The Maine Summer Shorts Festival celebrates the thriving local film community.
Avery Yale Kamila
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This Picnic promises to be a feast for eyes and ears
Don’t expect snowmen fashioned from Styrofoam balls or apple-stenciled wall plaques at this Saturday’s Picnic Music+Arts Festival in Portland’s Lincoln Park. Instead, this annual indie craft fair serves up a decidedly funkier assortment of goods, such as handknit fingerless gloves, handstitched felt monsters and handmade rubber couture. Mixed in with the crafters will be vendors […]
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Natural Foodie: Schools’ fresh approachbears fruit (and vegetables)
As kids return to the classrooms, they’ll find lots of local produce on the lunch menus – some of it grown in their districts’ own gardens.
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Society Notebook: All hands
From organizers to attendees, the community comes through for a good cause at Harborfest: the search for a cure for multiple sclerosis.
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Et Cetera: Relaxed fit
Maine fashion bloggers capture the easy, breezy style – part boho, part Bean boot, all effortless cool – of the state.
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Natural Foodie: Investors plant the seeds for slow money
Mainers are getting behind the effort to fast-track the slow money movement, to the ultimate benefit, they believe, of those who grow – and eat – local food.
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Society Notebook:A new chapter
The Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance says farewell to one leader and welcomes another.
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Et Cetera: What’s all the hoopla?
The newest fitness trend may look familiar – it’s hula hooping, and it’s whittling waists right here in Maine.
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Natural Foodie: Backyard Locavore Tour will cover a lot of ground
After more than 300 people bought tickets to last year’s inaugural Backyard Locavore Tour, the organizers are getting ready for another oversized crowd when the edible garden excursion returns this Saturday. Unlike more typical garden tours, this event highlights plots growing vegetables, fruits and herbs, with a few offering a glimpse of small livestock husbandry […]
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Society Notebook:Homer’s view
Portland Museum of Arts supporters gather for a party at the famous painter’s seaside studio on Prouts Neck.