Imperatífs

CHRISTIE’S WORLD–A collector from Germany recently bid $6.9 million at Christie’s New York for Andrew Wyeth’s Above the Narrows–the No. 2 auction price ever recorded for a Wyeth (behind $10.3 million for Ericksons in 2007). Here in Maine, you can play follow the Wyeths for roughly “$1,000 a ticket” to join the Farnsworth Museum’s round-robin tour of Wyeth masterpieces April 13-16 at Philadelphia’s Museum of Art, Academy of Fine Arts, Rodin Museum, Barnes Foundation, and Wilmington’s Brandywine River Museum of Art (including a visit to N. C. Wyeth’s studio). Museum art historians accompanying your tour will bring Wyeth and his world alive. farnsworthmuseum.org

IF THEY BUILD IT…WE’LL NAME A MICROBREW FOR IT!–Leave it to Gritty McDuff’s to whip up zesty, fresh Red Claws Ale, named for our new Celtic’s NBA development league team. Catch some during Expo games and at Gritty’s locations in Portland, Freeport, and Lewiston. grittys.com

LA POÊME–Your valentine will love “this crystallized inkwell filled with aphrodisiac-infused chocolate body ink, which comes with a silicone-tipped feather pen, gold-colored foil envelope of poetry, and an evening mask from Poême,” says Nelly Hall of Condom Sense. “It’s the perfect gift for couples looking for fun on long winter nights or just spicing things up–also a wonderful wedding or anniversary present.” $60, qualitycondoms.com STONE IN LOVE WITH YOU–You knew at some point we’d start selling rocks up here. Kathy Chadwick ofIsland Granite Works deadpans, “Everything is natural. We don’t alter the rocks at all.” Pictured left: vase, $15; lamps reach $135. islandgraniteworks.com

LOVE SHACK–“We’re proud of our Maine concept,” says banker Luke Holden of his East 7th Street sideline, Luke’s Lobster, where the Cape Elizabeth native offers lobster rolls created with a “hot dog roll, lobster, mayo, and celery salt.” Don’t worry, Gordon Ramsay: Dad Jeff Holden (Portland Shellfish Co.) ships fresh representatives of homerus americanus directly to the new East Village eatery to ensure authenticity. lukeslobster.com

ROOF CANAL–For sale, by former working-waterfront activist Karen Sanford: the fourth bicuspid at 354 Danforth Street, among five identical cubes with commanding views of the Fore River. Affectionately known as one of “Teddy’s Teeth,” for Theodore Roosevelt’s famously square masticators, this 1906 concrete block boasts four bedrooms, a gas fireplace, and three tiers of sunny decks opening to the harbor below. Taxes are $7,664. mainestylerealty.com