TRAVELIN’ MAINE(RS): SWITZERLAND IN MAINE: Lucern Inn offers great food and views with the feel of Europe

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March 8, 2012

TRAVELIN’ MAINE(RS): SWITZERLAND IN MAINE: Lucern Inn offers great food and views with the feel of Europe

The Lucerne Inn was established in 1800, 10 years after our Mount Vernon home. We’re suckers for old places.We’ve driven by this magnificent inn hundreds of times on our way Down East, but never stopped. We won’t make that mistake again.
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March 8, 2012

BOOKS: Best sellers for the week of March 8

Publishers Weekly best-seller list
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March 8, 2012

BOOKS: ‘Snow Child’ is a chilling tale

“The Snow Maiden” is a Russian folk tale that has been told, written, sung and danced. Versions exist throughout Europe, but the original story refers to an aging couple, a woodcutter and his wife, who are unable to have a child. One day, they build a child from snow and the child comes alive, only to disappear each spring and reappear with the first snow.
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March 8, 2012

BOOKS: Frank DeCaro spent years hunting for stars’ recipes for ‘The Dead Celebrity Cookbook’

Frank DeCaro, the author of “The Dead Celebrity Cookbook,” is contemplating a bite of Greer Garson’s capirotada. Dressed in a red-and-white checked shirt and a red apron with one red and one black oven mitt by his side, the former “Daily Show” film critic and Sirius Radio talk show host looks somewhat befuddled. He pushes his thick, black-rimmed glasses up on his nose and chews slowly.
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March 8, 2012

Boogie2Shooz

Boogie2Shooz is an Augusta-based duo made up of Patti-Jean Cousens and Pamela Jenkins. Both singer/musicians are in education in the Capital area. Jenkins teaches in the University of Maine at Augusta's music department and Cousens works at Cony High School in Augusta. The duo will perform at 2 p.m. Sunday, March 11, at UMA's Jewett Hall. The concert will be presented by and benefit the UMA Senior College.

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March 8, 2012

‘SHAME’ is a thirsty evil

Michael Fassbender is with us again, fresh from playing Carl Jung in "A Dangerous Method," and the imprisoned Irish rebel Bobby Sand in Steve McQueen's "Hunger." Here, in McQueen's "Shame," Fassbender once again gives us a fierce, throttling performance as Brandon Sullivan, a midtown denizen of the 123rd-floor high-finance world. Brandon is a handsome, chilling piece of work. A man who has arranged his life in neat circles and cubes free of dirt and debris.
Published
March 1, 2012

TRAVELIN’ MAINE(RS): WINTER ‘CAMPING’ adventure in the shadow of Mount Katahdin

Snow-covered Mount Katahdin is hard to ignore, right there across Millinocket Lake from our perch in the River Driver’s Pub. There’s no prettier dining spot in Maine.
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March 1, 2012

BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: Heart of a Killer, Tales from Misery Ridge

New books from Maine authors
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March 1, 2012

BOOKS: Publishers Weekly Best sellers March 1

Best sellers for the week of Mar. 1
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March 1, 2012

BOOKS: Slave-era novel an empowering narrative

Set in the darkest heart of plantation-era slavery, “The Healing” is a remarkable rite-of-passage novel with an unforgettable character, a forceful medicine woman named Polly Shine.