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Shaking Up the Sidecar

Shaking Up the Sidecar

February/March 2011 What a blast to crack open the Washington Post’s Metro section and run into breathless posturing (even lecturing!) about how the Sidecar should properly be served. The cocktail has as many inventors as baseball, ice cream, or Facebook, but here’s...

Hug’s Italian Restaurant

February/March 2011 By Diane Hudson Base Camp Sugarloaf's beloved Italian hot spot comes down from the mount to delight Falmouth diners. Located in the former haunts of Johnny’s Bistro, Hug’s Italian Restaurant is rapidly assembling a fan base that includes regular...

A Man for All That

February/March 2011
Stepping down after a decade as city manager, Joe Gray reflects on Portland’s startling changes since he arrived here from Madison, Wisconsin, 41 years ago.

Incomparable You

Incomparable You

February/March 2011
Banks blink. Assessors scratch their heads. How do you establish a value for one-of-a-kind houses that are both lovable and wacky-doodle?

Modernism’s Beachhead

February/March 2011
Why did Blue Hill Pavilion, Maine’s most exciting structure of 1946, last just a dozen years before it was deemed “too New York” and demolished? ’Twas provincial taste that killed the beast.

You Go, Peekytoe!

You Go, Peekytoe!

Winterguide 2011 By Colin W. Sargent We’re eating crab cakes in Todd Jurich’s Bistro in Norfolk, Virginia, when the waiter drops us with, “These are made with fresh crab from Maine.” But this is Crabtown, USA! “Chesapeake Bay crabs go dormant from December through...

The Salt Exchange

Winterguide 2011 By Diane Hudson Jacques Brel* 'Likes' This… *Theatricality is alive and well and living in the Old Port at The Salt Exchange. Tonight, our stop is nothing short of fantastic. First, we slide into a precious parking space reserved for Salt Exchange...

Eat 3.0

Winterguide 2011
Get your plate out of the past and back to the future. How? Ditch the stuffy 1980s “foodie” label and get ready for some lip-smacking fun right here in Maine.

Found in Translation

Winterguide 2011
Internationally famous poet Robert Pinsky’s March 7 pilgrimage to Henry Longfellow’s “beautiful town that is seated by the sea” in support of a Portland Museum of Art show creates an astral pairing of America’s first translator of Dante’s Inferno with his own, astonishing modern version.

 

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