The Maine Pottery Tour will return for its 11th year May 6 and 7 with 65 studios and 21 guest artists from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to Phillips to Machias opening their doors to the public. The tour will be split into six regions: central, southern, western, Down East, midcoast and Portland. The central Maine tour […]
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Jerry Springer, politician-turned-TV ringmaster, dies at 79
Jerry Springer, the former Cincinnati mayor and news anchor whose namesake TV show unleashed strippers, homewreckers and skinheads to brawl and spew obscenities on weekday afternoons, has died.
Harry Belafonte, civil rights activist and entertainer, dies at 96
With his glowing, handsome face and silky-husky voice, Belafonte was one of the first Black performers to gain a wide following on film and to sell a million records as a singer.
Prince William got ‘very large sum’ in phone hack settlement
Court papers say Prince William quietly received ‘a very large sum of money’ in a 2020 phone hacking settlement with the British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
Involuntary manslaughter charge to be dropped in Baldwin movie set shooting
Baldwin and the film’s weapons supervisor Hannah Gutierrez-Reed were both charged with involuntary manslaughter in the shooting.
Donut painting sparks free speech debate for New Hampshire bakery, town
At about 90 square feet, an outdoor mural painted by high school art students is 4 times bigger than the town sign code allows.
Using clay sourced from Maine, these potters get their hands extra dirty
A small number of ceramic artists in Maine dig their own clay from the rich deposits across the state and use it to make their work.
Anne Perry, crime writer with a murderous past, dead at 84
Perry, the best-selling crime novelist known for her own murderous past that inspired the movie ‘Heavenly Creatures,’ has died at the age 84.
French investigative website claims Gérard Depardieu groped extras
Most of the claims reported by Mediapart relate to film shoots between 2004 and 2022.
Al Jaffee, longtime Mad magazine cartoonist, dead at 102
Jaffee died Monday in Manhattan from multiple organ failure, according to his granddaughter, Fani Thomson.