Letter
2022
From ice cream to burgers to macarons, everything’s coming up vegan in Maine
With several new businesses, Maine’s vegan footprint just keeps expanding.
Review: Biographies of a musician and a painter succeed admirably in conveying the arts to young children
‘Look!’ and learn from two compelling new picture books, one about Scott Joplin, the other Winslow Homer.
Nicolas Cage has seen your memes. He wants you to see his work.
Burdened by mountains of debt, Nicolas Cage spent much of the last 15 years saying yes to just about any offer. He appeared in some 50 films, at least half of which were low-budget, direct-to-video schlock that typically vanished into the single digits of Rotten Tomatoes reviews. Yet Cage remained Cage, outrageous and outsize, strutting […]
A passion for feeding the world’s marginalized people
Trained by the prestigious Le Cordon Bleu cooking school in Paris, a Maine man spends his retirement years helping feed hungry people worldwide, including Ukrainian war refugees.
Maine Voices: Wisdom for facing hubris, our most stubborn human problem
People having great power who lose sight of the distinction between self-esteem and hubris can cause incalculable harm.
Maine Voices: Reframing aging and embracing the power of older adults
Society typically associates getting older with loss, but we are active participants in life and have much to share.
Jim Fossel: Controversial Florida education law exposes hypocrisy on both sides
The state’s Democrats come out in favor of rights for corporations, while Republicans use big government to impose their vision on local schools.
Best-Sellers: ‘Sea of Tranquility,’ ‘Time is a Mother’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.