The festival kicks off its sixth year on Saturday with the theme “Seeds and Breeds: Promoting and Preserving Food Diversity” at the University of Maine Farmington’s Emery Community Arts Center.
Life & Culture
Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Deadhead alert: Jerry Garcia’s guitar, named Wolf, is up for auction
The auctioneer says it first appeared in a 1973 New York performance the Grateful Dead gave for the Hells Angels.
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Prom 2017: Starring Maine’s fashionable teens
Send us your pictures of tuxes and gowns and we’ll use them in our 2017 high school prom gallery. Just click, upload and give us names to go with the faces.
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Calorie counts appear on some menus, despite delay of rule
Many chains have been scrambling to comply with Friday’s deadline and don’t plan to change course.
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‘Church planter’ Isaac Case memorialized at Manchester Meeting House
A monument to the Baptist minister and missionary in early Maine was dedicated Thursday, donated in memory of the late Rev. Craig Lathrop, who died a year ago.
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Turbulent drama about cultural identity opens Friday at Portland Stage
The theater company gives the audience time to talk about difficult issues raised in the Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘Disgraced.’
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Alanis Morissette’s former manager sentenced to 6 years for stealing millions from her
‘He did this in a long, systematic, drawn-out and sinister manner,’ the singer testified. ‘He was creating an alibi from the start.’
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On May the Fourth (Star Wars Day), fans are getting their Yoda on
From Taipei to Indianapolis, people are dressing up as storm troopers, Yodas, Chewbaccas, Princess Leias, Hans Solos, Jar Jar Binkses, et al.
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OFF RADAR: Dennis Camire’s riotous poetry
‘Combed by Crows’ is a welcome departure from the self-serious, frequently static poetry, and it’s worth a look.
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A century after its congregation dissolved, Abyssinian Meeting House gathers community again
‘A Distant Holla,’ an art show opening Friday, aims to bring the original ‘spirit of life’ back to the spiritual site of black culture.