It rockets to No. 1 on Amazon.com and proceeds are being donated to a suicide hotline for LGBTQ youth, and AIDS United.
Life & Culture
Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
New cheese shop coming to Portland in June
The Cheese Shop of Portland will open initially in a renovated shipping container at the corner of Washington Avenue and Marion Street.
Vandalized mural by artist Banksy drawing crowds in New York City
Someone had drawn a signature tag on the protest art, which calls for the freeing of an artist and journalist jailed in Turkey and was recently installed on the Houston Bowery Wall.
Dine Out Maine: Sweet (sometimes too much so), whimsical New England-y small plates at Moxy in Portsmouth
The restaurant is run by chef Matt Louis, a multi-James Beard award nominee.
Captivated by curling, Maine artist captures the likeness and attention of the U.S. Olympic team
Bruce McMillan tweeted his watercolors to encourage the team in its gold-medal run.
In New York, ‘We’re all immigrants’ on St. Patrick’s Day
An estimated 150,000 marchers make the 1.4-mile trek past Central Park, St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Trump Tower.
Smuttynose Brewing Co. has new owner
Runnymede Investments, a family-owned firm located 5 miles from the brewery in North Hampton, New Hampshire, teams up with a brewery executive.
Plans underway to add one more to Portland’s craft brewery hub
Definitive Brewing Co. would join several other breweries in the Riverton neighborhood.
Falmouth theater getting hate calls for staging play with Holocaust theme
The artistic director for Footlights Theatre sent a note to supporters outlining some of the calls and why they affirm his belief that the play is worth doing.