The Portland Phoenix took home four honors from the New England Press Association (NEPA) awards banquet this past weekend, competing in a division that includes both alternative weekly newspapers and community weeklies from around New England.Contributing writer RICK WORMWOOD won first place in the General News Story category for "Who Killed Edward Okeny?" (December 7, 2007), an investigation of the mysterious — and still-unsolved — death of a 26-year-old member of Portland's Sudanese community.
Staff writer DEIRDRE FULTON took second place for Reporting on Religious Issues with her story "Comics For Christ" (October 12, 2007), a report on how evangelical Christians are using manga graphic novels and other elements of pop culture to promote Christian values.
PORTLAND STYLE, our quarterly fashion magazine, won second place in the Niche Publication category, and our GRAPHIC-DESIGN DEPARTMENT took third in the Local Black-and-white Advertisement category.
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- Phoenix group harvests 17 regional press prizes
The New England Press Association (NEPA) annual newspaper contest has always been good to us.
- Be Progressive
What Jeff Inglis and Deirdre Fulton fail to address in their coverage of Barack Obama.
- Slideshow: Smelting in Maine
Smelting in Maine
- Creating an oyster legacy
While awaiting brunch at Vignola one Sunday afternoon, the server surprised us with two oysters on the half-shell, topped with vibrant pomegranate seeds.
- Learning lost
I read Deirdre Fulton's recent article in the Phoenix about the impact of technology and "learner-centered" education on the college experience with a mixture of admiration, because I think she got most things correct, and dread, because I think she got most things correct.
- Population control, not insect eating
In her article " Eat Me! Delicious Insects Will Save Us All ," Deirdre Fulton writes that "bugs could be a solution to a host of emerging problems, including world hunger and environmental woes." It seems to me that adding a billion people every 13 years to the home planet's human burden (the current growth rate) will outstrip any such "solution."
- Broadway at Good Theater at the St. Lawrence, December 5
The overwhelming scent of assorted perfumes and folks in their Sunday best filled the St. Lawrence for Good Theater's annual production of "Broadway at Good Theater."
- Good Theater's marathon production, and other theatre highlights of 2010
In my local orbits among both actors and theater-goers, one play of 2010 continues to be regularly hailed in conversation: GOOD THEATER 's momentous production of August: Osage County , a profane and exceptionally funny foray into Middle American generational pathos.
- Phoenix wins NENPA honors
At the New England Newspaper and Press Association awards banquet earlier this month, Portland Phoenix writers earned several awards in the weekly newspaper category.
- Not-so-progressive nightmares and the Buy Local survey
Deirdre Fulton's characterization of the nightmare unfolding in Augusta is accurate (" Progressive Nightmare ," March 18); her characterization of that as a "progressive" nightmare is not.
- Review: Good Theater's hilarious Farce
You can tell a lot about a couple by their bedroom, says proper English matron Delia (Cathy Counts) to her husband Ernest (Bob McCormack).
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