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Life & Culture
Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
Clean up your garden for fall
But don’t be overzealous. Left standing, many garden plants offer food and shelter for birds and other wildlife.
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Oct. 7, 1991: Fire in Waterville’s South End levels building late at night, Rome teenager studying mice at Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, and the question how Maine should set its transportation priorities is Question 1 on the Nov. 5 ballot
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Posted inFood & Dining, Outdoors
Before hitting the 100-Mile Wilderness, Appalachian Trail hikers tell tales of hunger
Shaw’s Hiker Hostel in Monson serves a bountiful breakfast that’s legendary among hikers.
Posted inBooks, Life & Culture, Maine Authors
OFF RADAR: ‘Trigger Warning: A Novel’
This portrayal of life in academia stretches reality, but not as much as you might think.
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Oct. 6, 2000: Executive director of Kennebec Valley Council of Governments set to retire after more than 30 years on the job, new sporting goods store to open in Winthrop, and selectmen are worried about Starling Hall in Fayette
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Posted inJ.P. Devine, Life & Culture, Movie Review J.P. Devine
‘Reptile’ a multiple murder drama
OMG. Is that Alicia Silverstone (“Miss Match” 2003) kissing Benicio Del Toro on the neck? (Del Toro starred in the Wes Anderson film “The French Dispatch”) It is. And is Justin Timberlake in Polo golf pants on a sun splashed green? They are joined by Michael Pitt, Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz (I always wondered what […]
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Oct. 5, 1987: A peak into the future of Waterville’s downtown, teaching AIDS to students posing ‘prickly problems’, and early shutdown of Maine Yankee atomic plant would pose no impact on Maine as site of nuclear waste site says new report
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Posted inLife & Culture, Things to Do
Wiscasset gallery celebrates state’s craftspeople
‘The Artful Interior’ on exhibit through Oct. 21.
Posted inLife & Culture, On Music Lucky Clark
Loreena McKennitt shares woes of music industry
Celtic artist to return to Portland’s Merrill Auditorium Oct. 11