Features
Portland has been discovered. In recent years the national media has lavished it with superlatives: “America’s Most Livable City” (Forbes), “The Top City for Creative People” (Kiplingers). On the streets, there’s a new vibrancy, a faster pace. And everyone raves about the food. At the same time, the city retains its unique Maine-ness — you feel an intimate connection between the people and the landscape, a sense of both history and community. Somehow Portland feels both big and small. If we had to choose only one reason to love the city, that would be it. Fortunately, we don’t. And while there aren’t enough magazine pages in the world to list all the reasons we love Portland, here are fifty examples of why we’re proud to call it Maine’s own.
At the bottom of Munjoy Hill and the northern end of Marginal Way may be Portland's next great neighborhood.
By Sara Anne Donnelly.
Working Wharves, Allagash White, Maine's Jobs, John Coleman/VIA, Local Music, and more
By reopening the State Theatre, Lauren Wayne brought Portland's music scene full circle. By Michaela Cavallaro.
Standard Baking Co., Architecture, Reiche School, Coffee, Style, Late Night Food, First Friday, The Portland Room, What You'll Overhear.
An interview with Portland mayor Michael Brennan.
By Jeff Clark
Underground Food Scene, Telling Room, It's the Original Portland, Portland's Nature, Preble Street Resource Center, Longfellow Square, Six Great Products, Forest Avenue, Cobblestone Streets.
Departments
Can you identify this oven in the woods?
Going to high school in Portland in the early eighties, and how the city has changed over the last thirty years.
We asked our readers "What are you thankful for about Maine?" Here are their responses.
As traditions go, the feast on Swan’s Island takes the notion of a large family holiday to an intriguing new level.
B.H. Anderson bet on Teddy Roosevelt to win the election of 1912. He lost, and paid for it with a walk across the United States.
National clothing lines look to Maine for inspiration.
Newry’s engineer of fun turns his talents homeward and built what may be one of the longest and fastest ziplines in the world.
What is the future of Land for Maine's Future?
Tim and Liz Williams renovated a classic Peaks Island cottage. Now it’s the life of the island party.
Washington mason Pat Manley laid the foundation for some of Maine’s most iconic restaurants.
One Maine cabin dweller shares his abode with some uninvited houseguests.
Brunswick's Best New Restaurant
Maine's favorite busybody offers advice on life, love, and work.
Go here. Do this. See that.
A Look Back at Down East Twenty-Five Years Ago
