There are operas, musicals, plays, concerts and dance festivals from Berwick to Bangor and multiple venues in between.
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The Maine moms who make their restaurants happen
For Mother’s Day, we checked in with Gray’s Two Mums Kitchen and Lisbon’s Two Moms Diner.
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These Maine food writers pour out their creativity – and recipes – on Substack
The platform offers them creative freedom to write about subjects that range from unfamiliar figures in America’s wine world to running a pizza parlor in small-town Maine.
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Maine author Elizabeth Strout’s new book is set away, for a change
‘The Things We Never Say’ comes out May 5 and is set in a coastal Massachusetts town. Strout won the Pulitzer Prize for ‘Olive Kitteridge,’ one of her Maine-set novels.
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Opera in the Pines takes its audience to ‘A Masked Ball’ for its 5th anniversary production
The Verdi opera, which puts the audience right in the action, will be at Poland Spring Resort this month.
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Portland comic arts festival draws on the indie scene
Comic Arts Maine Portland, which began in 2025, will feature exhibitors, workshops and panels with comics creators on Saturday.
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Maine Voices Live with Ryan Adams, muralist and artist
On Tuesday, Sept. 8, at 7 p.m. at One Longfellow Square, Portland Press Herald executive editor Carolyn Fox will sit down with Ryan Adams, muralist and artist, to discuss “street art” and its potential for creating a community narrative.
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Watch: Maine Voices Live with the Maine Cabin Masters
We were live on-stage with the cast of the Maine Cabin Masters as part of our Maine ADU Housing Expo. Watch the video below.
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Her husband built Ogunquit’s art museum. Decades later, Maggie Strater finally gets her spotlight.
Strater was a fellow patron of art in the community, but was overlooked in the shadow of her husband.
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For Maine’s Episcopal bishop, food is more than pleasure. It’s community.
Bishop Thomas Brown happily cooks and talks food, but for him, there’s a spiritual component, too.