Perspectives

8 From the Editor
10 Letters
23 Warm Weather
Getaways

67 L’Esprit de l’Escalier
“April In Paris in Maine”
By Rhea Côté Robbins

Food&Drink

54 Eat, Drink,
Restaurant Week
Your table awaits.
By Claire Z. Cramer

68 Dining Guide

69 Restaurant Review
The Grill Room takes you near the fire for romance.

Art&Style

38 Grand Illusions
Anita Stewart’s star shines brightly at Portland Stage.
By Diane Hudson

53 Highway Signs
Writer Michael C. White’s latest novel chases a lost heart.
Interview by Claire Z. Cramer

93 Fiction
“Goat”
By Jason Brown

Shelter&Design

15 2016 Garden & Home Show Guide

78 House of the Month
“Payson Place”
The former Phillips & Marion Payson mansion in Cumberland Foreside.

88 New England Homes & Living

Personalities

45 Radio Heads
Meet some of Portland’s incandescent women of the airwaves.
By Olivia Gunn

96 Flash

Maine Life

13 Maine Classics

27 Experience

32 Chowder

35 Portland After Dark: “To The Nines”
Get reacquainted with the dark, fancy depths of your closet. Then hit the town.
By Karen Hofreiter

Maine Health & Wellness
Our 2016 advertising guide flings opens the door to a fresh,
high-energy spring.