Our Stories
Avant Garde
September 2013
Call him a 90-day and a 90-year wonder. To celebrate the start of his tenth decade, modernist Harold Garde has just finished 90 paintings in 90 days.
Portland Museum of Art’s PMA Café
September 2013 Art of the Meal Review by Diane Hudson Try a sensuous stop at the museum cafe Blockbuster art exhibits can make you hungry! The PMA Café, managed by Aurora Provisions, takes museum dining seriously. At first glance, you think…OK, sandwiches, salads....
Our Antipode
September 2013 If you dig straight down, you’ll come out in China, as the saying goes. What a startling cultural disconnect. If you dig straight down, say, from Deering Oaks, the closest civilized spot (I use “civilized” in the lightest sense) on the extreme opposite...
Strangers in a Strange Land
September 2013
You’ll be amazed to see how exotic “local” can be.
Singular Sensations
September 2013
Could an understanding of qualia lead to breakthrough marketing for Maine?
Near East, Downeast
September 2013
Time was, Maine nightclubbers would walk a mile for a camel…because Middle Eastern decor was all the rage.
The Secret Sharer
September 2013
A talented artist sets up her studio in another artist’s Old Port gallery!
A Little Light Music
September 2013
Our urban reflections are Philippe Bergeron’s projections.
Fast Company
July/August 2013 Even with all the traffic zooming along the coast this summer, it isn’t every day the image of a 1968 Mustang Fastback with BULLITT on its Maine license plate rises into view in your rear-view mirror. “I bought this car the same year the Steve McQueen...
Rainy-Day Weird
July/August 2013
“Into each life some rain must fall,” as Portlander Henry Wadsworth Longfellow observed. So when the clouds come out, take the party indoors.
Dolphin Restaurant
July/August 2013
Super-fresh seafood comes with a million-dollar view.
Supply-side Gastronomics
July/August 2013
Exotic wholesalers with a genius for retail chart the middle ground.
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