Our Stories
Duck Tales
September 2012
What they do behind closed doors in California, we do brazenly, out in the open, in Maine. In broad candlelight.
Everyone in Maine is an artistslashcomedian
September 2012 I’m driving on Route 1 in Falmouth behind a silver SUV with the vanity plate FUGAWE. Hello, 1920s vaudeville (look it up–that’s what the Internet is for). The “Church Lady,” the functionary at the Department of Motor Vehicles who decides whether our...
Eventide Oyster Company
Shuck & Thrive Eventide Oyster Company ups the ante for the rest of the bed. Review by Diane Hudson We talk of many things: shoes, ships, sealing wax, cabbages, and kings. But when at Eventide Oyster Company, oysters are the thing. That, and some of the best fried...
Scribblers’ Cove
September 2012
Maine writers love to hit you where you live. But where do they live? Here are just a few touchstones.
Ahead of the Curves
September 2012
So much for lobsters and whoopie pies. Elizabeth Arden broke new ground when she made Maine the cradle of the day spa.
Shanghai Surprise
September 2012
Alex Katz in China: “An American Way of Seeing”
‘Yoshi’s Choice
September 2012
Imagine being a Japanese painter in the Ogunquit Art Colony, learning Pearl Harbor’s been attacked.
Fresh Catch
September 2012
Insider’s tip: The smart money collects what the museums are buying.
Now, Voyager
July/August 2012
Painter, diarist, curator, collector, and globetrotter Edith Cleaves Barry developed her resume from her family mansion on Summer Street in Kennebunk. This completely restored home base can now be yours for $1.425 million.
LFK
The Write Stuff By Diane Hudson Prepare to sound your barbaric yawp of praise over the rooftops of Portland. This is LFK. I feel like I’m in Paris,” quips a friend joining us at one of LFK’s long, dark tables. I agree, taking in the Lost-Gen décor, complete with...
Some Modest Proposals for House Island
July/August 2012 It’s the latest pub talk in the Old Port. What would you do with House Island–if you could pony up the $4.85 million to buy it? John Cougar Mellencamp toured Clapboard Island in Falmouth Foreside after we came out with our “Dream Islands” story...
Picnic @ Griffin Rock
July/August 2012
Does art imitate Maine or Maine imitate art? Cape Elizabeth’s Jeff Kline, executive producer of Transformers: Prime and Rescue Bots, thrives on both sides of the line.
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