Sharon Lee and Steve Miller have co-authored science fiction novels and stories for more than 35 years. Their 25th Liaden Universe novel came out in July, and they’ve collaborated on 100 works in all.
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Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inFood & Dining
Girl Dinner is everything, so Girl Dinner is nothing
The Girl Dinner trend started off with curated plates, but the wheels have come off.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Best-Sellers: ‘Dean Man’s Wake,’ ‘The Creative Act’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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Dining out with the kids? These aren’t your grandparents’ family restaurants.
Today’s family-oriented restaurants offer expertly crafted, carefully sourced food to discerning young families – a welcome change from the cookie-cutter chains and generic venues of the past.
Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener, Recipes
Guide to growing shallots
Shallot be an unfamiliar allium it the garden this year? The Atwells say yes.
Posted inFood & Dining, Recipes
Hummus turns into a sauce for this fast one-pot pasta
Using hummus instead of chickpeas saves time, helps avoid waste, and puts a sometimes-pasty store-bought product to good use.
Posted inFood & Dining, Recipes
Home Plates: Eat, love, remember
A showstopper dessert evokes the beloved dessert maker.
Posted inOn this date
Aug. 20, 1983: Author of M*A*S*H novel who is former surgeon at Waterville hospital finds TV show ‘not particularly funny’, funding for Rangeley-based missing child center stalls, and archaeological dig at Solon campground finds people used site over 3,000 years ago
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Aug. 19, 1981: Shaw’s 10,000 sq. foot store expansion in Augusta worries local retail competition, Maine Human Rights Commission rules in favor of new father, and this hardworking vegetable dealer in Dover-Foxcroft returned sum of money to elderly woman
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Aug. 18, 1993: Police increase pot charges against Brighton’s first selectman and her husband, registered Maine Guide from Oakland gets 3 days in jail, and selling sausages for the last 27 years at the Skowhegan fair is ‘a lot of hard work’
Visit Centralmaine.com/archive to view nearly 200 years’ worth of history at your fingertips.