Many people passed the time during the pandemic shutdowns and mask mandates by taking up or rediscovering cribbage, a card and board game that’s been around since the 1600s.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment
Ogunquit Museum opening up its view and its doors wider this season
The seasonal art museum will soon complete a renovation that showcases the property’s ocean view, but director Amanda Lahikainen, hired during the pandemic, has bigger ambitions, too.
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Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
Follow your Bliss: For John Bliss, of Broadturn Farms, that means growing cut flowers
In a recent online talk, Bliss discussed growing perennials on the Scarborough farm for flower arrangements.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Bedside table: Real-life COVID events make this novel gripping reading
Book recommendations from readers.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Food & Dining, Recipes
In the new Wakanda cookbook, Black Panther food lore comes to life
The author created a story-within-a-story for a cookbook set in the fictional nation.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Local & State
Society Notebook: Indigo Arts Alliance celebrates creative and cultural connections
The party at One Longfellow Square served as a fundraiser for the nonprofit’s residency program for artists of color from around the world.
Posted inNation & World, Religion and Values
For Ukrainian Orthodox in U.S., war news casts pall on Easter
Many find it difficult to be joyful when their ancestral homeland has been torn by the Russian invasion.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
‘Golden Girls’ shows little age at inaugural fan convention
More than 2,000 people are expected to converge at Golden-Con: Thank You For Being a Fan, which lasts through Sunday.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World
Johnny Depp’s libel trial turns into a spectacle
Amber Heard wrote a 2018 op-ed piece in which she referred to herself as a ‘public figure representing domestic abuse.’
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Nation & World
Rio’s Carnival parades return after long pandemic hiatus
More than 663,000 people have died from COVID-19 in Brazil, the second highest of any country in the world.