Whether you’re a visitor or a local, this food-filled fantasy weekend in Greater Portland has plenty for you.
2021
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
Agnes Bushell’s latest novel blossoms into kaleidoscope
But “The Oracle Pool” is anything but a classic mystery. The plot is non-linear, the living and dead commingle, and the characters are seekers of every stripe.
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Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
Theater review: Monmouth opens with musical exchange of letters in ‘Daddy Long Legs’
The two-hour show about an orphan and her benefactor makes for an entertaining start to the season, but goes on a bit long.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Maine Observer: Take me out to the crowd, please
Consider the best parts of being among others again – cozy library reading rooms, a real ballpark roar and our voices lifted in song at church.
Posted inMaine colleges, Sports, UMaine Sports
Matthew Mulligan comes full circle as a volunteer coach with Black Bears
Matthew Mulligan never played high school football, but went from Howland to Husson to UMaine, and then to the NFL for nine years. Now passing on his knowledge to athletes in Orono.
Posted inBusiness, Maine
On Rockport farm, blueberry grower, solar power developer seek common ground
A new solar array at a blueberry farm seeks to demonstrate how both can thrive, as the state convenes a study group seeking ways to accommodate renewable energy on agricultural land.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
The Maine Millennial: The climate time bomb keeps ticking more loudly
As we continue to make Earth more hospitable to pests and less hospitable to humans, Mainers age 40 and under are going to pay the highest price.
Posted inBooks, Review
Fifty Shades ends on an unexpected feminist note
With ‘Freed,’ James wraps things up. The writing is tediously mechanical, but the message is a surprise.
Posted inObituaries
Obituary: Boyd Herbert Drake
PORTLAND – Boyd Herbert Drake passed away unexpectedly on June 27, 2021 at his home in Portland.
Boyd was born May …