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Mt. Desert Island Ice Cream is open at 51 Exchange St. in Portland, just in time for summer. The Bar Harbor-based business is famous for outside-the-box flavors, including salt caramel, Thai chili coconut and chocolate wasabi, along with blueberry basil sorbet. The little building at the corner of Washington Avenue and Congress Street in Portland’s […]

Maine’s asparagus season is off and running. Grocery stores and farmers markets have displays of the green spears with their tight purplish tips that Marcel Proust described in “Swann’s Way” as “delicately painted in little strokes of mauve and azure.” Proust, of course, was remembering the French asparagus of his childhood, but Maine’s looks just […]

Greater Portland Auditions, Calls for Art  Seeking Artists and Crafters for craft sale at Columbia Club in Portland on June 5, FMI, email Jill S. Kelly, jskellydesigns@mac.com. Sunday 6/6 Musica de Filia Auditions, girls choir for grades 2-12, 4-6 p.m., June 7-8, to schedule audition, call Cyndy, 807-2158, Musica de Filia Girlchoir and Women’s Choir, […]

Greater Portland Auditions, Calls for Art  Seeking Artists and Crafters for craft sale at Columbia Club in Portland on June 5, FMI, email Jill S. Kelly, jskellydesigns@mac.com. Sunday 6/6 Musica de Filia Auditions, girls choir for grades 2-12, 4-6 p.m., June 7-8, to schedule audition, call Cyndy, 807-2158  Musica de Filia Girlchoir and Women’s Choir, […]

PORTLAND — Back in 1991, art collectors Peggy and Dr. Harold Osher gave the Portland Museum of Art a near complete collection of the graphic works of Winslow Homer, more than 450 prints both loose and bound in 19th century books and magazines. Due to the light sensitivity of the paper upon which Homer’s illustrations […]

Sometimes the places we think we know well, we really don’t. For decades we have driven along Portland’s Eastern Promenade, enjoying the views out over Casco Bay, sometimes stopping briefly at the circular drive by the Fort Allen Park gazebo to check out the flashing light of distant Portland Head Light. Fort Allen was a […]

It’s R&R time for most of Maine’s fall-winter-spring arts-and-entertainment producers and presenters. Most of these organizations have already bowed out until fall, but there are a few stragglers. Portland Players wraps up its 2009-2010 season with “West Side Story,” the two-time Tony Award-winning Broadway musical. Oratorio Chorale, joined by members of the Maine Music Society […]

Greater Portland Auditions, Calls for Art  Seeking Artists and Crafters for craft sale at Columbia Club in Portland on June 5, FMI, email Jill S. Kelly, jskellydesigns@mac.com. Books, Authors Thursday 5/20 Book Group: “The Botany of Desire,” by Michael Pollan, noon-1 p.m., free with museum admission, Portland Museum of Art, Seven Congress Square, Portland. “Reprise […]

An economic crisis could await at least 200,000 if they don’t file a 990-N form by Monday.