Daniel Williams, of Brunswick, spent most of his life working as a sign language interpreter in schools. But on Dec. 15, 2007, his orderly life came to a screeching … and almost permanent … halt. “I called an ambulance, because I couldn’t breathe,” he related. “I didn’t know I’d had a major heart attack.” On […]
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FORCES OF NATURE
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art opened “ Regarding the Forces of Nature: From Alma Thomas to Yayoi Kusama,” a new exhibit in its Center Gallery and Focus Gallery, Thursday. The exhibit will be on display until Feb. 9, 2014, featuring works by contemporary women artists who conduct basic research of natural phenomena, often focusing […]
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Young and jazzy
Brunswick High School Music Boosters will present “A Night of Swing and Jazz,” Saturday, Nov. 9. The featured act is the Opus One Big Band. The evening will begin with a silent auction and complimentary dessert buffet in the Brunswick High School cafeteria at 5:30 p.m., followed by the concert in Crooker Theater at 7 […]
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Bollywood singer Manna Dey, 94, dies
NEW DELHI (AP) — Famed playback singer Manna Dey, who recorded nearly 4,000 songs and can be heard in scores of Bollywood films, died in a Bangalore hospital early Thursday. He was 94. Dey was hospitalized in May and was being treated for a kidney infection when his organs failed, said K. Vasuki, an official […]
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Free books by Heller, Turow given in spring
NEW YORK (AP) — Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22,” Scott Turow’s “Presumed Innocent” and Terry McMillan’s “Waiting to Exhale” will be among the works featured next spring for the third annual World Book Night, when millions of free titles are handed out to nonreaders, reluctant readers and people who can’t afford books. Organizers said Wednesday authors, publishers, […]
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Extortion try on ‘Transformers’ set
HONG KONG (AP) — Police are investigating a second reported extortion attempt at the Hong Kong film set of the latest “Transformers” movie, authorities say. . A government statement received overnight said a production company crew member was setting up on the roof of a building in Kowloon on Tuesday when four men “intimidated her […]
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Sandy storm survivor photos in NYC exhibit
NEW YORK With her home on Long Island’s Long Beach swamped by Superstorm Sandy’s unyielding surge, Christina Tisi-Kramer pointed her camera outside and captured an image that summed up her town’s destruction — the beach boardwalk reduced to a jumble of sticks just steps from her door. Tisi-Kramer’s photo is one of 200 images of […]
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Underwood will star on live TV in ‘Sound of Music’
NEW YORK The end of the year looks busy for Carrie Underwood, and she couldn’t be happier. The six-time Grammywinning singer will host the Country Music Association Awards for the sixth time. You can see her singing the opening on NBC’s “Sunday Night Football.” And for one night in December, she’ll star in a live […]
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NBC re-awakens ‘Dracula’
Breaking Vlad? Game of Throats? NBC’s new Dracula reboot, which makes its debut Friday, rarely misses a chance to bite from the most life-rich of today’s pop-culture veins. Rootable antihero (Breaking Bad), hardcore gore (The Walking Dead), upper-crust British period setting (Downton Abbey), a host of hottie blood-suckers (True Blood) — all checked off and […]