Zap2it.comNBC announced last week that it was picking up “Law & Order: SVU” for a ninth season; at the time, though, the network hadn’t secured the services of stars Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni for next season.That detail has now been taken care of.Meloni and Hargitay, who have been with the series from its beginning, […]

With its swaths of forest and swamp, its crouching, forgotten towns and anonymous two-track roads, Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is not easy landscape to decode. With few exceptions, notably early Hemingway, it is not especially familiar literary territory, either.But it is fertile land indeed to Michigan native Jim Harrison. His latest novel, “Returning to Earth” (Grove […]

MECHANIC FALLS – The Down East Country Music Association will present a country Valentine show Sunday, Feb. 4, at the Silver Spur. Entertainment for the day will be the 2006 Tennessee Bound Decma winners – singers, bands and musicians.Admission: $5 for members and seniors; $6 for nonmembers; $2 for children under age 12.There will be […]

PARIS – Patricia Probert Gott will sign copies of her new book, “Metamorphosis: My Journey of Growth and Change,” Saturday, Jan. 27, at the Paris Public Library.Gott is an author, photographer, retired businesswoman, divorcee, horseback rider and, most of all, adventurer. From her homestead in South Paris, she seeks out life experiences that have taken […]

“Rebellion,” by Nora Roberts; Silhouette Books; $7.99.If you haven’t read the series of books by Nora Roberts about the MacGregors, here’s some of the best advice you’ll ever receive as a romance reader: Read them now.And if you’re just starting on what is guaranteed to be one of the most beloved series you’ll ever read, […]

OWLS HEAD-The Owls Head Transportation Museum will hold its first ever Antique & Vintage Snowmobile Festival Saturday, Feb. 10. Snowmobile owners from around the state will bring their old machines and will join antique snowplow trucks and snow-blowers for a parade around the museum’s exhibit area at noon.Exhibitors will receive free admission to the event.The […]

Boston – Although twice in danger of death, first by water and then by fire which occupied the ruin of their craft, the crew of the Rockland, Me., schooner A. Heaten, succeeded in reaching dry land and were quartered at a marine hotel in the North End. The wreck of the Heaton foundered early two […]

Compassionate as it is critical, satirical as it is serious, “The Queen” is less a docudrama about British Prime Minister Tony Blair and HRH Elizabeth II in the aftermath of Princess Diana”s death than it is a political romantic comedy. Its concern is how the Labor leader and the wary wife of Windsor change each […]

Portland station will join with Fox affiliate for nightly newscast LEWISTON – Another local TV news show will soon be televised at 10 p.m.Portland-based WGME 13 has come to an agreement with Fox 23, to supply the local Fox affiliate with a seven-nights-a-week newscast, beginning on Feb. 5.“We’ll bring our same fast-paced, breaking news format […]

PORTLAND – “There Ought to Be A Law,” a documentary film about a Maine woman who became a gun control activist after her teenage son’s suicide, will be shown Monday, Jan. 29, at the University of Southern Maine.Former State Sen. Michael Brennan, now a policy associate with the Institute for Child and Family Policy in […]