Pupping season for gray seals has started and seal selfies are posing a new threat.
Life & Culture
Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Developer proposes 4-story ‘makerspace’ to keep artists in Portland
Cyrus Hagge says he wants to build a workshop complex so artists and craftspeople won’t be squeezed out by gentrification.
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Viewers react to ‘Criminal Minds’: The Lewiston episode
For those who tuned in just to see their home town represented, there was nothing much familiar about the city explored in the episode.
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Watch videos: Portland musicians mark 1969 rooftop concert by The Beatles with their own
Fifty years ago, The Beatles staged an unannounced concert – their last – from a rooftop on Savile Row in London.
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Director Peter Jackson making new film of Beatles in studio
The documentary will use previously unseen 1969 footage.
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Police: None of footage shows attack on ‘Empire’ actor Jussie Smollett
He says two masked men beat him, subjected him to racist and homophobic insults, threw an ‘”unknown chemical substance’ on him and put a thin rope around his neck.
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New lunch bar coming to Old Port
Get a pastrami sandwich and a beer at Royale Lunch Bar.
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Country music bar planned for Bayside
Proposed for an old public works building, The Whiskey Barrel plans to have a stage, dance floor and outdoor patio.
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New Peaks Island seafood restaurant is in the works
A local couple plans to turn The Peaks Island House into Island Lobster Co.
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The Wrap: Treasured painting stolen from Hunt & Alpine Club; Wells bakery offers year’s supply of doughnuts
The painting of Crater Lake in Oregon has been in Briana Volk’s family for decades, and her parents made it a congratulatory gift when she and her husband opened their bar.