Our Stories
Edgeless In Vacationland
April 2014
We cling to our illusions up here at the end of the world.
Posh Spice
April 2014
Maine is the last place on Earth you’d expect to find fresh spices…unless you know where to look.
Orchid Thai
Falmouth Feast Orchid Thai–the newest bloom in Pom's bouquet. Review by Diane Hudson High-concept cuisine at Pom Boobphachati’s Orchid Thai is redefining fine dining in Falmouth. During our recent visit, we warmed ourselves with heavenly Tom Yum hot-and-sour soup, its...
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April 2014 Where do web pages go when they die? If you see Error: 404, it means the page isn’t there anymore. So much for the eternal promise of the Internet. We ran into a real-life analog of this recently when one of our staff members stopped at 30 Preble Street to...
Maine To Go
April 2014
See Maine as others see us, flipping through the travel guide books & internet ratings. We can help you read between the lines.
Sign Of The Times
April 2014
We may not know who put the salt in the ocean. But we’ve found the guy who put up the first Time & Temperature sign.
Shoe Music
At Portland’s First Fridays, the art’s inside and out.
David’s KPT
February/March 2014 River Dance Sleek & chic in K-port. Review by Diane Hudson Nestling into a private, sunlit nook at David’s KPT, we feel downright pampered in this modern space that envelopes us like a luxury liner or private yacht. We’re right on the Kennebunk...
Pizza Diplomacy
February/March 2014
A visit aboard a Soviet fish-processing ship off the coast of Rockland in 1990 is a lesson in Glasnost.
The W.E.B. Du Bois Files
February/March 2014
For decades, the FBI tailed him. But every summer, for two weeks in July, the inspirational leader disappeared… to a lake in Maine.
Voice of America
February/March 2014
Who knew there was so much important history in a stately Portland home across the street from Cheverus High School?
Whatever Happened to Barbara DiNinno?
February/March 2014
The former Maine Maritime Academy midshipman was lost at sea. But who “losted” her?
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