Maine College of Art issues honors — and gains kudos — for making Portland a more attractive city.
Avery Yale Kamila
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For local fashionistas: On your mark, get set, swap
Bring items that have worn out their welcome in your closet and take away clothes looking for a new home.
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Natural Foodie: Classes will help cooks find what’s best for them
With a top-notch health food resume behind him, chef Frank Giglio plans to share his food-as-medicine skills in a series of cooking classes starting Thursday. Giglio trained at the New England Culinary Institute in Vermont, known for its emphasis on local, sustainable food, and later studied at the Institute of Integrative Nutrition in New York […]
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Playboy’s Miss June is first centerfold from Maine
Mei-Ling Lam, 27, was Miss Teen Maine USA in 2001. Since then, she has attended Husson College and modeled for companies such as New Balance and Hasbro. Her pictorial spread celebrates her love of the Boston Celtics.
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Society Notebook: They Mean Business
Wednesday was a night to celebrate Junior Achievement and its mission and the new inductees to the Maine Business Hall of Fame.
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The puppets are coming to save the universe
What happens when papier-mache and particle accelerators collide? You get the latest show from the RPM Puppet Conspiracy. Called “Standard Model,” the sci-fi performance by the traveling company (without a home base) comes to Local Sprouts Cooperative Cafe at 7 p.m. Saturday. The tabletop show features a cast of about 10 papier-mache puppets under the […]
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Natural Foodie: Doctors hear uncommon view of food’s role in disease
Renowned nutrition researcher T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., grew up on a dairy farm in Virginia. But last Thursday night at the Holiday Inn by the Bay in Portland, he told the crowd that milk protein “is the most relevant chemical carcinogen ever identified.” Campbell, a professor emeritus at Cornell University and co-author of the best-selling […]
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Society Notebook: Feeding a Need
Good Shepherd’s humanitarian dinner draws a crowd of committed supporters.
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Et Cetera: Festival covers everything India
Saturday’s festival offers a ‘taste of’ henna hand painting, music, dance, food and much more.
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Natural Foodie: Pass law that helps egg farm? Consider history first
Among agricultural states, Maine can be thankful that it has largely escaped the clutches of industrial agricultural and factory farms. However, there is one major exception: the former DeCoster egg farms in Turner. Because of the factory farm’s long history of unsavory activity in Maine and the other states where it operates, lawmakers had DeCoster […]