What is your take on couples’ e-mail? Should this be something that is completely private? Even when married? Or do you feel that if there is nothing to hide, there is no need for privacy? What are the privacy boundary lines? What if at one time you found out your partner responded to a personal […]

By Ron Harris,Associated Press Writer“Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal That Rocked professional Sports,” by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, Gotham Books, 332 Pages, $26. San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds has long annoyed or ignored most writers who cover him, so the steroid questions that have dogged him in recent […]

AUBURN – “The Agronomist,” a personal documentary project from Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme, will be shown April 5 and 6, at Central Maine Community College.The film is a celebration of journalist, broadcaster and human rights activist Jean Dominique and his tireless fight against injustice and oppression in Haiti.Demme is best known for his work […]

By Ethan Alter,The Morning Call‘ATL’ After turning his own life into a feature film, Antwone Fisher helps composer/producer Dallas Austin and musician Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins (that’s right, Ms. “Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls” herself) do the same thing. Loosely based on their experiences growing up in the “ATL” – that’s Atlanta for all you Yankees – […]

WATERVILLE – The second annual Knock on Wood Guitarfest, featuring innovative and accomplished guitar players in performance and workshop settings, will be held Friday and Saturday, April 7-8.The event will kick off with varied workshops Friday night and all day Saturday at Colby’s Given Auditorium, culminating with a 7:30 p.m. concert Saturday night at the […]

By Phil Whipple,Special to Encore AUBURN – Legendary blues renaissance man and JSP Records recording artist Johnny Rawls is known for his soulful vocals and smooth guitar. This icon of “soul blues” will perform at the Midnight Blues Club and Restaurant April 2, as part of the 2006 Sunday Night Blues Series. Rawls is touring […]

By Pat Davidson Reef,Special to Encore Man’s urge to build is a universal and timeless need in every civilization. Courthouses, city halls, jails, churches, synagogues, banks, libraries, museums, private homes – they are all reflections of our values, climate, environment and way of life. “The Maine Perspective: Architectural Drawings” now showing at the Portland Museum […]

When Penn clinched the league championship my sophomore year of college, fans rushed the football field and tore down the goalposts. When security locked the gates of the stadium, we used one of the uprights as a battering ram to plow our way through, at which point I fell and was almost trampled to death. […]

Forget cats. Frogs must have at least a hundred lives, judging by the longtime success of “Frogger,” an arcade game that’s developed a life of its own.The latest installment is this PSP title, which is full of swinging, hopping, dodging fun. The residents of Frogger’s favorite swamp have been taken over by mind-control helmets, and […]

GAS CITY, Ind. (AP) – The museum chronicling the short life of James Dean has closed after struggling financially since its opening in 2004.David Loehr, owner of the James Dean Gallery, announced in December that he planned to close the museum, but an outpouring of contributions led him to give it another try.It ultimately shut […]