Valentine’s Day can be heartfelt. Heartbreaking. Heartening. And sometimes, depending on your love life, the cause of heartburn. Shopping Siren’s favorite way of marking the holiday involves a 3-pound box of assorted chocolates and a bottle of red wine, with or without someone else. It works beautifully for heartache or heartthrobs. No so much for […]
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'For the Love of Art' set for downtown Lewiston
LEWISTON — The Union of Maine Visual Artists LA Chapter and the Downtown Lewiston Art District will present a show, For the Love of Art, from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 18, at five venues. The event is free and open to the public. Each venue will have refreshments and floral designs from […]
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Actress Mary Tyler Moore is dead at age 80, publicist says
NEW YORK — Mary Tyler Moore, the star of TV’s beloved “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” whose comic realism helped revolutionize the depiction of women on the small screen, died Wednesday, said her publicist, Mara Buxbaum. She was 80. Moore gained fame in the 1960s as the frazzled wife Laura Petrie on “The Dick Van Dyke […]
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‘La La Land’ gets record-tying 14 Oscar nominations
The candy-colored love letter to musicals “La La Land” on Tuesday landed a record-tying 14 nominations to the Academy Awards, which fielded a notably more diverse field of nominees following two straight years of “OscarsSoWhite” backlash. “La La Land” matched “Titanic” and “All About Eve” for most nominations ever, earning nods for best picture, stars […]
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‘Under the Skin’ opens Friday at Public Theatre
LEWISTON — The Public Theatre, Lewiston-Auburn’s professional theater, presents the New England premiere of Michael Hollinger’s “Under the Skin,” a funny, powerful and provocative new play that explores the complicated connection between parents and children. The play will run from Jan. 27 to Feb. 5. Raina’s ailing father needs her kidney. But he’s been a […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: TP or not TP: The toilet paper challenge
There’s a single, fundamental issue we can all agree on this Inauguration Day: toilet paper. As in, it’s good. And important. And you don’t realize how desperately you need it until it’s gone. And that not just any toilet paper will do. There’s awfulness out there and now is not the time to stand, er, […]
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Precious. And lost.
‘I bet I cried for at least a good month.’ ‘I thought I was a dead man.’ Readers recount their panic after losing their wedding or engagment rings. Rose Collins lost her engagement ring 58 years ago. After being married for two weeks. After dropping it down a flushing toilet. She’s still not over it. […]
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George Michael dead at 53
Michael died at his home in Goring, England. His publicist, Cindi Berger, said he had not been ill. No other details were released. He enjoyed immense popularity early in his career as a teenybopper idol, delivering a series of hits such as “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,” ”Young Guns (Go For It)” and “Freedom.” […]
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Face Time: Randy Corey, bringer of Christmas Spectacular
When Randy Corey was a boy, he dreamed of being involved in a Christmas show. He got his wish. Big time. For the past 22 years, Corey has directed East Auburn Baptist Church’s Christmas Spectacular, a free community event to celebrate the season with singers, dramatic acts, lights and lasers. The Spectacular has grown to […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: We’re Marking a list and checking it twice
So. Christmas is Sunday. We’re speaking to you, last-minute shopper. And also to you, Mark LaFlamme. Bag Lady and Shopping Siren still remember when Sun Journal’s intrepid crime reporter would bug out of work 10 minutes to midnight on Christmas Eve, sprinting to the local Rite-Aid or gas station to pick up something for his […]