June 2010

Burgers

A-LIST-June 2010 By Joe Ricchio Photograph by Jonathan Laurence   01 Five Fifty-Five This one satisfies the “gourmet burger” category. Usually the chefs make a made-from-scratch version of a “junk-food burger.” 555 Congress St. | Portland | 207.761.0555 02 Harmon’s

98 Provence

EAT FEATURE-June 2010 By Samantha Hoyt Lindgren Photographs by Kristin Teig Hundreds of restaurants line Route 1 in Ogunquit. Samantha Hoyt Lindgren goes inside the 15-year-old restaurant you probably haven’t heard of.   On a cool April afternoon, with a

Richard Russo

PROFILE-June 2010 By Peter A. Smith Photographs by Jarrod McCabe Novelist, screenwriter Discussed: The language of Hollywood, book publishing technology, downeast accents, hot sex, real estate, and the Pulitzer Prize Richard Russo is packing up for a trip to Amherst,

Roxanne Quimby

PROFILE-June 2010 By Peter A. Smith Photographs by Jarrod McCabe Artist, entrepreneur, tireless supporter of the arts First she went back to the land. Now, she’s returning to her childhood passion: art. This summer, Burts Bee’s founder Roxanne Quimby plans

Trek Across Maine

FEATURE-June 2010 By Peter A. Smith Photographs by Karsten Moran and Adam K. Macchia 26 YEARS  183 MILES  $13 MILLION 750 VOLUNTEERS  1,400 LBS GRAPES + 2,600 BICYCLISTS 1 KILLER BIKE RACE The Trek Across Maine is a Father’s Day

Matinicus Island

FEATURE-June 2010 By Jason Brown Photographs by Michael Heiko Maps by Jennifer Judd-Mcgee Out past Isle au Haut, past Monhegan, past Metinic, approximately 22 miles out in the middle of the Gulf of Maine, sits Matinicus Island, a 750-acre granite

Stuart Kestenbaum

POETRY-June 2010 Poem by Stuart Kestenbaum Edited by Christopher Seid Artwork by Betsy Thompson   “Open Window” In the perfect cartoon world the pie is placed to cool at the window, the fragrance of apple and cinnamon rising in the air,

Sonya Tomlinson

FEATURE-June 2010 By Katie E. Fuller Photographs by Michael Winters Styling by Hannah Tarkinson Steel yourself. She’ll steal your heart. She’s Sonya Tomlinson, AKA Sontiago. It’s hip-hop with love. Intelligent rhymes coming at you from Portland, Maine.   When hip-hop

James Mullen

SEE-June 2010 By Deborah Weisgall Bear Island 2009, oil on canvas, 12” x 48” Though James Mullen grew up inland, in rural New Jersey, he was always drawn to the ocean. He painted the coast of Maine even during graduate school