Give adventure
There are presents I remember. Begged-for toys and cool-kids clothes I sought out under the tree like some ravenous late-winter scavenger. The jean jacket...
Leftovers: Swapping the suds
Well-oiled gears turn all year round to artfully crank out the many organized food and booze events that hit our Google calendars and cash...
Return to the Nuclear age
As contemporary music has become more and more commercialized and sanitized, the pendulum was bound to eventually swing the other way.
It’s no wonder that straightforward,...
Portland Ballet’s ‘Victorian Nutcracker’ gets a face-lift
One ballerina stands in front of the studio mirror and twists her strawberry blonde hair into a tight bun. Behind her, at the barre,...
Letter from Aroostook: A jewel in the crown of Maine
It’s 7 a.m. and I’m inching my way down a narrow two-lane highway toward Caribou. The road is slick with ice and packed snow,...
Gear with experience
A toboggan is happiest in the snow, flying downhill with a pile of gleefully screaming riders on its back. And most snowshoes agree that...
Leftovers: Here’s to The Betty
My mother, Betty Fivel Haberman Williams, died Sept. 5. Two months prior, and in seemingly good health for a woman of her certain age,...
Rustic renewal
What were you doing in 1994? Whatever it was, it’s the rare few of you who haven’t been changed indelibly since then.
So it is with...
Lighting the way for Maine State Ballet’s ‘The Nutcracker’
Bright cotton-candy-colored lights sparkled against Dave Herrman’s silver rings each time he slid a dimmer on his lightboard. As he chose color themes from a...
Leftovers: Good service and an alternate universe
For each of us, there’s a fine line between seamless tableside competency and over-solicitous restaurant service. The same holds true for delicate gastrique drizzles,...