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Who wants to go to Augusta?
As with the candidates for Maine Senate, we compiled some biographical information on each candidate and then asked each person what they would take action on right up front, if they were elected.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | October 29, 2008

Day by day

A new film examines Marsden Hartley’s life
Everyone has their own Marsden Hartley. That happens with great painters, and Hartley was one of the greatest of 20th-century American artists.
By KEN GREENLEAF | October 29, 2008

Celebrate Words and Images

Speed talking
There will be plenty of zoom, dynamism, and edge in the multi-media celebration that will launch the latest Words and Images .
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | September 25, 2008

Morality plays

It’s hard to escape politics this fall
The next six weeks of American life will be marked by a theatrical onslaught of ambition, contention, and colorful character development.
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | September 10, 2008

New beginnings

Classical music comes alive this fall
Step into any classical music rehearsal space right now and you can almost taste the excitement.
By EMILY PARKHURST | September 10, 2008

Laymoon is lemon

How a Lebanese woman makes tabouleh
El-taha’s house in Falmouth is populated with an easy Lebanese-American combo-culture.
By LINDSAY STERLING | August 27, 2008

Group effort

Be the Guffman crowd's guest at Chef et al.
It felt slightly like the Waiting for Guffman crowd had opened a restaurant.
By BRIAN DUFF | June 11, 2008

Who gives a truth?

Augusten Burroughs and James Frey try to overcome authenticity scandals with grim new books
Both authors write largely about issues of addiction and abuse, but they couldn’t have more different styles.
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | May 28, 2008

Image-ination

Changing our minds, and then the world
The Phoenix sat down with Jason Read, the film series’s curator and an assistant professor of philosophy at USM, to discuss how this revolutionary concept can still influence artistic practice.
By IAN PAIGE | April 16, 2008

Promoting human rights at home

The enemy within
“We have a holier-than-thou” attitude in the United States about human-rights violations abroad, said Bart Carhart, a student organizer of the new Amnesty International chapter at the University of Southern Maine.
By LANCE TAPLEY | April 02, 2008

Portland hopes to bridge cultural divides

Open-door policy
This February marked the six-year anniversary of journalist Daniel Pearl’s horrifying death at the hands of Islamist extremists.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | April 02, 2008

Portland hosts a gaggle of literary ladies this week

Chick lit
Looks like supporting women artists now shouldn’t be too hard — this week.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | March 26, 2008

Painting My Bloody Valentine

Gideon Bok’s analogous responses at USM Gorham
Thump! The needle hits the record with an abrasive scratch and then the music begins.
By IAN PAIGE | March 19, 2008

Travel green

Letters to the Portland editor: February 22, 2008
Since my arrival to Maine in the past year, I have been more than amply informed about the green energy crisis.
By LETTER TO THE PORTLAND EDITOR | February 20, 2008

Are the prisons overcrowded?

Letters to the Portland editor: February 15, 2008
I am asking the whole Legislative Committee to physically go and inspect the prison to ascertain how much bed space is there.
By LETTERS TO THE PORTLAND EDITOR | February 13, 2008

Welcome to Atlantica

Free trade
Big companies in northern New England and eastern Canada have launched another initiative to free themselves from what they consider to be onerous government regulation and oversight.
By KIMBERLY FISCHER | February 06, 2008

Left out

There's a lot in Portland's past the "history" books won't tell you
I first heard about Stanley five years ago, from a firefighter up on Munjoy Hill.
By BRENDAN HUGHES | January 30, 2008

Prodigal daughter

The future of classical music is here
When pianist Anastasia Antonacos walks into the coffee shop for our interview, it is clear even without a piano in the room why she has been so successful.
By EMILY PARKHURST | January 23, 2008

Vibrant and crunchy

Home-cooked Turkish delights
In the shadow of the Maine Mall is a residential street lined with duplexes that all look alike.
By LINDSAY STERLING | January 16, 2008

D.C. wannabes

Twelve people want to represent you in Washington; we explain who they are as the winnowing begins
Already some candidates have come and gone, but the field remains wide open as candidates prepare for the June 2008 primaries.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | December 26, 2007

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