Maine Magazine Archive
January Greendrinks
THERE + THEN- March 2010
Photography by Jonathan Laurence
The first Greendrinks of 2010 brought together Maine and the VIA Group at the Portland advertising agency’s Danforth Street headquarters.
Rogues Gallery
By Michael Williams
Photographed by Mikael Kennedy
On the fourth floor of a building on 26th Street in New York City, there is an enclave of nautical New England, a space full of the lore of the Atlantic, a celebration of seafarers and grizzly wharf types. At first glance you might think you stumbled into a fishermen museum in downtown Portland rather than the New York showroom and part-time creative center of the Maine-based clothing label Rogues Gallery.
Back to the Future
By Peter A. Smith
Photographs by Nathan Eldridge
Walk into Bubba’s Sulky Lounge in Portland on a Friday night and you’re bound to hear Depeche Mode’s “Just Can’t Get Enough” and Erasure’s “Always.” What do they have in common? The man behind the irresistible pop songs, who has written and programmed three decades’ worth of uberbuoyant music, lives and works in Walpole, Maine. Step into Vince Clarke’s fantastic Futuristic world.
See: Lisa Pixley
Mary Todd
2009, charcoal, Red Rose tea on paper,
crepe paper, 38” diameter
Written by Deborah Weisgall
Eat Maine: Portland
Every month in Eat Maine the staffers at Maine. magazine will share our knowledge, as well as information garnered from our readers and Eat Maine fans, about the many must-go places to eat in the state. This month we’re turning to Portland and a selection of restaurants serving a specially priced three-course meal for Restaurant Week, March 1–10. For a full listing of all participating restaurants around the state go to mainerestaurantweek.com
William Pope.L
WORKSHOP-March 2010
Photograph by Meggan Gould
Artist William Pope.L is a performance artist best known for his series of crawls, the most ambitious being The Great White Way, a five-year project in which he crawled on his hands and knees from the Statue of Liberty to the Bronx. His multidisciplinary art practice often challenges and confronts constructions of race. He has lived in Lewiston for the last 18 years and teaches at Bates College.
Cocktails
Jan/Feb 2010
By Joe Ricchio | Photograph by Maria Alexandra Vettese
El Camino Cantina: Lowrider Margarita
Not only are the margaritas delicious, but you’ll feel like you’ve wandered onto the set of a Quentin Tarantino film. A perfect neighborhood bar.
15 Cushing St. | Brunswick | 207.725.8228
Brooklin Boatyard
WORKSHOP-Jan/Feb 2010
Photograph by Meggan Gould
The yard specializes in custom design, building, and restoration. It—along with the town’s eight other boatyards and WoodenBoat Magazine—has transformed Brooklin into an epicenter of wooden boatbuilding.
48 Hours...Bethel
Jan/Feb 2010 by Kristen Andresen Lainsbury | Photography by Amanda Kowalski | Illustration by Karen Gelardi
Where apres-ski can mean beer, barbecue, or bibimbap. Two days on the slopes, at the spa, and in luxury shops.
Ice Shacks
Jan/Feb 2010
Photographs by Scott Peterman
Guys go out for a lot of different reasons. Mostly it’s about getting away. Shacks are kind of like treehouses for grown men.
The Nordic Heritage Center is a X-Country Skier’s Paradise
March 2010
Written by Sarah E. Getchell / Photographs by Nick LaVecchia + Tim Doak
Deep in the wild expanse of the northern Maine woods, there is a red Swedish-style lodge that lures both Olympic athletes and recreational skiers to Presque Isle. It’s 300 miles from Portland, a stone’s throw from Canada, and in the northeastern corner of the largest, least-populated county east of the Mississippi.
Read more: The Nordic Heritage Center is a X-Country Skier’s Paradise
Gone to Maine
Jan/Feb 2010
Written + Photographed by Jonathan Levitt
Artists come to Maine. They always have. And when they come to Maine they work. Maybe it’s because Maine is a beautiful place, and an industrious place, and a magical place. Maybe it’s because Maine is close to the rest of the art world, but feels so far away. Maybe it’s because they can be here, but while they are here, they can be alone, each in their own world. Some stay the summer, and then return to their suburb or their big city and they miss this place. Others come, and they stay, and they keep staying.
Kim Swan
PROFILE-Jan/Feb 2010
By Chelsea Holden Baker | Photograph by Nathan Eldridge
Maverick realtor, business addict, life of the party
Ask Kim Swan what she does for a living and she’ll say, “real estate.” Which is true, except that Swan may have the most expansive definition of “real estate” in the business.
Walking Life
Jan/Feb 2010
By Chelsea Holden Baker | Photography by Kristin Teig
The West End, Portland
If John Calvin Stevens had his way, his pièce de résistance would sit on Portland’s Western Promenade today. Instead of a bronze of Thomas Brackett Reed, Stevens’s state capitol building (modeled on Brunelleschi’s dome in Florence) would command the view of the White Mountains from the center of the promenade. And since airports aren’t built in view of rotundas, the jetport wouldn’t have been built in Stroudwater. The Fore River might have become a sanctuary. Hospitals might have been government complexes. And the Blaine House would likely be the Leighton House.
But the late-nineteenth-century bid to move the state capital to Portland was unsuccessful, and one of the state’s oldest neighborhoods, remained a neighborhood.
Chelsea Holden Baker spoke with eight people about their experience of the West End.
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