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Making a quiet killing — of itself and Maine's economy
Businesses in downtown Portland are on the move. Retail-property rents are lower than they have been in years, and stores are making deals left and right, with more than a dozen changing location in the past couple months.
By JEFF INGLIS  |  July 01, 2009

Keeping 'the Hope' alive on Fountain Street

As the ProJo turns
The decline of the American newspaper is a story often told in bold print.
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG  |  May 06, 2009

50. John Thain

EXECUTIVE WASHROOM ATTENDANT
This former Merrill Lynch executive used federal bailout bucks to remodel his office to the tune of $1.2 million. Hopefully, history books that retell the story of the financial crisis will remember him as the putz with the $35,000 toilet bowl.
By Boston Phoenix Staff  |  March 25, 2009
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Red all over

The Globe needs 50 buyout volunteers. So far, few are cooperating — and that likely means bloodshed on Morrissey Boulevard.
If there's one group of professionals whose job insecurity rivals that of the Detroit auto worker, it's the men and women who make America's newspapers.
By ADAM REILLY  |  February 26, 2009
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Health-care's big moneyman in New England

Lifespan CEO George Vecchione's compensation is tops in the region
Lifespan CEO George Vecchione's compensation is tops in the region
By STEVEN STYCOS  |  February 20, 2009

Media kills hero pilot

Herd-mentality pack lacks sufficient imagination to find another story
US Airways Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, who pulled off the "Miracle on the Hudson" emergency landing, was found beaten to death by the national media.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE  |  January 28, 2009

Bacaro

Classy snacks and entrées
Restaurants in food-oriented cities like Providence can be relied upon to beget spin-offs that, like high-achieving children, strive to make their parents proud. Thus was born Bacaro, the highly regarded prodigy that arrived in the spring of 2007.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ  |  January 15, 2009
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Running for Maine Senate

Five candidates in two districts
For this year’s candidate profiles, we assembled some basic information on each person seeking election, and then asked them to explain what their top priority would be.
By DEIRDRE FULTON  |  October 29, 2008

Question the answers

Politics and other mistakes
Lemoine is certainly not an incompetent doody-head. He’s a reckless weasel.
By AL DIAMON  |  September 17, 2008

Metal Feathers + Phantom Buffalo

Music seen at SPACE Gallery, July 19
The Year in Cult Maze Spin-Offs has taken yet another auspicious turn.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY  |  July 23, 2008
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Pillow talk

Digging into the Education Partnership-Achorn connection
Phillipe + Jorge were shocked  to learn via Buddy Cianci’s WPRO radio show that Valerie Forti, head of the financially troubled Education Partnership, is married to Eddie Achorn, editorial page editor of the Urinal.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE  |  July 02, 2008
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Gone but not forgotten

She Loves Me at the Huntington; plus Way Theatre Artists’ The Memory of Water
Before there was eHarmony, there were harmony and disharmony.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  May 27, 2008
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Enter triumphant

This year’s Elliot Norton Awards
It was a Martin love fest Monday night at the 26th annual Elliot Norton Awards, Boston theater’s annual pat on the head.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  May 14, 2008
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The war games

The Huntington’s The Cry of the Reed ; Travesties by the Publick
The Cry of the Reed seems torn from some particularly gruesome headlines: kidnapping, beheading, such stuff as Daniel Pearl’s final dreams were made on.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  April 15, 2008
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Rough magic

Shining City at the Huntington; ASP’s The Tempest
The cupboards of Irish dramaturgy are crammed with ghosts.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  March 18, 2008
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Bottled-spider web

Trinity’s Richard III; plus Shakespeare’s Actresses in America
Richard III  is a thing of additions and subtractions.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  February 05, 2008
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Victoria’s Diner

24-hour filling station
“Every few years, management changes, but we stay the same,” deadpans our waitress, a 40-year veteran of this Newmarket Square eatery.
By MC SLIM JB  |  January 02, 2008

Primary colors

It’s the political season on area stages
Now that the holiday hubbub is behind us, we have no dreams of white Christmases or visions of Sugar Plum Fairies to warm a theatergoer’s heart.
By LIZA WEISSTUCH  |  December 26, 2007

Plum Creek watchdog

Press releases
Thanks to a Phoenix reader, Maine residents now know something the Portland Press Herald was not telling them.
By JEFF INGLIS  |  December 19, 2007
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The best on the boards

Theatre: 2007 in review
There have been a few muggings on the rialto this year.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  December 17, 2007

No raises — it gets better

Fewer workers are also part of FairPoint’s plan to remain solvent
FairPoint, as you might expect, has been in a tizzy.
By JEFF INGLIS  |  November 20, 2007
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Exclusive: No raises for seven years

That’s just one way FairPoint plans to pay for northern New England's Verizon buyout
Shareholders will be worse off than customers — apparently even more so than they’re expecting.
By JEFF INGLIS  |  November 14, 2007
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Rabbit forming

Donnie Darko, plus The Bluest Eye and To Kill a Mockingbird
For further indication of the darkening zeitgeist, consider the personae of imaginary rabbits.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  December 16, 2008
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Theater of war

The Huntington revives Streamers
Director Scott Ellis doesn’t call David Rabe’s Streamers a play about war.
By IRIS FANGER  |  October 31, 2007
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Grief encounter

The Huntington’s Brendan  and the Lyric’s Dying City
The protagonist of Ronan Noone’s Brendan bestrides the narrow world, but hardly like a colossus.
By CAROLYN CLAY  |  October 25, 2007

Covering heroes

Letters to the Boston editor, October 26, 2007
I was fascinated by your article about firefighters and hero worship.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS  |  October 24, 2007

Hustlenomics

Politics and other mistakes
All human beings are born with an innate sense that they’re fiscally responsible.
By AL DIAMON  |  October 24, 2007
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Bye-bye blarney

Brendan introduces the American Ronan Noone
Ronan Noone is flummoxed.
By LIZA WEISSTUCH  |  October 01, 2007
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Channeling Hitchcock

The 39 Steps Lead from the Huntington to Broadway
The classic British hero is cool, collected, witty, slightly bored, well-mannered, and possessed of lightning-fast reflexes when needed.
By SALLY CRAGIN  |  September 04, 2007
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Internet disconnect

Getting online in Maine can be painfully slow. And the planned Verizon-FairPoint merger won’t help.
If only our state officials thought about fiber.
By JEFF INGLIS  |  August 22, 2007

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