Features

25 Tales of the Grand Hotels
“No. I’m supposed to deliver this whoopie pie to Mr. Depp
in person.”
By Benjamin Goodridge

28 Leading Lady
Rachel Nichols takes a great leap forward  in The Loop and
Conan the Barbarian.
By Colin W. Sargent

33 May We Suggest…
Dear J. Crew: Love the Winslow Homer fashions, but why stop there?
From Staff & Wire Reports

35 What’s 25 Years Between Friends?
Mark Portland Magazine’s Silver Anniversary in publication where the past meets the future.
By Colin W. Sargent

74 Cruise Control
Tracking cruise-ship dollars.
By Karen E. Hofreiter

81 Lost Horizon
One City Center as a cultural bridge.
By Leah Whalen

91 Dreamiest Catch
Deadliest Catch deckhand & Maine-native Crosby Leveen on fitness for sea duty.
Interview by Taryn Crane

Departments

10 From the Editor

12 Letters

14 Imperatifs

16 Goings On

22 Chowder

84 Cuiscene
Maine’s culinary evolution

86 Market Watch
What’s hot, what’s not

88 Dining Guide

89 Restaurant Review
Buck’s Naked BBQ

93 2011 Guide to Wellness

97 House of the Month
111 West Street

103 New England
Homes & Living

108 Fiction
“The Island”
By Robert Graves

112 Flash

Cover: “Then and Now”: Stacey Teas Collins sparkles in our April 1986 premiere issue and today as we

breeze into 25 years in publication. See story, page 41. Photos by Peter Macomber (inset), Billy Black.