grand opening for new Lisbon Street space
L/A Arts reopened at 168 Lisbon St. Saturday after several months of planning, relocating and renovating. The new space, just down the road from its old one, is better equipped for gallery space, installations and performances, say several board directors.
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U.S. prosecutors ask for 25 more years in prison for R. Kelly
In their sentencing recommendation, prosecutors described Kelly’s behavior as “sadistic,” calling him “a serial sexual predator” with no remorse and who “poses a serious danger to society.”
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Hank Beebe, prolific composer and founder of Schoolhouse Arts in Standish, dies at 96
Before he came to Maine, Beebe had a successful career on and off Broadway. A service and sing-along will be held Saturday.
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Hollywood sex symbol Raquel Welch dies at 82
Her curves and beauty captured pop culture attention, with Playboy crowning her the ‘most desired woman’ of the ’70s, and graced the No. 2 spot on Men’s Health’s ‘Hottest Women of All Time’ list in 2013.
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Gov. Mills pushes the power of poems – and writes them, too
As governor, Janet Mills served on a committee that selected the state’s current poet laureate, Julia Bouwsma, and she restored poetry to inaugurations.
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Read a few poems Gov. Mills wrote over the years
Maine’s Democratic Gov. Janet Mills says poems ‘elevate our soul.’