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reviewed by Diane Hudson July/Aug 2006 You wouldn’t expect to find a four-star restaurant with delicate flavors, stunning presentation, an enormously creative menu, and a shimmer of nostalgia tucked into the desultory retail pur-ga-tory that includes Bedderest and The...

Reviewed By Diane Hudson June 2006 A favorite summer outing for us has long been a day trip to the Ogunquit Museum of American Art, de-scribed by Francis Henry Taylor of the Metropolitan Museum of Art as “the most beautiful little museum in the world.” But where to...

reviewed by Diane Hudson May 2006 When young people leave the nightclubs in Saigon–our family has never called it Ho Chi Minh City– the whole city smells like pho," says Lien Luong, 37, cook at Thanh Thanh 2, a Viet-namese restaurant on Forest Avenue in Portland....

reviewed by Diane Hudson April 2006 Artemisia, like its namesake, 17-century painter Artemisia Gentileschi, the first women member of Florence’s fabled Academy of Design and the inspiration for the controversial film Arte-misia and Susan Vree-land’s The Passion of...

reviewed by Diane Hudson Feb 2006 Harding Lee Smith, former executive chef at Mims and sous chef at Back Bay Grill, is packing the house nightly at The Front Room on the crest of Munjoy Hill, conveniently opposite theater events at St. Lawrence Arts and Community...