Chef Mimi Weissenborn will compete against 14 other rising star chefs for the largest grand prize in show history.
Life & Culture
Stories about life, culture, entertainment and arts from the Portland Press Herald.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Life & Culture, Maine
Penobscot basket maker Theresa Secord wins $100,000 award
Secord was the founding director of the Maine Indian Basket Makers Alliance for 21 years, and her work is in private collections and museums across the country.
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Posted inHealth, Maine
Maine scientists concerned by pause in health reports, other disruptions at federal DHHS
The Trump administration’s ban on communications and move to halt other activities could affect Maine research centers if they continue beyond this week.
Posted inAnimals, Maine, News
Maine airports seek exemption from wildlife protection laws
Aviation officials and businesses say a bill to exempt airports from state protections for Maine’s endangered or threatened species would prevent wildlife collisions, but environmental groups say the protections are needed.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Life & Culture, Maine
Portland Ballet goes to Colby College. The assignment? Create a new work from scratch.
Eleven Colby students are working alongside the professional dance company on a new piece inspired by Maine’s landscape, history and lighthouses to be performed in Westbrook and Waterville.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This
How the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles came home to Maine
‘Final First Edition’ is a brisk, stylish, cheeky-but-reverent portrait of fandom as organizing life principle.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This
Half Waif live in Portland, new indie folk from Mainer Schmoon
Half Waif performs at One Longfellow Square on Thursday.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Life & Culture
Bestsellers: ‘Small Things Like These,’ ‘The Let Them Theory’
The week’s top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Nonesuch Books & More in South Portland.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Life & Culture
What reading about dead people tells us about life
The best obituaries, those that are most enjoyable to read, juxtapose obvious public accomplishments with the sheer strangeness of people’s lives.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Lewiston-Auburn
Maine kids experiment with music at Meet the Instruments event
Before a concert by the Midcoast Symphony Orchestra in Lewiston, children got to blow into a tuba, a variety of horns and a bassoon while learning about orchestras.