If you see a show at Thompson’s Point this summer, note the fencing, the lighting, the porta-potties – these are just some of the visible results of Adam Jackson’s work, which every year starts around Christmas. Once a band has locked in a date at Thompson’s Point, Jackson is the next person the tour manager […]

As the wig shop coordinator at Ogunquit Playhouse, Roxanne De Luna’s job can require everything from managing people’s schedules to creating a whole person out of thin air. Building a dead body from scratch for the 2019 production of “Murder on the Orient Express” was one of the biggest and most rewarding challenges of De […]

When people find out that Holly Duigan works at the Bridgton Twin Drive-In, they always ask her whether she watches the movies that are showing. Between serving up hot dogs and popcorn, checking to make sure car lights are off and dealing with people whose batteries have died, she usually doesn’t have time – unless […]

It was 1988 when, according to food nerd lore, Ben and Bill’s Chocolate Emporium in Bar Harbor pioneered lobster ice cream. That flavor itself may not have exactly swept the globe, but it helped awaken the public’s appetite for unusual – and unusually imaginative – ice cream flavors. These days, incarnations once considered adventurous (think […]

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The former Portland High School physics teacher has been with the team since 2000.