Keeping weeds from going to seed and always having a trowel on hand are starters.
Life & Culture
Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Best-Sellers: ‘The Midcoast,’ ‘Happy-Go-Lucky’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
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Posted inFood & Dining, Kennebec Journal, Maine, News
Keeping it wild for Wild Blueberry Weekend in Maine
Dresden organic blueberry farm hosts visitors, bees.
Posted inBooks, Life & Culture, Maine Authors
OFF RADAR: ‘Maiden Cove: A Novel’
One of the most carefully detailed fictionalizations we have of lobstering on the Maine coast, writes Dana Wilde.
Posted inFood & Dining
This brewer is determined to make the world’s 2 best lagers in Biddeford
Brienne Allan, who accidentally started a movement after posting about sexism in the brewing industry, is starting fresh in Maine with her niche brewery, Sacred Profane, opening this month.
Posted inBooks, Life & Culture, Maine Authors, Uncategorized
AUTHOR EVENT: Sam Shain
Hallowell author, teacher, musician to offer advanced copies of “Education Revolution.”
Posted inLife & Culture, Maine, Morning Sentinel
Plenty to taste, see and hear at popular Taste of Waterville
Head of Falls along the Kennebec River teemed with people who ate, strolled, socialized and listened to music Wednesday during the 11-hour Taste of Waterville.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Business, Nation & World
Stephen King testifies for government in book publishers’ antitrust trial
The bestselling author’s appearance in U.S. District Court in Washington brought a narrative of the evolution of book publishing toward the dominance of the Big Five companies.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Business, Nation & World
Stephen King is star witness as government tries to block publishing giants’ merger
The Justice Department argues that the merger would shrink competition and, inevitably, the vital public discourse that books help engender.
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‘An Evening at Dave’s Sauna’ tells the mostly true story of an Oxford County legend
The musical, playing Friday and Saturday at Deertrees in Harrison, focuses on Dave Graiver and his eponymous establishment in South Paris.