The time has come, as the Walrus said, to reflect back on the most memorable musical events of 2011. I hadn’t realized there were so many. To begin with, all of the Christmas concerts (at least the ones I was able to attend) were outstanding. The Portland Symphony Orchestra’s “Magic of Christmas” shone brightly by returning […]

SACO – The Saco Museum celebrates hooked rug innovator and entrepreneur Edward S. Frost with the show “Rugs All Marked Out,” opening Jan. 14. Frost launched a rug-pattern business in Biddeford in the mid-19th century. Originally presented at the Maine State Museum in 2006, “Rugs All Marked Out” features rugs, burlap patterns and metal stencils […]

I visited Plush, a new tapas bar and lounge in Portland’s West End neighborhood, in mid-December to see what kind of dinner a group might cobble together from small plates amid the chic bar scene. A satisfying one, as it turned out. Two clusters of lounge seating occupy one side of the entrance of this […]

Christmas is when many of us spend more time standing in lines at the post office than any other time of the year. Have you ever wondered about those postal clerks and the passions of their private lives? One of the most famous postal clerks in America right now (though retired) is a guy named […]

Father Tom is a delightful Maine coon, the parish cat of Temptation of Christ Church in a new book by Cape Elizabeth’s J.R. Mackenzie.

Wade Davis finds that the mountain’s conquerors had complex motivations.