If you’re an actor, you know you’ve made it when the waiter hands you the “actors’ menu” at Sardi’s in New York. The legendary bar and bistro delights with its caricatures of Broadway performers who started out as unknowns but became regulars over the years. Some have become powerhouses. “Look who’s sitting in the corner booth!” The sweet thing about it is, the rest of the world is unaware there’s an actors’ menu, with “special” lower prices. Except for those who care terribly about this, no one has time to care. Sardi’s maintains the actors’ menu not only to honor Actors’ Equity members, but also to stay in touch with who they are and to reward the source of their existence in the first place.
When I heard about this friendly practice, I thought of Maine and our own magazine, Portland Monthly. Think of us as a readers’ exclusive resource, conducting you to the friendly depths of discovering an extraordinary way to live in Maine.
We give you the essential backstory that, say, the Guy Gannett family (former publishers of the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram) used to own all of Saddleback Mountain and nearby Loon Lodge in Rangeley, where you can stay today in rustic, renovated luxury and even throw quite the wedding. Now you know you can book the hunting and ski lodge that was once short on insulation but was always long on charm.
Readers’ Equity. What a great concept–work created for the joy of it. We keep a fiction section for our readers, because we believe it’s the right thing to do. And that makes you, the readers, into the celebrities. For going on 33 years, we’ve been lucky enough to live a dream that we’ve shared with you. Mediabistro gives us a shout-out for going “beyond the usual.” We knock ourselves out to uncover and reveal the fantastic and endearing–the heart of a story. With that said, it’s so nice to see you back again at your favorite table. How have you been? Take a look at our Table of Contents. That’s our readers’ menu.
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