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Life & Culture
Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inFood & Dining, Recipes
Home Plates: A father’s ‘rite of succotash’
The son of a plain-eating Mainer doctors his dad’s simple recipe.
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Nov. 19, 1997: Rabies infiltration continues record pace and spreads north to Strong and Wilton, voters to decide fate of Head of Falls land in Waterville, and C.F. Hathaway is reviving the classy, affordable shirt
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Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
Botanic gardens like Dublin’s offer growth opportunities to the traveler
Ireland’s National Botanic Gardens include more than 20,000 plants.
Posted inFood & Dining
For Maine food businesses, helping each other out is part of the job
In a tough, fast-paced business where something often goes wrong, Maine restaurateurs, bakers and brewers have countless tales of coming to one another’s aid – or being the recipient of help.
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Nov. 18, 1973: Sidney cub scout, 9, saves playmate from giant oak tree, oil dealers say heating fuel prices could hit 55 cents a gallon, and Nixon marches into Georgia amid Watergate scandal
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Posted inBusiness, Food & Dining, Nation & World
Salmonella in cantaloupes sickens dozens in 15 states, U.S. health officials say
At least 43 people in 15 states have been infected in the outbreak announced Friday, including 17 people who were hospitalized.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Nation & World, News
British writer A.S. Byatt, author of the novel ‘Possession,’ dies at 87
‘Possession,’ published in 1990, follows 2 modern-day academics investigating the lives of a pair of Victorian poets. It won the prestigious Booker Prize that year and was adapted as a 2002 film.
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Nov. 17, 1995: Young moose survives adventure down Kennebec River in Skowhegan, government shutdown in DC thwarts Waterville students’ field trip attempt, and two families in Caanan face eviction because landlord wants to sell house to town
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Posted inJ.P. Devine, Life & Culture, Movie Review J.P. Devine
‘The Killer’ slated to be Netflix’s top film of the winter
“Forbid empathy. Empathy is weakness. Weakness is vulnerability.” The Killer’s credo. David Fincher (“Fight Club,” “Gone Girl,”) is back in all shades of black added by writer Andrew Kevin Walker, who adapted it from a French graphic novel by Matz and Lucy Jacamon. All players here are nameless, only given titles. At the opening, Fincher […]