DEAR MR. DAD: My husband and I love having guests, but I recently ran into a tough situation. One of my closest friends from high school made plans to come and spend a week with us, along with her husband and two kids.The catch is that her 3-year-old is terrified of dogs and we have […]

This one is for all the men who tell me they don’t read about fashion, yet would like to see a little space dedicated to their wardrobe challenges once in a while.Here it is guys, no holds barred.We are now well into the new year, and some of you have not left the starting line. […]

CHICAGO – Lani Granum of Chicago has sleek and toned abdominal muscles, the kind of midriff that exudes strength. But ask the 56-year-old psychotherapist how she got such defined “abs” and she gets a little defensive.“I hate that word, “abs,”‘ she said.Granum prefers “core,” or the body’s deep muscles that stabilize and surround the torso, […]

Know somebody who likes to brag that he can get by on six hours of sleep a night?Tell him that men who sleep less than seven hours a night have a 26 percent greater death rate over a two-decade period than men who sleep seven to eight hours a night.And children who don’t get enough […]

• It is only within the last three years that the sponge industry at Tarpon Springs, on the west coast of Florida, has assumed such magnitude as to command attention.• Gounod’s beautiful opera “Faust” was presented for the first time in its entirety by professional singers before a good-sized audience at the Empire last evening.• […]

Stories of opera divas breathing at the wrong time and mixed metaphors of sliding notes keep The Androscoggin Chorale singers attentive, precise and smiling.Maine Music Society Artistic Director John Corrie (along with his choices in music) has evoked passionate and professional quality singing from the chorale for the past couple of years. During a recent […]

LEWISTON – The International Student Organization at Lewiston-Auburn and the Lewiston-Auburn College of the University of Southern Maine on Tuesday, April 1, will offer a luncheon discussion titled “The Photographic ‘I’: Memoir and the Photo Essay in Dalia Grinkeviciute’s Gulag Writings.”Jura Avizienis, a professor in the English department and honors program at USM in Portland, […]

The brainiacs of the gambling romp “21” are smart enough to expertly count cards at the blackjack table, identify hot betting tables and put on disguises so they can take Vegas casinos to the cleaners.So why are these MIT scholars so dumb they fall into greedy, grubby plot holes a C-minus Statistics 101 student would […]

General Orders No. 32, which was issued from the War Department at Washington, D.C., under date of March 9, 1908, and which has been received at the office of the adjutant-general at Augusta, contains amendments to various paragraphs of the Army Regulations, among them paragraph 213, relative to the arrangement of the stars in the […]

LEWISTON – Student choreographers will put their work to the test of public performance in Bates College Modern Dance Company concerts this weekend. Performances will be at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 28; at 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, March 29 and 30; and at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 31.The company has assembled two distinct programs […]