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West Bay Rotary's Duck Derby postponed- - set to start June 1, 4 pm
The man who has been driving around with a giant duck on his car
Thu, 05/23/2013 - 11:30pm

CAMDEN - Peter Berke has endured ribbing from his crew at North Atlantic Painting Company for a few weeks now. It takes a confident guy to drive up to a client's house with a giant wooden duck strapped to the roof of his car, but it's all in good fun to promote West Bay Rotary's upcoming Duck Derby. Note: Due to weather and related tidal conditions this Saturday, May 25, the Duck Derby has been postponed to next Saturday, June 1 at 4:00 p.m. Berke, owner of North Atlantic Painting...
After 13 years, Cappy's Chowder House welcomes back bartender 'Big John' Collins
Wed, 05/22/2013 - 10:30am

CAMDEN - Cappy's Chowder House may be currently undergoing a major expansion for the summer, but locals and tourists will find another welcome surprise when they walk through the new doors: John Collins, who goes by the nickname "Big John," is back behind the bar after a 13-year absence. For six or seven years during the 1990s, Big John was the jovial face behind the bar-and the tallest guy in the room, until he left in 2000. Back then, a loyal group of local ladies would convene every Monday...
Missing Glenburn teen presumed dead after possibly being lured by imposter profile
Kay Stephens: What parents can do to protect their teens from social media imposters
Tue, 05/21/2013 - 12:45pm

Five Town Communities That Care and I have collaborated on a column to address the news concerning the presumed death of missing Glenburn teenager, Nichole Cable, and information on what parents and teachers can do concerning youth online safety. Recently, police announced that a 20-year-old Orono man is facing a murder charge in connection with the disappearance of Nichole Cable of Glenburn. Earlier news reports mentioned that a fake Facebook account, or what is known as an “imposter...
Teen2Teen VidFest first prize winner Ploypailin Intarawut took creative, abstract approach to the message
Lincoln Academy teen wins $1,000 prize for artistic anti-smoking video
Mon, 05/20/2013 - 12:30pm

The Teen2Teen VidFest contest rules were pretty straight forward: Any teen from Lincoln County could enter with a 15-, 30- or 60-second public safety announcement video on teens and tobacco use, distracted driving, or bullying. Out of 12 student directors (all from Lincoln Academy), 15 films were judged. Teen2Teen video fest winner Ploypailin Intarawut took first prize with a trophy and $1,000 with her short artistic PSA that layered grim smoking statistics with a soft focus close up of a teen...
Local, affordable and fine dining to go
Belfast’s eatery Scallions takes take-out to a whole new level
Mon, 05/20/2013 - 8:30am

BELFAST — The concept is astoundingly simple, yet no one in the Midcoast has ever done it before. This past winter, a little take-out place called Scallions opened up in the Reny’s Plaza mall in Belfast, but lest anyone equate the idea of “to go” with fast food, this eatery is setting itself apart with its fine dining options. Scallions describes itself as “restaurant quality prepared food to go.” For 14 years, Diana and Charles Evans husband owned The Rhumb Line, a fine dining restaurant in...
Hot Pink Flannel's 'NeonBling' bash brings out the glitter, neon
Monday, May 20, 2013 - 7:45am
I love how people think Mainers are one iconic stereotype you'd find in Yankee Magazine; e.g.; the crusty old timer or the lobsterman who "ayuhs" when spoken to. As you can see from Pen Bay Pilot's galleries, Midcoast has such a diverse cross-section of people. We are a hotbed for the creative economy and we've got a vibe you don't even know about, yet. Case in point: Hot Pink Flannel is the party planning crew of Rockland and Jesse Stuart is the...
Pilot Distractions
Kickstarter campaign funds skywriting joke
Fri, 05/17/2013 - 1:30pm

Imagine looking up at the sky and seeing this? Would you laugh? Call 9-1-1? Kickstarter is the world's largest crowdfunding platform for creative projects. People use it to launch their books, movies, albums and other tech ideas. But one day, New York comedian Kurt Braunohler got a silly idea and thought, "why not run with it?" He raised $7,000 with the help of 257 backers and got a skywriter to write "How do I land?" in L.A. In his statement, via Gawker, he said: "I think we can all agree that...
Film review: Opera House Video on movie sequel 'Texas Chainsaw'
Ah spring.... Is it time to break out the chainsaws?
Fri, 05/17/2013 - 1:15pm

BELFAST - Summer's coming. Time to grab some friends and break out the bar-b-ques, cocktails, and... chainsaws? Leatherface is back and this time it's personal. This well-made sequel takes us back to 1974, the morning after the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre . It begins with a shootout between a local vigilante mob and the Sawyer family with exciting cameos by Chainsaw alumni Gunnar Hansen, Bill Mosely, and Marilyn Burns. With seemingly no survivors of the Sawyer family,...
Runway attitude for Fashion Night Out!
Friday, May 17, 2013 - 8:30am
The Hot Mamas threw a Fashion Night Out! benefit in Rockland May 11 to help the teens and young adults who are part of Rockland's Out! As I Want To Be. The fashion show took place at the...
Crafters, inventors and artists present this Friday in Belfast
Hey Pecha Kucha, whatcha got cooking?
Wed, 05/15/2013 - 12:00pm

BELFAST - This Friday evening, May 17, at the Tarratine Tribe Hall, 153 Main Street in Belfast, a series of craftsmen, artists and innovators will strut their stuff at PechaKucha Night Midcoast Maine, emceed by poet Arielle Greenberg Bywater. PechaKucha, which is the Japanese term for the sound of conversation "chit chat," was originally devised in Tokyo in February 2003 as an event for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. The way Pechakucha Midcoast works is eight...
The second annual North Haven Spring Playwriting Festival kicks off May 17-19
'Fast, lively and funny' 15-minute plays on North Haven this weekend
Tue, 05/14/2013 - 2:30pm

NORTH HAVEN - Fighting princesses and bears who snack on pizza delivery guys are only a few of the wildly imaginative plays being performed this weekend at Waterman's Community Center in North Haven. On May 17 and 18 at 7:30 p.m. and on May 19 at 1 p.m., theater goers will get to experience seven original full-stage productions about 15 minutes each. The scriptwriters range in age from 9 to 65. "Back in February we put out a call for scripts from local and summer residents and these were the...
Billy's Tavern hosts a multi-media storytelling night on the various meanings of motherhood
Mother's Day stories the way Hallmark never intended
Fri, 05/10/2013 - 11:45pm

THOMASTON - As a non-mom, I'm not generally inclined to go to literary readings about Mother's Day. (It's a little like going to a car convention when you only ride a bike.) But somehow, I knew if I went to Billy's Tavern last night for their "Mother's Night Storytelling" event, I'd find a much richer understanding of what it means to be, or not be, a mother in these times. Because gay or straight, wealthy or poor, in a committed relationship or single, ambivalent or determined, every woman has...
Featuring runway designs from local fashion designers and a DJ dance party
The Hot Mamas throw a Fashion Night Out! benefit in Rockland on May 11
Thu, 05/09/2013 - 2:00pm

ROCKLAND — The Hot Mamas, an eclectic group of Midcoast women, aren't into your plain, old, run-of-the-mill fundraisers. If they're going to put their energy toward something, it's a sure bet it's going to be innovative, it's going to be energetic and it's going to be hot... tssssssss . On Saturday, May 11, they're getting behind Fashion's Night Out and a cause they deeply believe in: helping the teens and young adults who are part of Rockland's Out! As I Want To Be , an organization...
Meet Zhanna - the new kid in school all over again
Hail To The Rad Kids
Thu, 05/09/2013 - 12:00pm

You know that scene in Being John Malkovich when John Cusack falls down the strange portal only to emerge viewing the world through someone else’s eyes? That’s what these Rad Kids columns usually end up being about; a small shift in perception through one teen's eyes. Zhanna (pronounced Johnna ) Kurbanova, 18, goes to Camden Hills Regional High School… though she doesn’t have to. In her country, Turkmenistan (bordered by Iran, Afghanistan and Uzbekistan), teens graduate high...
Hilarious vandalizations of textbooks
Pilot Distractions
Thu, 05/09/2013 - 12:00pm

In sixth grade, I "found" an old history textbook at the end of the school year and proceeded to vandalize it, drawing my own characters within the pages, reworking captions and providing expletive-filled text bubbles to corny illustrations. In sixth grade, you think you're hilarious and I blame Mad Magazine for that. Of course, I got caught and of course this has to be prefaced by "kids don't try this at home" but now that we're several weeks away from school letting out and on the...
A sneak peek of who and what's tap...
'Down the Chute' beer/wine tasting at the Snow Bowl May 11
Fri, 05/03/2013 - 2:00pm

CAMDEN — There's no chance a blizzard is going to get in the way this time. The "Down the Chute Beer & Wine Challenge," originally scheduled for Feb. 8 during the 2013 U.S. National Toboggan Championships, is back on track Saturday, May 11, at the Camden Snow Bowl Lodge on Barnestown Road, from 3 to 7 p.m. The afternoon will feature samplings of Maine made beer and wine, as well as plenty of food and fun to help kick off summer. For the admission price, participants receive a "First Eva'...
Breakwater Vineyards, Dulse & Rugosa team up
Cheap Dates: Wine tasting and make-your-own natural bath soaks
Wed, 05/01/2013 - 10:45am

This Cheap Date has the perfect ingredients: A Maine-grown wines tasting paired with a Maine-island botanicals bath soak. (All you ever have to do is pair a wine tasting with anything, even a community organized pick-up-dog-poop day, and I'd go to it.) On Sunday, May 5, Breakwater Vineyards in Owls Head is teaming up with Dulse & Rogosa , a natural bath and beauty products company on Gotts Island to offer a unique twist on the typical wine tasting. Called "Taste, Make & Take," each...
La Vida Restaurant brings us the spicy mango margarita just in time for Cinco de Mayo
What's in that cocktail?
Tue, 04/30/2013 - 4:00pm

BELFAST - It's a good thing someone knows how to make a truly good Margarita around here because Cinco de Mayo is just around the corner and we're going to need one STAT. La Vida's bar in Belfast boasts around 35 tequilas, some of which are so rare, you'd have to travel to Mexico to find them. Shelly Trisch, the manager at La Vida gave us a live demonstration on how to make their signature Spicy Mango Margarita, which uses fresh puréed mango and a house tequila infused with Habenero peppers,...
A sample of three bands that wowed the crowd
Free Range Musical Festival in full swing
Sat, 04/27/2013 - 4:00pm

BELFAST - The streets of Belfast are flooded with people looking to get their music fix... of every type. The fourth annual celebration of Belfast's Free Range Music Festival is currently ongoing and we caught some of the acts earlier today. Just to give a sample of the diversity (not to mention the high quality acts) this Festival offers, check out our two-minute clips on Clio & Chloe, The Hips and Pete Witham & The Cozmik Zombies. Clio & Chloe are 17 and 14,...
Locals ‘thrilled’ to have old watering hole back
Port Clyde’s The Black Harpoon reopens with new owners
Thu, 04/25/2013 - 11:45am

PORT CLYDE — The tiny roughhewn bar room in Port Clyde known affectionately as "The Poon" was packed to the rafters April 24, its first opening night under new ownership. Chris Chadwick, a scallop fisherman, recently bought the original Harpoon restaurant with his mother, Cindy Chadwick. They’ve renamed it The Black Harpoon, based on its original name dating back more than 30 years. There was "huge excitement when the news got out we were re-opening," said Neva Joseph, who used to own Craignair...
Empathetic alliance with those afraid to speak up for themselves
In Rockland, Thomaston, Waldoboro: In-school 'Day of Silence' to support LGBT students
Thu, 04/25/2013 - 11:30am

Eight years ago, a single teenager, who went by the nickname Muffin, started an awareness campaign for kids who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender. Alone, she faced off her entire school, vowing a day of silence, making it visibly known she was standing up for kids too afraid to speak. One girl’s campaign has now spread to hundreds of students and staff. This Friday, April 26, students at three Midcoast high schools will observe a Day of Silence , a student-led day of action to...
Pilot Distractions
Dun dun dun dun! Cat dressed like a shark rides a Roomba
Wed, 04/24/2013 - 2:45pm
Here's the thing. To get a meme to go viral, you have to kick it up a notch. Most people have the attention span of Ryan Lochte. It's not enough to come up with the idea of placing a cat on a Roomba, one must dress the cat up in a shark costume first. Oh, and let's just perpetuate this WTF moment a little more by adding a waddling duckling to the mix. I could watch this all day long. (Editors: quit messing around and get some real work done!) Crazy Cat Lady can be reached at news@penbaypilot.com
Meet 'gravitationally challenged' stray cat Mimie
Wed, 04/24/2013 - 8:45am

CAMDEN — Mimie is a calico domestic short hair stray from Belfast that the P.A.W.S. Animal Adoption Center took in a few months ago. "I think she was probably somebody's pet at one point and either she got out and ran away or some other circumstance happened and someone picked her up and brought her here," said Laura Stupca, shelter manager. The vet estimates she is about eight to 10 years old, "but she doesn't act it," said Stupca. "She came in at 18 pounds and the vet recommended put her on a...
Midcoast Yarn Ninjas strike again
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 - 9:45am
ROCKLAND - -They knit. They stealth through the night. They’re the Mid-Coast Yarn Ninjas and they take street art seriously. Self-described on Facebook as: “A group of stealthy rebel knitters, crocheters, and fiber artists who want to purty-up the city of Rockland with colorful displays of yarn graffiti,” the Ninjas agreed to be interviewed if they remained anonymous. This past Sunday they "purtied" up a children's playground on Warren Street, lacing hand-knit spring...
Maine Coast Book Shop participates
April 23 is World Book Night, a worldwide book giveaway
Tue, 04/23/2013 - 9:15am

DAMARISCOTTA - World Book Night has a simple concept. On April 23 every year, bookstores and literary champions from around the world assemble an army of "book givers," who give free books away to "light or nonreaders, especially people who may not have access to printed books for reasons of means or geography." The book givers receive 20 free paperback copies of one World Book Night title, not too many to carry, but enough to share with a good number of potential new readers...
Afternoon snapshot: kids skating around Rockport Harbor
Mon, 04/22/2013 - 1:00pm

ROCKPORT — It felt like the first real day of spring yesterday. After the long, dragged out winter, it felt good to sit on a large chunk of granite pier by the ocean at Rockport Harbor and soak up the afternoon sun. Boat builders at Rockport Marine were outside, moving a bunch of heavy chains, tending to business and a group of kids were attempting to skateboard off the stacked floating docks. Real skaters know every spot in a town where to ollie, grind, slide and bomb. Having known a bunch of...
Pilot Distractions
Holy smokes, is it reefer madness?
Sat, 04/20/2013 - 3:30pm

CAMDEN-From the "God knows we could use a distraction" department, this photo was dropped off to us by Larry Kinney, who saw this trailer parked by the Hannaford Supermarket in Camden. Before people get too upset, let's weed out facts from perceptions. No, this wasn't someone's awesome Plan B in the likely event of a zombie apocalypse, this is a word used in the trucking industry to refer to a refrigerated trailer. Happy 4-20-13 peeps. Kay Stephens can be reached at news@penbaypilot...
The answer to this Mother's Day question for three moms is sweet and simple
'The best gift my child ever gave me was...'
Thu, 04/18/2013 - 5:30pm

Every Mother's Day we are encouraged to buy gifts for our mothers, from cards to flowers to candy. And though those things are nice, three local mothers we spoke to were perfectly happy with the little things in life that money can't buy. Here are their answers to our question: "What is the best gift you've ever received from your children?" Traci Kirkpatrick Traci is a fulltime working mother, who owns Traci's Diner in Belfast. She is the mother of three children, Sam, 6...
Cheap Dates: Spar, play and work out free at Point Lookout this weekend
Thu, 04/18/2013 - 12:45pm

LINCOLNVILLE-We've already established that the best Cheap Dates are the free ones, right? Well this one ties in perfectly with warm spring weather and the need to stop wearing your give-ups (i.e. sweat pants). It's time to stop cramming Cheetos into your eating hole and face it: bathing suit season is right around the corner. Good thing Point Lookout Fitness Center in Lincolnville is having an Open House this Saturday and Sunday (April 20 and 21) allowing everyone free access to their free...
Local poet Kristen Lindquist, who will introduce him on stage, tells us what to expect
Inaugural poet Richard Blanco comes to Midcoast April 22
Wed, 04/17/2013 - 12:00pm

CAMDEN-To paraphrase Rodney Dangerfield, poets "don't get no respect." (Arrgh the grammar!) Well let's just say in most places, to be a poet is to be a fairly unappreciated writer. What with laptops, iPads, Netflix, video games, etc. who has the time to actually listen to a poem? Well, given that it is national poetry month, Midcoast is about to get a real treat. Maine poet Richard Blanco, who served as this year's inaugural poet for President Obama, will be coming to the Midcoast...
aBeanstalk is a smart solution for Internet wary parents
Kay Stephens: A parental intelligence system that stops cyberbullying before it blows up
Wed, 04/17/2013 - 11:00am

In my last column, Cyberbullying is not ‘sticks and stones.’ It’s psychological warfare I spoke of the fundamental problem of cyberbullying. And it just so happened this column was published the day I found out that another local Thorndike teen had taken her life, in part, due to bullying, according to her family. My words, written before learning of this, presaged what was to come. 'So often, it seems as though adults aren’t truly waking up to the potential...
Craft brews and fine whiskies: The cornerstone of this chill scene
Rockland's 3Crow hangout features modern American food with a Southern spin
Thu, 04/11/2013 - 12:30pm

ROCKLAND —With the recent opening in Rockland of 3Crow Restaurant and Bar, Executive Chef and Owner Josh Hixson’s latest restaurant, it appears everything has come full circle. Hixson and his family have lived in Rockland for the last 10 years, and opened their first retail store, Sage Market, there in 2006. When that business eventually closed, Hixson opened his first restaurant, Brevetto Kitchen & Wine Bar, in Camden in 2008, transitioning that to 40 Paper Italian Bistro & Bar, also...
Try it before it 'goes straight to the barrel for the next eight years.'
Cheap Dates: Free whiskey tasting at Sweetgrass Farm, April 10 and 17
Tue, 04/09/2013 - 9:15pm

UNION - April is whiskey-making month over at Sweetgrass Farm Winery and Distillery and you know what that means for our Cheap Dates aficiandos: it's free, it's fun and c'mon, it's whiskey! (Anyone who has been reading my columns knows I consider it a basic food group. See my last story: What it’s like to sip a $150 glass of pre-Prohibition whiskey . Owners Keith and Constance Bodine have been making whiskey commercially for the last two years. "We don't even have our retail...
A creative economy pioneer, she cuts, stitches, dyes, designs, silkscreens and sells her own clothing line
A stitcher with an attitude
Mon, 04/08/2013 - 6:00pm

In spring, a young man’s fancy may turn to love, but a woman’s fancy turns to... clothes. As in: “I hate every single thing in my closet. If I have to put on one more sweater or pair of long johns or Bean boots, I will flippin’ lose it.” Daria Norvlaan doesn’t have that problem, see. She’s a local fashion designer from Damariscotta with a mean sewing machine. She just has to imagine what she feels like wearing for spring, summer, fall or winter, and simply orders the fabric, cuts it, sews it...
Updated: with video
She’s ‘Cinderella For A Day’
Sun, 04/07/2013 - 9:30am

BELFAST — Every year around May and June, high school girls in Maine look forward to their prom. But with new dresses, shoes and accessories (not to mention hair and makeup) averaging around $400-$500, this is not something that a lot of girls can easily afford. So what’s their option — not go? Nope, because as the fairy godmothers who runs the Cinderella Project of Maine attests, “Where there is a wand, there is a way.” Going on eight years, the Cinderella Project of Maine has been providing...
April's Poetry Month spurs more than 60 submissions
Got a minute? Read a poem on The Good Tern's wall
Fri, 04/05/2013 - 2:15am

April is National Poetry month and like the tulips that pop up from the ground, they're meant to be looked at and enjoyed, not hidden away. Last month, the Good Tern Cooperative Food Market in Rockland put out a call to poets in the Midcoast to mail in a poem of any size or length — or style — and the Good Tern would put them up on the wall for all to see. The submissions that came in ranged from Watershed high school students who did spare line drawings with quotes from famous authors or...
Pilot Distractions
Massive public pillow fight in Portland, April 6!
Fri, 04/05/2013 - 12:45am

PORTLAND - In case you feel like a road trip this Saturday, a humongous flash-mob style pillow fight is happening April 6 at Monument Square, on Congress Street, in downtown Portland at 3 p.m. Portland is joining in on the 30-plus cities worldwide that have participated year after year. According to the compendium of cool, Dispatch Magazine , which happens to be hosting the event, this wil be a " public pillow fight of epic proportions." Da Rules according to Dispatch : The...
The Collective's after party will be held at the Farnsworth Museum
Rockland Shorts film series to be shown at The Strand April 5
Wed, 04/03/2013 - 12:45pm

ROCKLAND -Once again, on Friday, April 5, the Farnsworth Art Museum and The Strand Theatre in Rockland will present Rockland Shorts: An International Short Film Series , a series of short creative films. The series, shown in The Strand, includes an hour of short films selected from an open call to filmmakers. As part of the screening, select filmmakers and media artists included in the series will join in a discussion at The Strand in person or via Skype for a conversation...
'This is the funny part. I could care less about Easter. I just love making Easter eggs.'
When coloring Easter eggs becomes an obsession
Fri, 03/29/2013 - 6:45pm

Artist Maggi Blue just made 72 dyed Easter eggs--that's four 18-packs of eggs. And she didn't do it for her six-year-old son. She is just a little cuckoo for brightly colored things. "What I'll do is go to Walmart and stand there in the egg decorating aisle and buy as many of those little packets of dye as I can, you know the PAAS kind. I just buy a ton of 'em, they're like two bucks, and that's the most fun for me. I don't even like Easter. I just like making eggs," she said. She said she hard...
There will be a Fur Bar for those who forgot to grow or make their 'staches.
Hot Pink Flannel's annual 'Stache Bash' is Saturday night at the Time Out Pub
Fri, 03/29/2013 - 6:30pm

ROCKLAND -Hot Pink Flannel's fourth annual 'Stache Bash will be taking place Saturday night at the Time Out Pub in Rockland. Past events have brought out wild costumes and competitions (even among the ladies) to see who can rock the most hirsute face. Black Cat Road is the band for the evening. There will a Mustache Contest for best real and faux 'staches. Registration for the contest will end at 10:30 p.m. and the judging will be at 11:00 p.m. by a panel of three judges. Half of the...
Takeaway from the Orono cyberbullying case
Kay Stephens: Cyberbullying is not ‘sticks and stones.’ It’s psychological warfare
Thu, 03/28/2013 - 8:30am

I’ve been following this Orono cyberbullying case very closely since it broke on the statewide scene. The Bangor Daily News reports: Teen cyberbully pleads guilty to terrorizing former Orono schoolmate. Every day, I receive stories all over the world like this: kids getting defamed, libeled, psychologically tortured by other kids through digital devices. This 16-year-old girl, Lexi Henkel, was incredibly brave to take her story public as her 17-year-old tormentor terrorized...
Hail To The Rad Kids
Rock out with Peytonius Maximus in Camden
Wed, 03/27/2013 - 11:15am

CAMDEN — She goes by the nickname Peytonius Maximus and she rocks. No, literally, she rocks out in an all-female band as the drummer and she just won a category in Hardy Girls Healthy Women’s statewide contest Girls Rock!, which celebrates Maine girls' voices, leadership, and activism. She is Peyton Feener, a 17-year-old student at the Community School, in Camden. Oh there’s no doubt she’s one of the Rad Kids. Within two seconds of meeting her at The Rig a few weeks back, she gave off this...
'To me it’s like drinking Haley’s Comet. You’re never going to run across this again'
What it’s like to sip a $150 glass of pre-Prohibition whiskey
Tue, 03/26/2013 - 11:00am

THOMASTON - It’s a little like Christmas, at first. The thrill is in opening up an old wooden crate to find bottles packed in form-fitting straw encasements. What we have here is pre-Prohibition bourbon whiskey from 1907, an extremely rare find. “I guess this is what you’d call turn-of-the-century bubble wrap,” said Chris Burke, owner of Billy’s Tavern in Thomaston, as he put a bottle of Atherton whiskey on the bar. Lifting the straw encasement off the bottle, he peeled away the thin, crumbling...
How to create a wonderfully weird art installation in only 24 hours
Monday, March 25, 2013 - 10:15am
ROCKPORT- Overheard at the Center for Contempory Maine Art this weekend: "I just saw that piece on the wall and thought, 'Wow, that must have taken four or five months to make.' " Nope. Just 24 hours. One and you're done, kid. The 2013 "Resisting Entropy II" artists who participated in this 24-hour art-making event at CMCA included Jared Cowan, David Allen, Johanna Cairns, Andy White, Bethany Engstrom, Andy Hamm, Siglinde Langholz, Jonathan Laurence, Eric Leppanen and...
'The Gift,' 'Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away,' Jimmy Cliff's 'Rebirth'
This month's killer reviews of the best books, movies and music
Thu, 03/21/2013 - 7:45pm

Our reviewers have some of the best suggestions on what to read, what to see and and what to listen to each month. Let Lacy Simons of hello hello books, Jim Dandy and Tiffany Howard of Opera House Video and Nathaniel Bernier of Wild Rufus Consignments fill you in on this month's killer book, movie and music reviews. Books The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World. Reviewed by Lacy Simons This month's pick is Lewis...
Making wild, unpredictable art from stuff
Give them your cast-offs, your junk, your discards
Thu, 03/21/2013 - 5:30pm

ROCKPORT — For 24 hours on March 22, 10 local artists will be confined at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art to create experimental art installations out of a giant pallet of discarded materials donated from tradesmen, carpenters, and fishermen, as well as items collected from machine and automobile junkyards.The next day, March 23, they'll catch a few afternoon zzzs, then come back to CMCA for the opening reception, from 5 to 7 p.m. Jared Cowan, artist and owner of Asymmetrick Arts in...
A seven-course 'late winter harvest' dinner...
Whipping up something good at Sailor’s Rest Farm
Thu, 03/21/2013 - 4:15pm

LINCOLNVILLE – Ladleah Dunn is a sailor and a darn good cook. More importantly, she aims to not take the foodie industry in Maine so seriously or make it too precious. Her culinary adventures stem largely from her own small farm in Lincolnville; what’s ridiculous is how she makes it look so easy. Even though snow covers the greenhouse and it seems as though we’ll never see green shoots poking from the ground ever again, there’s always something cooking at Sailor’s Rest Farm...
In Maine, the Five Rules of Dodgeball are dodge, dip, dive, duck and drink.
This just in: Dodgeball still hurts like hell
Mon, 03/18/2013 - 2:30pm

ROCKLAND - Dodgeball. Just the word conjures up sensory memories of painful welts developing on the back of your legs. For the past six weeks at the Rockland Rec Center, a number of adult Dodgeball teams have been working up to the final tournament. During the last championship game, it was pretty apparent from watching the competitors that there are two kinds of dodgeball players: those who take it way too seriously and those who don’t. Yay, just like middle school all over again! Erica...
Unlike traditional Scottish highland bagpipes, these are softer, more melodious
The craft of making Scottish smallpipes by hand
Thu, 03/14/2013 - 4:30pm

HOPE — From inside the newly-built, rustic shop across the street from the Hope General Store, Chris Pinchbeck plays Irish music on his iPod while he works on a couple sets of Scottish smallpipes for customers. They're about three weeks from being completely finished. Behind him is a 1938 South Bend machinist's lathe that he found on Uncle Henry's that he uses for boring holes, for chanters and metal cutting. Pinchbeck grew up in Guilford. Graduation from the University of New Hampshire was...
Talking St. Paddy's Day, what it's like to be Irish and tackling cows
Five things to know about funnyman Bob Marley
Tue, 03/12/2013 - 3:00pm

First off, interviewing Bob Marley takes a lot of discipline, because if you laugh too much, you can't hear the playback on the tape recorder. Too late. He killed inside three seconds of the first interview question and I missed about 30 percent of the interview answers because of my own hyena cackling. Maine native Bob Marley, known as the New England King of Comedy, is an everyday kind of guy — as at home at a tailgate party as he is on stage with David Letterman. He's been a stand-up comic...

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