A few weeks ago, the Bangor Daily News moved out of the space at 491 Main St. — home to the BDN for 60 years, now home to Cross Insurance headquarters — and into its new digs at One Merchants Plaza in the heart of downtown Bangor. It was the most significant change for the […]
Each year Glamour Magazine names 50 “hometown heroes” — one woman from each state that they believe are making a difference in America. The magazine’s choice for Maine this year is 17-year-old Nicole Maines, who has made headlines over the past few years after a drawn-out lawsuit against the Orono school district, fighting for her […]
The Maine Academy of Modern Music, the non-profit Portland-based school for young pop, rock and hip hop musicians, will open on Wednesday afternoon it’s newest year-round, full-time school, located at 15 Main St. in downtown Machias. The grand opening is set for 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 23, with a ribbon cutting at the new facility, […]
32 artists, artisans, chefs, jewelers, gardeners, designers and countless other creative Mainers are in the running this year for the 2013 Martha Stewart American Made awards. The yearly honor awards several prizes; there are ten winners picked by the staff of Martha Stewart Living, and then there are six audience choice category winners in Craft, […]
After 15 years and countless hours on-air and spent helping the community, Mike Elliott and Mike Dow of “The Mike and Mike Show” on Kiss 94.5 FM are bringing their show to a close this Friday. “We had been talking for a while about how we’d eventually want to end it, because you can’t do […]
The Maine Arts Commission on Monday announced the five fellows to be awarded its annual $13,000 arts fellowships in literary arts, media and performing arts, visual arts, traditional arts and, in a new category, functional craft. The MAC also awarded 28 other grants to a variety of individual artists, organizations and projects, with awards totaling […]
Neptune-Parker, right, with her daughter Janet Neptune and nephew George Neptune, at the National Folk Festival in Bangor in 2003. BDN photo by Scott Haskell. Molly Neptune-Parker, a Passamaquoddy basketweaver from Princeton, was named one of nine National Heritage Fellows by the National Endowment for the Arts. The […]
Photo by Jody Devost for Zac Brown All day long, it threatened to rain – but the predicted downpour stayed away for the duration of the Zac Brown Band’s set on the Bangor Waterfront Saturday night. Rain jackets, ponchos and hot chocolate were in heavy supply, and every other conversation overheard was about the weather, but […]
Seventeen Magazine readers supporting a new campaign on Change.org calling for one un-photoshopped photo spread per month will demonstrate outside of the magazine’s headquarters in New York City on Wednesday morning. A group of young women, led by 14-year-old Waterville middle schooler Julia Bluhm (pictured at left), will stage a mock photo shoot celebrating their bodies […]
A Maine teenager is making her voice heard via popular petition website Change.org. Julia Bluhm, a Waterville eighth-grader, has started a petition asking Seventeen Magazine to commit to printing one unaltered photo spread per month. In other words, to stop altering photos of models to make them appear slimmer. Bluhm, who after school dances ballet, is […]
