More than 800 people filled the downtown event Saturday to sample Maine food, beer, wine and cider.
Life & Culture
Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Augusta Knights of Columbus recall Mother Teresa, on brink of sainthood
The group has a framed letter signed by the soon-to-be saint, a thank-you note it received after donating money to one of her charities.
Maine country music legend Bob Elston to be honored at Clinton Lions Agricultural Fair
Elston, who died in March, and is in the Maine Country Music Hall of Fame, performed with his band the Road Rangers, for 50 years.
‘Tipo,’ new Back Cove neighborhood restaurant, to open in December
The Italian restaurant, run by the owners of Central Provisions, will serve wood-fired oven pizzas and handmade pastas.
Harmony Free Fair honors longtime pie auctioneers Glen and Rosie Carlow
Annual fair, now in its 69th year, runs Friday through Monday with rides, food, fireworks and a parade.
OFF RADAR: ‘Available Light” by Jeanne Braham
A readable little volume provides an introductory study of the life and widely admired poetry of Phillip Booth, focusing particularly on his deep ties to the town of Castine, writes Dana Wilde.
Waterville Creates! appoints Shannon Haines president, CEO
Haines has led the Maine Film Center, the Maine International Film Festival and Waterville Main Street to successes in the city, officials said.
Skin contact – in wine-making – turns an ordinary white into a tantalizing orange
Good skin-fermented wines boast extraordinarily distinctive flavors and an amber color.
Pros share their secrets for mouth-watering veggie burgers
Three experts describe how to maximize texture and flavor in a healthy patty.
Fork Food Lab: Where food enterprises get cooked up
The new facility in Portland will give entrepreneurs who’ve been told, ‘You should sell this stuff’ a kitchen, equipment and help to do that.