100 years ago: 1919 City Manager Beck of Auburn, when questioned by the Lewiston Journal Wednesday, said that he will decline the gratifying offer made him by the Wabash Railway to become its terminal supervisor. He was offered a wider field and broader opportunity, but he has become interested in Auburn and feels that his […]
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Bowdoin International Music Festival announces 2019 concert season
The season will run from June 22 through Aug. 3.
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A singer goes missing in China’s effort to erase Tiananmen
Ahead of Tiananmen anniversary, Chinese rock musician Li Zhi disappears from public view.
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‘Music for Mavis’ to feature klezmer music by Rabbi Sruli and Lisa
TURNER — “Music for Mavis” Tuesdays at the Gazebo will feature husband-and-wife musical duo Rabbi Sruli and Lisa, bringing old-world Klezmer music with an assortment of ancient instruments and song at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, at 98 Matthew’s Way off Route 117, Turner Center. Sruli and his wife, Lisa, are international Jewish performers and personalities. Sruli […]
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Roky Erickson, frontman of 13th Floor Elevators and a father of psychedelic rock, dies at 71
he was credited with paving the way for punk, psychedelic and alternative rock, and influenced artists as wide-ranging as ZZ Top, John Wesley Harding, Doug Sahm, Television, Butthole Surfers, T Bone Burnett and the Jesus and Mary Chain.
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Looking Back on June 4
100 years ago: 1919 Information was received here Monday which enabled the people of Paris and Norway to set the date for the welcome to the returned soldiers. It will be held in the Oxford County Fair Grounds in South Paris, Monday. June 9. Gen. Clarence R. Edwards and Governor Carl Milliken and his staff […]
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Asia Kate Dillon makes history with major nonbinary roles in ‘Billions’ and ‘John Wick 3’
Genius mathematician Taylor Mason didn’t mince words when first ushered into the office of wealthy hedge fund king Bobby “Axe” Axelrod. “Hello, I’m Taylor,” Mason said. “My pronouns are ‘they,’ ‘theirs’ and ‘them.’”
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Column: Shine is wearing off for Disney devotee
“I’m talking about the increasing monopoly it has on the entertainment industry and, by extension, American culture.”
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In Netflix’s Central Park Five miniseries, Trump is called a ‘bigot’ whose ’15 minutes’ are almost up
The Central Park Five, as they became known, are the focus of the four-part series that was released Friday. But Trump is an ineradicable part of their story, which began after a white woman was raped and beaten while jogging in Central Park.
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Looking Back on June 3
100 years ago: 1919 Lisbon schools were closed Wednesday; vaccination of the pupils was begun, thorough investigation of suspicious cases of smallpox was carried on by the three local physicians under the direction of Dr. T. H. Burr of the Falls and quarantine was established wherever it was deemed necessary. No cause can be assigned […]