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The second annual Portland Phoenix Maine Short Film Festival
It was a great night at One Longfellow Square, a really good spot for showing movies (including a curved wall onto which the films were projected!).

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | November 01, 2007

Cutting off your taxes to spite Uncle Sam

W-4 Peace
Take Larry Dansinger, who lives in Monroe, and who has withheld some or all of his owed taxes for years in opposition to US military action and policy.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | October 31, 2007

Stacked up

City Council and School Committee candidates answer our questions
For a moment, step away from the yammering about whose fault which snafu is — let’s find some people who know how to make decisions the community can embrace.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | October 25, 2007

Are turtles making love at King Middle School?

Sex Ed
“What your values are, and what actually happens, are quite different.”

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | October 24, 2007

Mobilize against the war on Saturday

Protest
Several buses will take Mainers down to Boston Common on October 27 to participate in one of 11 anti-war demonstrations planned nationwide for that day.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | October 24, 2007

They're no grasshoppers

Food preservation
If you’re skeptical that local-food activists can survive the winter on, well, local foods, swing on by this Sunday’s Skill Share and Harvest Dinner.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | October 17, 2007

Comics for Christ

Evangelicals are speaking in bubbles — and fighting God’s war on pop culture
Young Laurel Templeton spends her summer vacation “kidnapped by five cyborg flies and shrunk down to insect size so [she can] travel back in time with them to save the world from an evil spider.” You know, typical stuff.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | October 10, 2007

Bob Dylan

Music seen at the Cumberland County Civic Center, October 4, 2007
It was like waking up next to someone and realizing that he’s simply no longer the man you fell in love with.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | October 10, 2007

High hopes for Boston Beanstalks’ weekend in Portland

Tall club
As you wander through the Old Port this weekend, don’t worry that you’ve shrunk overnight. You’re the same height — it’s everyone else who’s taller.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | October 10, 2007

Gas up!

Going green
Unfortunately, purchasing a Prius is out of the question — although a girl can dream.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | October 03, 2007

Prudish publication makes its debut

Return to modesty
You won’t see any bikinis in Eliza’s swimsuit spread, just one-pieces and a few belly-covering tankinis.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | October 10, 2007

New Portland writer gets a life-changing surprise

Welcome
She calls the award “miraculous,” and indeed, it’s an apt narrative for a woman who relishes magical realism.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | September 26, 2007

Environmentally yours

Two new takes on global warming
Environmental interest groups, Shellenberger and Nordhaus claimed, simply don’t dream big enough to address the multifaceted monster that is global warming.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | September 24, 2007

Earth, Air, Fire, and Water

Can Maine’s alternative-energy sources save the day?
It’s going to take more than screwing in a few compact fluorescent light bulbs to make a dent in the state’s energy use.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | September 19, 2007

Here comes the neighborhood

Venue watch
She wants you to cook some bacon, scramble some eggs, and pour some mimosas — and she wants you to be able to do it all at the last minute.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | September 19, 2007

Watering down

Going green
One of my most egregious self-indulgences is a nice, long, hot shower.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | September 12, 2007

The Common Ground Fair offers uncommonly good fun

Coming up
If Maine is the way life should be, then the annual Common Ground Country Fair gives us some reasons why.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | September 13, 2007

With a blank slate, anything’s possible. Plus, Art on Decks

Skate park
Today, the cracked and faded tennis courts off St James Street are nothing much to look at.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | September 05, 2007

Keep yourself alive

How to avoid the Freshman 15, cure a hangover, get some sleep — and still have fun
I’ll admit that my college years weren’t my healthiest.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | August 29, 2007

Imitation and flattery

Nation building
If the replica Green Monster, Citgo sign, and Coke bottles at the Sea Dogs’ Hadlock Field don’t sufficiently feed your Red Sox fever, don’t fret.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | September 13, 2007

Kennebunkport protest expected to draw around 5000

Protest round-up
Cindy Sheehan seems unable to stay away from the peace movement that she publicly cut ties with just over two months ago.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | August 22, 2007

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