An Ogunquit Playhouse production opens in Las Vegas.
By Colin W. Sargent
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L’Esprit de L’Escalier: Guardian Angels
The charm of these WWI tokens endures. December 2018 | view this story as a .pdf By Rhea Côté Robbins In my search for the vestiges of my Franco-American culture, once lost to me, something else was recently revealed. Initially, I was looking for milagro—miracles in...
Still Bad to the Bone
April 2018
It’s unlikely George Thorogood and The Destroyers will be drinking alone upon their return to Aura in Portland, April 22.
An Interview with Hamilton Star Leslie Odom Jr.
November 2017
Colin W. Sargent of Portland Monthly checks in with the Hamilton star ahead of his visit to see how hungry he is for a taste of Maine.
Gentleman’s Agreement
“Klan Wins Victory At Portland Polls,” trumpeted on September 11, 1923. “Vote Breaks All Records, Disorder Marks Election.”
Bow Spirits
There was a time when no good ship sailed from Casco Bay without a figurehead beneath her bow. The finest came from Portland’s Nahum Littlefield, a master of this lost American art.
Special: Caitlyn Jenner’s Maine Connection (our interview with the decathlon gold-medal winner, April 1996)
April
A worldwide audience watched as Mainer Steve Elliot leaped over the stands at the Montreal Olympics in 1976…
The Weekend
It was their anniversary. He surprised her with a weekend trip to the lake house. He hoped a weekend away might help. He wanted her to forgive him.
Viva La Selva
May 2013
After she survived the Titanic sinking, socialite Madeleine Astor, 19, came to her Bar Harbor cottage, La Selva, to mourn her newlywed husband John Jacob Astor IV.
Happy Campers
May 2013
Recreational Vehicle (RV) travel is beyond a moving experience. The real magic happens when you’re standing still.
Lazy Man’s Shipwrecks
May 2013
Sometimes you just feel like a wreck.
Search for the Alpha Salmon
May 2013
Wild or farmed? Atlantic or Pacific? Maine-raised or jetted in from Scotland? Omega 3 or Omega 6?