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The Crying Tiger, with grilled sirloin, garlic rice, and chili-garlic-lime and Jaew sauces.
Food & Drink

Mitr Ping Yang Thai Kitchen Is Connecting Its Guests to a Wider Range of Flavors

The menu at the new Portland restaurant skews toward Thai street food.
Best of Maine Beer Poll
Food & Drink

The Results of Our Best of Maine Beer Poll

It’s no easy task picking favorites from the thousands of Maine beers out there, but we tapped our readers to do just that.
inside Back Cove Books, in Portland
Arts & Leisure

3 Newcomers Join Maine’s Vibrant Indie-Bookstore Scene

Here’s how they stack up.
Sean Sullivan, former executive director of the Maine Brewers' Guild
Food & Drink

Sean Sullivan Spills On 10 Years of Leading the Maine Brewers’ Guild

The outgoing executive director reflects on his experience raising the profile of Maine’s beer scene.
Bowdoin College’s Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum located in the new John and Lile Gibbons Center for Arctic Studies
Arts & Leisure

Check Out the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum’s Cool New Digs

The Bowdoin museum’s new building feels like the polar opposite of its old home.
Owls Head General Store
Our Towns

Maine’s General Stores: Where Tight-Knit Communities Thrive (and Retail Giants Don’t)

Photographers Dave Waddell and Tristan Spinski hit the road (and the water) to see what keeps these far-flung holdouts ticking.
The Blanchard family in Acadia National Park
Arts & Leisure

A Family Fulfills Its Goal of Hiking Every Footpath in Acadia

Two years into a family hiking challenge, David Blanchard received a life-changing diagnosis. Instead of letting it sideline him, he picked up the pace.
blueberry beer
Food & Drink

The Wild Story Behind the First Blueberry Beer

From barrens to breweries, the Maine ale that started it all (and it might not be the one you think).
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Can You Name This Monumental Maine Art Walk?

In 2017, a local land trust opened the property to the public, with a graveled quarter-mile path winding past the dozen remaining big sculptures.
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