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Arts & Leisure

Lewiston Teacher Designs Hot Custom Cleats for Pro Athletes

Professional football and baseball players are head over heels for how Eamon White snazzes up their footwear.
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Maine-Made

Maine’s Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (and Other Clothes)

Danforth’s Dorcas Sewing Sisters make clothes for those in need across the street and across the sea.
Latte art is on display at Rwanda Bean’s new Thompson’s Point café.
Food & Drink

Maine’s Rwanda Bean Is Committed to Its Coffee Farmers

The micro-chain has new cafes in Portland and...Kigali?
Arts & Leisure

The Midcoast Sternmen Are What the NBA Used to Be

Maine‘s new semi-pro basketball team is scrappy, physical, and full of players hungry for their shot.
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Land, Water & Wildlife

Can Japanese Tech Help Scallop Farming Hit It Big in Maine?

A unique sister-state relationship is bringing new ideas to Maine aquaculture.
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Food & Drink

This Cheesecake Is on the Honor System

Momo's decadent slices are available 24 hours a day in an Ellsworth garage.
Dean's Motor Lodge dining room
Food & Drink

The Restaurateurs Who Traded a Coastal Lobster Shack for an Aroostook Roadhouse

For Dawn Bernier, taking over Dean’s Motor Lodge has been both heart-wrenching and heartwarming.
Elizabeth Downs Maine’s 9-year-old beekeeper
Arts & Leisure

Meet Maine’s 9-Year-Old Beekeeper

In Eddington, fourth-grader Elizabeth Downs tends to some 180,000 resident bees in her backyard.
Maine-brewed non-alcoholic beer, Pointer, a New England–style IPA from Woodland Farms Brewery
Food & Drink

Have You Tried Maine’s First Non-Alcoholic Beer?

Woodland Farms Brewery's non-alcoholic IPA looks like a beer, and it tastes like a beer, but it doesn’t buzz like a beer.
Utopia Bangor cauliflower roasted with harissa and tahini
Food & Drink

Utopia Is a Pretty Idyllic Place to Eat

The new Bangor restaurant serves up sublime Mediterranean dishes.
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Our Towns

The Headbanging Bartender Who Saved Geno’s Rock Club

Kathryn Taylor is keeping another storied indie venue from closing.
Cocktail maven Nikaline Iacono, owner of Brunswick’s Vessel & Vine. Her online class to benefit Oasis Free Clinics is on March 27.
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Virtual Cooking Classes for a Good Cause

Helping a free medical clinic get through the pandemic? We'll drink to that.
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