Food & Drink

43 Posh Spice
Maine’s secrets for those who like it hot.
By Claire Z. Cramer

70   Restaurant Guide

71   Restaurant Review
Orchid Thai, Falmouth’s newest exotic flower

Art & Style

13 Maine Classics

15 Goings On

21 Chowder

93 Fiction
“The Perils of Long-Term Care”
By Michael Kimball

Personalities

32 Big Banned Music
Caribou’s Tess Collins takes China by Story
Interview by Colin W. Sargent

96 Flash

Shelter & Design

19 Edgeless in Vacationland
Negative and vanishing-edge pools sneak into the land of pointed firs.
By Colin W. Sargent

79 House of the Month
Cape Elizabeth’s Sea Glass Cottage

84 New England Homes & Living

Perspectives

8 From the Editor

10 Letters

27 Maine To Go
The national star-maker machine that rates Maine’s finest hotels and inns is a matter of perception and reality.
By Claire Z. Cramer

47 Two If By Sea
Crash the resort wedding locations that are the toast of Maine.
From Staff & Wire Reports

50 Maine Wedding Guide

Maine Life

30 Sign of the Times
Monument Square’s guiding beacon.
Interview by Colin W. Sargent

37 Athens In The Wilderness
Bar Harbor’s temple to the arts.
By Brad Emerson