Behind the museum wall is a climate controlled environment. It’s not too cold and not too warm. But you still need to keep your gloves on. The storage area for the Bates College Museum of Art’s permanent collection contains 4,500 objects, the majority are works of art on paper. “Works on paper are sort of […]

To hair is human Turns out that human hair is just fantastic for mopping up oil, like the stuff gushing from undersea down there in the Gulf of Mexico. The solution is obvious: snatch bald every BP executive and then go to work on anyone who has ever uttered the line “drill, baby drill.” Form […]

How many times have you seen signs for an American Indian Museum and thought — right or wrong — “another tourist trap.” Maybe it offered a display of arrowheads or, more likely, “American Indian crafts” for sale that were made in Japan or China. Well, that was my assumption until recently, when I found a […]

Maine native Conni Labbe LaDouceur String knows how to match talented employees with companies in need. With an annual budget over a $1 million, her firm, ExecuQuest Corp., researches, sources, trains and consults for companies all over the world on how to hire the best people. An HIV-AIDS expert for Catholic Relief Services, people responsible […]

Good morning. Happy Mother’s Day to all of you. It is so nice to be back and to say “Happy spring,” which did come early this year – yeah! There is forsythia in every direction, the daffodils and tulips are popping, and the cherries are bringing their abundance of blossoms, hopefully to be followed by […]

The 24 most common cooking mistakes and how to avoid them By Ann Taylor Pittman Cooking Light magazine Every cook, being human, errs, bungles, botches, flubs and screws up in the kitchen once in a while. If you have not “caramelized” fruit in salt rather than sugar (hey, it looked like sugar!), you have not […]

In 2005 while on a training run for a marathon, Eric Agren Agren saw a For Sale sign on a building at 49 Lisbon St. in downtown Lewiston, the old Lyceum Hall, and 3 months later he and his wife Carrie bought the property. At first glance the Agrens saw the potential but the restoration […]

LEWISTON– I don’t know quite what to expect. It’s the second Friday night of the new year, ten minutes before 8, and I’m reflecting on the frigid city beyond the enormous window of the Lewiston Public Library’s Callahan Hall, when my attention is broken by Kim Roberts calling out, “Okay folks, let’s try one,” over […]