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Life & Culture
Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Life & Culture, Maine
Fall Arts Preview: 20 things to see this season
Mark your calendars now for theater, rock concerts, a puppet festival, author events, ballet, art openings and more this fall in Maine.
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Posted inBooks, Life & Culture, Maine Authors
OFF RADAR: ‘Late Wonders: New and Selected Poems’
This is the book to go to for either an introduction or a summation of Wesley McNair, one of Maine’s most prominent, skilled poets
Posted inBusiness, Food & Dining, Maine
Arizona lobster roll chain buys processing plant and wharf in Maine
Owning the facilities eliminates middlemen, which the company says allows it to pay its workers competitive wages and keep lobster roll prices cheap for customers in the Southwest.
Posted inFood & Dining, Recipes
10 things to eat and drink before summer ends
Summer isn’t officially over yet, but it’s the perfect time to take yourself out for one more food fling before it ends. We asked our team of food writers to tell us about 10 items to eat or drink that say ‘summer’ to them.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Life & Culture
Kennebec region featured in latest book from South Gardiner historian
“Around the Kennebec Valley: The Herman Bryant Collection,” from Arcadia Publishing brings Gay Grant back to the collection of the photographer who captured images in the Kennebec Valley in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Posted inFood & Dining, Health, Nation & World, News
Tea drinkers enjoy possible health benefits, study suggests
Past studies in China and Japan, where green tea is popular, suggested health benefits. The new study extends the good news to black tea.
Posted inFood & Dining
Meltdown: The day the refrigerator stopped working
When this summer’s heat wave hit, even the refrigerator couldn’t hack it. But the chore of replacing it proved daunting.
Posted inFood & Dining, Green plate special, Recipes
After you’ve eaten the corn, deploy this genius idea to wring all the good from the corncobs
Make Corncob Jelly. Then, for a special treat, spoon it on Double Corn Muffins.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Maine Authors
Book review: A pandemic is ravaging the world. Then, a plague is loosed on New York City
Chris Holm’s bio-thriller ‘Child Zero’ is a timely page-turner.