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Summerguide 2010
What if there were a place where the sun shone, the stars danced, and the ocean murmured just for you? Off Maine’s rocky shores, such places do exist, where it’s all about you.

Bottling Maine

Summerguide 2010
Napa, Burgundy, Tuscany…Maine? With a new bumper crop of passionate winemakers, Maine is cultivating a flavor profile all its own.

Irene Bedard

Irene Bedard

Irene Bedard is out to rescue Native Americana from Hollywood’s cliches.

Forget last summer. “I know what you did this summer.”

Forget last summer. “I know what you did this summer.”

May 2010 Remember this summer? The one that hasn’t happened yet? We do, thanks to the new Zoltar fortune-telling machine we’ve just purchased (wishful thinking) for our Portland Magazine headquarters at 165 State Street. With the help of a roll of quarters and the...

Carson Kressley

Carson Kressley

From “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,” Kressley now stars at Ogunquit Playhouse.

Nosh

May 2010 Raising the Bar On 551 Congress Street, Nosh becomes posh at the new “Kitchen Bar.” By Diane Hudson Walking into Nosh, on the corner of Congress and Oak streets in Portland, my partner whispered “beer and skittles” upon seeing the dozen or so copper tables on...

Good Eye

Good Eye

Joan Whitney Payson’s talent was unearthing masterworks by Picasso, Monet, & Cézanne.

Getting a Jump on Summer

April 2010 Dick Fosbury is known for breaking the Olympic record in the summer of ‘68, but comedy legend and fellow high-jumper Bill Cosby wants to know, “What made you dare to change the world?” Interview by Bill Cosby, Robert Witkowski & Colin W. Sargent Make a...

 

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