Every once in a while, when I’m scrolling through pictures on my phone, I recall the early days of the pandemic. In the spring of 2020, my children were 1 and 3, just babies. To see those pictures is to ache for the years that I lost, and the years that they lost, the years […]
Life & Culture
Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Bedside table: Walking is the best medicine
Book recommendations from readers.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Exposé on the pandemic reveals another sickness: Greed
J. David McSwane’s deep dive unmasks the profiteers who proliferated in the outbreak’s wake.
Posted inFood & Dining, Recipes
A creamy edamame spread adds green goodness to these vegetable wraps
The recipe started life as something for vegan guests to eat. Turned out, everybody else wanted it, too.
Posted inBusiness, Food & Dining, Vegan Kitchen
From ice cream to burgers to macarons, everything’s coming up vegan in Maine
With several new businesses, Maine’s vegan footprint just keeps expanding.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Maine Authors
Review: Biographies of a musician and a painter succeed admirably in conveying the arts to young children
‘Look!’ and learn from two compelling new picture books, one about Scott Joplin, the other Winslow Homer.
Posted inFood & Dining
A passion for feeding the world’s marginalized people
Trained by the prestigious Le Cordon Bleu cooking school in Paris, a Maine man spends his retirement years helping feed hungry people worldwide, including Ukrainian war refugees.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Best-Sellers: ‘Sea of Tranquility,’ ‘Time is a Mother’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
Posted inLife & Culture, Nation & World
102 marathons in 102 days: Amputee’s unofficial world record
An amputee athlete from Arizona has set an unofficial world record, running 102 marathons in 102 days.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Life & Culture, Times Record, Uncategorized
After decades painting in private, Bowdoinham artist readies his first exhibit
A dozen paintings and one sculpture by David Mann will be on display at the Merrymeeting Arts Center in Bowdoinham, beginning Friday.