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New Maine Music: 4 Artists to Watch
By Will Grunewald, Brian Kevin, and Adrienne PerronFrom our January 2022 issue Back in January 2020, roughly two years and a lifetime ago, no less an authority than Rolling Stone declared Portland the...
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The Ballroom Thieves’ Former Drummer Traded Music for Pyrography
By Sara Anne DonnellyPhotographed by Danielle SykesFrom our January 2022 issue In the early aughts, when Devin Mauch was a teenager, his mother gave him a pyrography kit for Christmas. It was a basic...
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Front & Main is a Hotel Restaurant Without the Hotel Guests
Clockwise from left: deviled eggs; veggie cakes with beet hummus; scallops By Catie Joyce-BulayPhotographed by Sienna CloughFrom our February 2022 issue Hotel restaurants usually depend on hotel...
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5 Beautiful Easy Escapes in Maine
Though Katie Hatch grew up in Windham, far from Maine’s vast, undeveloped north woods, wilderness excursions always felt within close reach. Tidepooling on secluded beaches, tromping through the...
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I Drove 450 Miles to Eat This Red-Snapper Hot Dog and All-Dressed Potato-Chip...
By Brian KevinFrom our February 2022 issue The website Thrillist, which has made over-the-top food experiments into something of a beat, recently attempted to define a stunt pizza. “Very much an ‘I...
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Chris Toy’s Favorite Maine Place
By Brian KevinFrom our February 2022 issue Cookbook author, educator, and renaissance man Chris Toy is what you’d call an early adopter — which is ironic, in a sense. His parents adopted him from Hong...
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Lobster Pizza: A Critical Inquiry
By Will GrunewaldFrom our February 2022 issue Lobster is great. Pizza is great. In Maine, though, they too often get crossed, and lobster pizza is not great. In fact, it stinks. Or at least that’s how...
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Brooklin Jon Wilson sold WoodenBoat magazine to two longtime employees 47 years after founding the publication in an off-the-grid cabin in nearby Brooksville. The sale also included the company’s two...
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How the PMA Launched the New North Atlantic Triennial
Ilulissat, Disko Bugt, 2021, in progress studio view, graphite, spray paint, and acrylic paint, Dimensions are variable, © Peter Soriano, Photo by Alan Wiener By Michaela CavallaroFrom our March 2022...
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In Winter’s Depths, Glimpses of Spring
Ralston took this photo in the late ’80s, on a visit to Isle au Haut, as winter gave way to spring. “There’s a promising green in that south-facing patch of illuminated grass,” he says, “but if you’ve...
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Features Best Places to Live in Maine Thousands of readers helped us winnow the field. Can you see yourself in one of these eight Maine towns? By Will Grunewald, Brian Keving, and Adrienne Perron The...
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30 Maine Pizzas You Have To Try
By Joel Crabtree, Will Grunewald, Brian Kevin, and Adrienne PerronFrom our February 2022 issue When Nancy English took over as the Portland Press Herald’s food critic in 2005, Maine’s dining scene had...
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Maine Ski and Board Makers Star in New Warren Miller Film
By Adrienne PerronFrom our March 2022 issue When Amy and Phil Taisey got an email last winter from a producer at Warren Miller Entertainment — the Universal Pictures of ski porn — Phil thought it had...
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Can You Name This Iconic Coastal Fort?
A mile off of Maine’s coast, this 19th-century fort is as stunning a sight as its name’s near-homonym suggests. It’s historic too, home to one of the largest surviving Civil War-era guns, a...
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The Unwavering Wolf Truther Who Would Be Maine’s Next Governor
By Peter Andrey SmithPhotographed by Tristan SpinskiFrom our March 2022 issue John Glowa Sr., would-be governor of Maine, meets me in a slush-covered Hannaford parking lot at 7 a.m. Until recently, he...
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The Maine Luthier Blending Eastern and Western Traditions
As told to Monique BrouillettePhotographed by Sienna CloughFrom our February 2022 issue Back in Baghdad, I made ouds for professional musicians who lived in Iraq, Jordan, and Turkey. I would ask them...
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The Historic Shipwreck of the Oakey L. Alexander
By Will GrunewaldFrom our March 2022 issue An ill-tempered blizzard thrashed the Gulf of Maine 75 years ago this month, blowing hurricane-force winds and turning the sea into a welter of deep troughs...
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In Aroostook County, Another Maine Ice Disk (This One With an Outboard)
By Joel CrabtreePhotographed by Jason A. FrankFrom our March 2022 issue On the frozen expanse of Long Lake, in upper Aroostook County, some people enjoy ice fishing, and some enjoy snowmobiling. As...
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Ben’s Picks: Our Favorite Maine Photos
Snowy Portland Head Light PHOTOGRAPHED BY JACK BJORN I love a great graphical approach to a subject. Just look at these shapes! An assortment of rectangles and triangles and the circle of that...
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Searsport’s Splendiferous Sweet Shoppe Is Mad for Hot-Cocoa Bombs
By Will GrunewaldPhotographed by Danielle SykesFrom our March 2022 issue Pass through Searsport and you might spot Alice, of Wonderland renown, in her blue dress and white apron, or the Queen of...
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