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Renaissance Revival

April 2013
Portland has hotel fever–big, beautiful showplaces are in the works, with restaurants and event spaces. If we build them, will they come?

Français où Franco?

April 2013
We’re a food-crazy border state, so where are the starry Franco-American restaurants?

Zero Dark Seventeen

April 2013
We call it art when Oliver Stone and Katherine Bigelow fictionalize warfare and violence on screen, so why do we slap their wrists when Brunswick teen filmmakers do the same thing?

Mid-Century Marvel

February/March 2013
When you’re not collaborating on the Met Life building in Manhattan, what do you dream up in Maine?

One Thousand and One Bites

February/March 2013
It’s a 10-day safari, a whirlwind of culinary excursions from March 1-10. The question is, do you dare to risk trying something new?

AR (to) GO

Winterguide 2013
The true story of Chef Sam Sriweawnetr’s bravery during the 1979 hostage crisis may have been left out of the hit movie Argo, but not out of the historical record.

Lindbergh Slept Here

Winterguide 2013
A glamorous anomaly with a past–a tiled Spanish beachfront villa designed by John Calvin Stevens–maintains her dignity against all odds.

The Big Bank Theory 2013

December 2012
As the curtain rises on 2013, local banks and credit unions hope to win your approval. How does yours compare?

Moveable Feasts

Novemeber 2012
Twenty-first century Flash Soirées, where celebrity chefs stage one-night-only parties in borrowed venues, are standing restaurateurship on its head.