“Willie Nelson: An Epic Life,” by Joe Nick Patoski; Little, Brown; $27.99Willie Hugh Nelson is a transient man. He inherited that quality from his parents, restless people who didn’t stay married long and never raised Willie and sister Bobbie before fleeing Abbott, Texas.So Willie has spent most of his adult life on the road, sometimes […]

NEW GLOUCESTER – The duo Two Old Friends, made up of Mac McHale and Emery Hutchins, affectionately known as Mac and Hutch, will sing and play songs from Ireland, the mountains and the sea Saturday, May 3, at the New Gloucester Village Coffee House.McHale and Hutchins were the original founders of the Irish band The […]

BRUNSWICK – With more than 100 million copies of her books in print, Debbie Macomber is one of the leading voices in women’s fiction today with her novels regularly appearing on the best-seller lists.Last fall, “74 Seaside Avenue,” the latest book in her Cedar Cove series, debuted simultaneously on The New York Times, USA Today […]

Few wholesale grocers realize the importance and extent of the paper-bag industry, or the large amount of capital invested in the production of this absolute necessity to the retail grocer, says the American Grocer. There are consumed in the United States alone grocers’ paper bags to the value of nearly twelve million dollars annually.When it […]

INDIO, Calif. (AP) – “Coachella, I am here.”Prince hit the stage at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival with that announcement, heralding his arrival as the much-anticipated headliner of the summer festival.Shortly after 11 p.m. Saturday, Prince strutted onto the stage wearing white pants and a white shirt with glittery fringe. His performance, the […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) – “Baby Mama,” Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s comedy about surrogate motherhood, delivered the No. 1 spot at the weekend box office with $18.3 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.The Universal Pictures laugher starring the “Saturday Night Live” duo crawled past Warner Bros.’ “Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo […]

The second piece of NBC’s late-night succession plan is falling into place.Speculation has been swirling for a few months that former “Saturday Night Live” regular Jimmy Fallon would take over “Late Night” when Conan O’Brien moves to “The Tonight Show” next year. That looks to be pretty much a done deal now.The showbiz trade papers […]

Whenever her 4-year-old twins started bickering with each other, Michelle Papay used to jump between them to keep the peace.Now she sits back and watches the action.She used to get the boys dressed in the morning.Now the Westlake, Ohio, mom tosses them their underwear and heads down to the kitchen.All those wonderful scheduled activities for […]

DEAR ABBY: Please help me deliver a message to a family here about their son, who is a fifth-grader in the school my children also attend.These parents are well-known. They refuse to allow their son to get his hair cut, and it has caused him to withdraw from sports at school. He told some of […]

DEAR MR. DAD: My kids never help around the house unless I berate them into doing so. How can I get my kids to carry their weight?Answer: Recent research, seems to indicate that kids these days actually are qualitatively different than their parents and do fewer chores than we did. But why? Is it that […]