Our Stories
April 2011
One Family’s Autumn
Autum Aquino, 6, and her family face AIDS.
Maine’s Misfits
The pretty horses that dot the pastures at Bush Brook Farm do not have pretty pasts.
The W.E.B. Du Bois Files
Every summer the African-American intellectual leader disappeared to a lake in Maine.
Buck’s Naked BBQ
April 2011 By Diane Hudson Northern Comfort Buck's 'Naked' lunch and dinner is down & delicious–roadhouse style. Upon entering the rough but warm roadhouse atmosphere, immediately it hits you–the aroma of good, old-fashioned barbecue. The sweet, smoky scent is...
What’s 25 Years Between Friends?
April 2011
“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either
side that there’s no room for the present at all.” –Evelyn Waugh
Lost Horizon
April 2011
In the mid-1980s, One City Center rose from the geomancy of The Golden Triangle, a miracle of urban feng shui. But with the build-up of the rest of the Old Port, can the wind meet its water?
Leading Lady
April 2011
Rachel Nichols is Sooo…in The Loop
Cruise Control
April 2011
Portland will host a record 59 cruise ships this year, carrying over 89,000 passengers. Show us the money!
Silver Linings
April 2011 “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”* “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”** To celebrate the silver anniversary of Portland Magazine’s April 1986 debut–for which I’m so deeply grateful to our...
Whatever Happened To Barbara DiNinno
The woman who got kicked out of Maine Maritime Academy for not wearing her uniform.




