Another year, another Down East Best of Maine Readers’ Choice poll. Some 5,000 of you cast a ballot this year, and you’re an opinionated bunch. The results include some newcomers in their categories and some stalwart shoo-ins that just can’t seem to lose.
Rocks and Houses
Ever wanted to step inside a painting by your favorite artist? Veteran journalist David Millward did just that. Kind of.
Ukrainian fusion folk. Social media shutterbugs. Hollywood starlets. Highbrow foot laundry. The Best of Maine Editors' Choice winners for "Culture."
Sole Man
In a Lisbon Falls basement, retired cobbler Walter Parker keeps the old ways alive.
American master Edward Hopper painted a number of recognizable Maine landmark — here are four works whose subjects you can visit today.
Maine Summer Beers
Summer is unarguably the best time of year to drink beer — at picnics and ballgames, on boats and at barbecues, at sunny, seaside beer gardens. Whatever the setting, these five brews are eminently quaffable.
50 Shades of Chambray 1, Down East, Maine
How the Saco-Biddeford cotton empire gave rise to a trashy 19th-century literary craze full of torrid affairs, horrendous murders, and ruined females.
Maine's craft beer scene enables full-throttle entrepreneurship. Get a behind the scenes look at our photo shoot at Allagash Brewing Company with some of the personalities of the Maine beer world.