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Arts & Leisure
New exhibitions reflect on the creative impact of three Maine arts colonies.
Two thumbs way up! Ken Eisen is the man behind the 100-film slate — and A-list special guests — at the Maine International Film Festival. (Just don’t tell him you like superhero movies.)
A very Maine-y rom-com — and three other new summer reads with the Pine Tree State at their heart.
Father-son artists Philip and Matt Barter rebuild a factory town.
We asked 10 art-world luminaries to share the under-the-radar places where they find great Maine art.
Last year’s second running of the Great Maine Scavenger Hunt enticed hundreds of readers and fans to explore the Pine Tree State’s weirder, woolier corners. Dozens returned home victorious — faces suntanned, quads aching from mountain hikes, hands stinking of codfish. Here are a few of their stories.
The year’s most talked-about big-screen superhero spends summers laying low (and occasionally battling aliens) on the midcoast.
For those contending with Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia and memory loss, the Sam L. Cohen Adult Day Center in Biddeford provides care, social support, and respite.
The wayfaring founder of an agrarian lit mag is calling Down East Maine home — and reimagining the area’s rural economy.
On the governor's lifelong love of verse.
What if history’s powerful and pioneering women were celebrated and honored in public spaces? Abigail Gray Swartz is out to remix whole cityscapes with ambitious monuments to history’s “hidden figures.”