Tell them you mean business! On a rainy day at Park and Ash streets in Lewiston, I nearly got mowed down by a Joe Bornstein SUV. The thing was decked out in photos depicting the fearsome lawyer and all the feisty cliches that have marked his advertising campaign. This begs the question, who do you […]

BC-US–Film Review-Transformers,0706 “Transformers’ shape-shifts into noise, nonsense Eds: Film opens Wednesday. AP Video. AP Photo NYET593, NYET594 By CHRISTY LEMIRE AP Movie Critic LOS ANGELES (AP) – A joyless cacophony, an insistent and seemingly endless onslaught, “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” director Michael Bay’s follow-up to the 2007 smash “Transformers” plays more like a parody […]

The ’80s were known for Duran Duran and Rubik’s cubes. The ’90s had the dot-com boom and Friends. So what will the ’00s be remembered for – and what the heck should we even call them? We hit the Apple Store and Starbucks in Fort Worth, Texas to ask ordinary folks. What will this decade […]

Why is it necessary for the City of Lewiston to send out the street sweepers in the MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT? Waking up to beeping at 1 a.m. is not my idea of a good night’s sleep! Go to bed, guys… — Anonymous People in line who can’t make up their minds. Last night I […]

Freaks. Weirdos. Unmapped roads…. So begins the intro to the increasingly popular blog by the name Strange Maine. It was launched in 2005 by Michelle Souliere and for the past two years was named the very best by the Portland Phoenix. If it’s strange and happening here, you can bet it will be covered at […]

Virgo: You do your best when taking action CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Steve Burton, 39; John Cusack, 43; Kathy Bates, 61; Mel Brooks, 83 Happy Birthday: Look for something solid and lasting and you will find your niche. There is plenty to learn through observation, experience and asking questions. Sizing down or learning to […]

Editor’s note: In 1999, Claudia Topplep was a German exchange student at Auburn’s Edward Little High School who vowed to one day come back and live in Maine. Today, our four-part series concludes — in Claudia’s own words — about the effort by her and her husband, Rene, to relocate to America. For the three […]

divorce360.com (MCT) When Loren Ekroth, a former marriage and family therapist, and his first wife divorced in 1985, he knew he had to forgive her actions, which led to their demise. “A big part of it was that we shared a child,” Ekroth says. “But I also felt and feel strongly that the extent to […]

The books. The movies. Even Pennywise’s sewer grate? Oh, yes. A rolling tour hits all the King highlights you can stuff into 90 minutes BANGOR — The bus chugged up a hill, out of the parking lot. Scott R.C. Levy gripped the microphone and let rip with the fast facts. On our right: The Bangor […]