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Life & Culture
Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Jurors side with Taylor Swift in case of groping
The DJ who jurors found assaulted her must pay the pop star a symbolic $1, which is what she sought.
‘Newsies’ flies high at Maine State Music Theatre
The musical runs through Aug. 26 in Brunswick.
Video shows Tom Cruise limping after stunt in ‘Mission: Impossible 6’
The film is shooting in London and scheduled for release next July.
‘Annabelle: Creation’ reigns at top of weekend box office list
The film, the third horror film to spiral out of 2013’s ‘The Conjuring,’ cost only about $15 million to make.
Stone exhibition in Boothbay presents artists at work
A dozen carvers will make sculpture as part of a live exhibit about the history of stone and quarrying in Maine.
Dine Out Maine: Savor homestyle Somali cuisine at Mini Mogadishu
The setting at the Portland restaurant is festive and the food modest, yet special.
Making pasta’s the new focus for Roxanne Quimby
After Burt’s Bees, after the national monument, she could take it easy. But this famous entrepreneur can’t stop doing.
Maine artists head to the Arctic in search of a new frontier
Alarmed by a changing climate and eager to tell stories, photographers, painters, songwriters and others go north.
Crowd at Art in the Park drawn to beeswax paintings
The show marks its 38th year at Mill Creek Park in South Portland.