July / August 2009 Ian Crocker: Chapter 2 interview By Michelle Susan Twomey With five Olympic swimming medals locked tight in a safe in his closet, Ian Crocker (Cheverus 2000) has always been a free spirit dancing to his own tune. But now that he’s daring to change...
Cape Arundel Inn
July / August 2009 Presidential Range It’s a Yankee Olympus at Cape Arundel Inn, above clouds of sea roses. With views from every window towards Walker’s Point (which we have dubbed “Jumper’s Point,” given owner George Bush’s parachute jump this summer celebrating his...
Dream Islands
Summerguide 2009 "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" - Peter Finch (as Howard Beale), Network Tired of the news cycles, the post-9/11madness, the stock market plunges, the swine flu? Owning your own private island is the ultimate declaration of...
Good Maine Girl
Summerguide 2009 Augusta's Rachel Nichols brings a dash of color to Star Trek and lights up the screen in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. interview by Colin Sargent This summer, local audiences enjoying the critically acclaimed Star Trek movie have the right to point at...
Inn on Peaks Island
Island Whirl Peaks Islanders consider the pub at the Inn on Peaks a private secret. But weekend after weekend, funloving crowds from the mainland have something else in mind. If the grub weren't so delicious at the Inn on Peaks Island, there'd be reason enough (beyond...
The Secret Summers of Seth Wescott
May 2009 Surprise: The snowboarding gold medalist shapeshifts into one of us when the weather gets warm. Interview by Dan Harrington Since taking home a gold medal in the 2006 Winter Olympics, Maine native Seth Wescott has become an icon for snowboarders everywhere....
In Good Company
Melody on the Rocks In Rockland, great art like this deserves to draw crowds Culinary Institute of America grad Melody Wolfertz is sizzling as chef/owner of In Good Company. A stop here is the perfect prelude to an afternoon at The Farnsworth Museum, with its...
Idol Banter
While Season 8 rockets to a grand finale this month, American Idol judge Kara DioGuardi reveals a romantic tale of love and luck right here at her getaway home in Prospect Harbor.
Interview by Colin Sargent
Anatomy of A Movie
A three-way confab between Judd Nelson, the acclaimed Maine film director Huey (the singular talent with the singular name), and screenwriter Brian Daly.
Paciarino
reviewed by Diane Hudson April 2009 Bella Notte The zing’s the thing: At Paciarino, a Milanese couple adds unforgettable sauce to the Old Port mix. Milan in Maine? It’s the dream of Fabiana de Savino and Enrico Barbiero, the husband and wife chef/owners of Paciarino,...
A Woman in Full
2009 Josephine Peary was hardly amused when her husband, polar explorer Robert Peary, confessed he’d fallen in with an Inuit woman at the dome of the world. Undaunted, she courageously kept her marriage together and became a best-selling author, retiring to 290 Baxter...
Star East Café
reviewed by Diane Hudson feb/march 2009 Desperately seeking recession-friendly places, we happened upon the Star East Café, in the heart of Woodford’s Corner. Pleasant and affable as is his cuisine, owner Saad Albeshir has just purchased and renovated this building,...
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