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Life & Culture
Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Bangor festival celebrates beer with bacon
The Bangor Beer Festival has added a “bacon bar” to its June 17 event.
New food festival coming to Thompson’s Point in June
The event in aimed at food lovers and entrepreneurs.
Don Rickles, known for comic insults, dies at 90
Rickles trained as a dramatic actor and developed a stand-up act in the 1950s.
OFF RADAR: ‘Tourists in the Known World’
Dana Wilde describes Kristen Lindquist’s poetry as an authentic joy, something like prayer.
Watch: Teen makes clever ‘La La’-style prom-posal to Emma Stone
Jacob Staudenmaier enlists dozens of classmates and a few teachers to help with the video.
U.S. ambassador to Somalia answers students’ questions at Deering High School
Stephen Schwartz largely skirts questions about President Trump’s travel ban from Somalia and five other countries as he begins a trip to Somali communities in Portland, Lewiston and around the country.
Recipe: Black bean-cricket chili
Reprinted with permission from Entomo Farms. Makes 8-10 servings 2 tablespoons butter ½ onion, diced 4 garlic cloves, minced 4 celery stalks, diced 1 large green pepper, diced 1 large yellow or red pepper, diced 2 teaspoons ground cumin 3 tablespoons chili powder 2 (28-ounce) cans unsalted diced tomatoes, rinsed 2 (19-ounce) cans black beans, […]
Gratin ‘side dish’ may make you forget the roast entirely
Here you don’t have to worry about shaping, as you would with gnocchi.
Chicken with olives is fit for Passover or any chilly spring night
The richly flavored dish can be doubled to feed a crowd.