Make plans for 2011! Ongoing events Androscoggin Bank Colisee, 190 Birch St., Lewiston. Home of the MAINEiacs hockey team, local youth hockey, and public skating. Venue for the Shrine Circus, graduation ceremonies, Androscoggin Business to Business Trade Show, and more. Visit http://www.thecolisee.com for more information. Auburn Public Library, 49 Spring St., Auburn. Great resource for […]

Going out to a nice restaurant intimidate you? Feel like Miss Manners would stare and shake her head at you helplessly? One little mistake centuries ago and you still don’t feel comfortable going out to eat at a restaurant that doesn’t use plastic utensils? Relax. You know how to behave in a nice restaurant, and […]

Back in the 1950s, eating out usually meant going to a diner. While the interior of diners may not have been fancy, the food was cooked fresh, served hot and tasted delicious. One of the best things about eating at a diner was hearing the waitress call out an order to the short order cook […]

Sitting down to dinner at a properly set table can be a little anxiety-inducing. What fork to use first? Is this the dessert spoon or is it for soup? Equally challenging can be the host or hostess in charge of setting the table for a formal dinner. Many people are a bit perplexed as to […]

There are noisemakers, map programs, camera add-ons, voice changers, restaurant raters. And oh yeah. Angry Birds. So what are your favorite apps? What are the one, two or five bits of binary genius that changed your life for the better? The B-Section wants to know, whether they’re for the most popular devices or lowly non-Apple, […]

Could someone explain to me why we’re almost a week into the spring training schedule and the Red Sox have yet to be televised? You’ve got two big free agent additions (granted, one hasn’t taken a swing in anger yet), you’ve got numerous stars returning from season-ending injuries, you’ve got some new bullpen arms, and […]

The wait continues for Edward Little and Dirigo. Basketball regional championship games at Augusta Civic Center and Bangor Auditorium — already pushed back from the weekend due to Friday’s snowstorm — were called off again as a result of Monday’s messy weather. Edward Little’s quest for a third consecutive Eastern Class A championship against Bangor […]

Furnishing and decorating your home with antiques is a labor of love. Just ask someone like Catherine Gregoire of Lewiston. Over the past 22 years, she and her husband, Richard, have fashioned a photograph-worthy home from a mix of antique furniture and personal collections of antique glass, prints, and conversation pieces. “This is my heart,” […]

CFLs and LEDs. Thomas Edison would be amazed. The inventor who made significant improvements in the incandescent light bulb would be pleased that his work continues today with technology that hasn’t changed much in over 130 years. His amazement would come from seeing the next generation of bulbs to invade the market; specifically compact fluorescent […]

When Cindi and Larry Holbrook decided to renovate their Auburn home they didn’t mess around. They tore off the entire top story, down to the floorboards, and they didn’t stop there. Built in the 1920s, the house had been through a lot of changes before the Holbrooks lived there and was a patchwork of afterthought […]