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Altered states

Talking drugs, Zen, and painting with art critic Ken Johnson
Talking drugs, Zen, and painting with art critic Ken Johnson

By IAN PAIGE | March 04, 2009

Good riddance

Maine activist plans shoe-hurling action
Kennebunk activist Jamilla El-Shafei is at it again.

By DEIRDRE FULTON | January 07, 2009

Toilet talk

The new world of going green in the bathroom
Bathroom math used to be simple: Number 1 or Number 2. That was it.

By PHILIP EIL | January 09, 2009

Facebook becomes an Israeli-Palestinian 'battleground'
The war in Israel and Gaza has quickly expanded to Facebook, where backers of both camps are using many of the social networking site's features to voice their opinions in graphic and sometimes absurd ways.

By PETER PIATETSKY | January 12, 2009

Black or blue

MLK EVENTS
What if blue eyes were like black skin?

By DEIRDRE FULTON | January 07, 2009

Citizen organization re-envisions a city street

Reclaiming Franklin
A group of local and state government officials, neighborhood representatives, and open-space advocates are in the beginning stages of an effort they hope will transform Franklin Arterial.

By DEIRDRE FULTON | December 24, 2008

Survivor winnings could help the state

WINDFALL FOR MAINE
We can be certain that the state's bean-counters are looking forward to Crowley's 2008 tax return — and its accompanying check.

By JEFF INGLIS | December 23, 2008

Prisoners’ support services slashed

Baldacci’s Warehouse
Governor John Baldacci announced on December 16 that he had taken significant steps toward warehousing prisoners instead of rehabilitating them.

By LANCE TAPLEY | December 23, 2008

Food fight

Green thumbs up in arms
After stewarding the garden's 14 acres for years, the South Central farmers found themselves at the beginning of this decade in the middle an ownership dispute.

By DEIRDRE FULTON | December 10, 2008

A terror unlike the usual terrors

Report From Mumbai
"Mumbai meri jaan" is a phrase that has been carried in the hearts of dreamers in this city, on tongues parched by lack of clean water, and on record players that scratch since 1956.

By KATHRYN GEARHART | December 04, 2008

Movies are moving, hot dogs are hopping, Binga's is burning

Venue watch
Even as the temperatures drop and we head into hibernation mode for winter, Portland's drinking, dining, nightlife, and shopping scenes continue to evolve. Here's a round-up of comings and goings.

By DEIRDRE FULTON | November 26, 2008

Slow Food movement to address the G8

GLOBAL AND LOCAL
Next summer, delegates from a worldwide effort to preserve and celebrate small-scale and indigenous farming in the face of corporate agribusiness conglomerates will address the very officials who represent the evils of globalization.

By JESSICA RHYS | January 05, 2009

Mad Horse starts new midweek theater series

Darkness falls early
This month, Mad Horse Theater Company offers the inaugural installment of a new way to savor theater: in an array of morsels, with no waiting until the weekend.

By MEGAN GRUMBLING | October 09, 2008

PACTS priorities are a green-transport victory

Reality-based community
Portland Area Comprehensive Transportation Committee showed that Southern Maine’s transportation priorities are rooted in our current economic conditions.

By DEIRDRE FULTON | October 09, 2008

Sony’s loss is Portland’s gain

Music money
Three local music entities are reaping the benefits of a major national lawsuit against big-name music institutions.

By DEIRDRE FULTON | October 02, 2008

Out for a spin

One week, one limited-edition Porsche — what to do?
Driving a 2008 Porsche Boxster RS 60 Spyder Limited Edition is an exercise in ridiculous, indulgent impracticality. But it's fun.

By JEFF INGLIS | October 02, 2008

Skatepark design picked

Results
Results

By JEFF INGLIS | October 01, 2008

Portlandhenge returns

Alignments
Sorry to be a drag, but summer is officially over: at 11:44 am on Monday, September 22, the sun passed directly over the Earth’s equator to mark the autumnal equinox.

By CHRISTIAN MCNEIL | September 25, 2008