The Bowdoin International Music Festival is one of the world’s premier music institutes. Founded in 1964, the Festival engages exceptional students and enthusiastic audiences through world-class ...

Shannon Richards thrives on bringing people together. That, combined with her background in building and design and her deep understanding of Maine, led her to found Hay Runner, a real estate, ...

For most Portlanders, the morning of February 4, 1845, called for huddling at home around the fire. Dark clouds and swirling winds had fouled a stretch of clear weather, and the thermometer hung close ...

Thomaston’s newest fast-casual hotspot, Honey’s Fried Chicken Palace, is on a mission to prove that even fast food can be prepared with care, creativity, and attention to detail. The result is crispy, ...

Portlander Mimi Olins’s creamy, free-form stoneware is a perfect foil for menu items at the city’s swanky Twelve restaurant and James Beard Award–winning Zu Bakery (owned by her husband, Barak) — and ...

The first time Josh Rowan laid eyes on Hindu was in 2007, when he agreed to captain it for a friend who ran a charter company in the Florida Keys and Massachusetts. The 1925 schooner had been ...

Taken together, these communities possess the best that Maine has to offer: striking vistas, working waterfronts, charming downtowns, and a mix of summer residents and long-time locals working hard to ...

In an industrial park in South Portland’s Cash Corner neighborhood, wedged between auto-body garages and equipment suppliers, a sign with a rainbow bursting out of a welding helmet marks the entrance ...

“We’re trying to take a really beautiful space and use it as our family needs it, versus being so careful about it,” Heather Jackson says, referring to the “indestructible” ...