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Life & Culture
Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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TV SERIES REVIEW: ‘The Dry’ is a strange, often bewildering sitcom
In the opening scenes of Paddy Breathnach and Nancy Harris’s “The Dry,” we meet Shiv (short for Siobhan played by Roisin Gallagher) arriving home unexpectedly from London in a cab. She seems surprised that no one in the family is there to meet her. Once you meet this family, you’ll wonder if she really grew […]
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Feb. 1, 2001: Fairfield’s Olde New England Candle expands with purchase of Alfred business, new performing arts center at UMF is getting closer to reality, and six Franklin County woodworkers have been hard at work making a special gift for the State House in Augusta
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Waterville quilt exhibition patches together struggle of thousands of immigrants at border, detention centers
The Ticonic Gallery at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center at 93 Main St. in downtown Waterville plans to display “The 45,000 Quilt Exhibit” through next Wednesday.
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ON MUSIC: Jontavious Willis says blues is about sharing the experience
Reconnecting with artists is always fun, especially when they are enthusiastic about our great State of Maine — such is the case of today’s chat with Jontavious Willis, who will be coming to One Longfellow Square. He called me from Luthersville, Georgia, on Jan. 5, and the bluesman was more than happy to talk with […]
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Jan. 31, 1989: ‘Computers in schools are not being used’, says director of testing in Maine, civil lawsuit filed challenging special town meeting in China, and painting in farmhouse’s attic in Hinckley goes for $70,000
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Photos: Skiing Titcomb Mountain is full of learning for homeschoolers in Farmington
The temperatures were in the low 20s but it didn’t stop homeschoolers and parents from skiing. Photos by Donna Perry/Sun Journal.
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Jan. 30, 2002: Road commissioner Harold ‘Red’ Mitchell to end 58 years of service to town of Freedom, former Skowhegan Savings Bank razed in Fairfield, and Burnham man to keep his Boston Post gold cane
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Prisoners in the U.S. are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands
In a sweeping 2-year investigation, the Associated Press found goods linked to prisoners wind up in the supply chains of everything from Frosted Flakes cereal and Ball Park hot dogs to Gold Medal flour and Coca-Cola.
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Jan. 29, 1987: Derin’s Sandwich Shop in Hallowell loses shingles appeal from Planning Board, Augusta business leaders told ‘pro-family policy’ needed, and this could be the snowiest January on record here in central Maine
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