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Judge orders injections for Maine prisoner

Maryland exile
A Maryland court has ordered Maine prisoner Deane Brown to be forcibly injected with insulin, if necessary.

By LANCE TAPLEY | April 23, 2008

Real activists know Jimmy Higgins

Learning from history
The changes 21st-century presidential candidates talk about are modest in comparison with the radical leftist politics of the first half of the last century.

By MEGAN GRUMBLING | April 23, 2008

Union seeking rich person to purchase daily newspaper

Matchmaking
Newspaper employees, 600 +/-, and their labor union in search of rich, secure sugar daddy (or mommy, or daddies, or mommies, or some of each) for long-term relationship to provide stability, income, employment.

By JEFF INGLIS | April 16, 2008

Record lows, indies peak

Musical notes
Last week’s number 10 album, Van Morrison’s Keep it Simple, sold just 37,000 copies.

By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | April 16, 2008

Staying focused

Press releases
If current PPH newshounds don't stay sharp, they might as well be writing on the wall.

By JEFF INGLIS | April 09, 2008

Rustic live in Philly, with candles

On the road
“I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I was impressed,” local Dave Robinson said after. “The guy’s voice is killer.”

By RYAN O'CONNELL | April 09, 2008

Maine stings from a slap on the wrist

Real ID
Like a rebellious older sibling, Maine was the first state to pass a resolution rejecting "Real ID" in January 2007, and followed up five months later with a law preventing the state from participating.

By DEIRDRE FULTON | April 09, 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

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

Rustic hit the road

Going national
Sure, you Portlanders are used to cool things like live in-store appearances from your favorite local bands, but those of us who get our pipeline of culture from the Windham Bull Moose are rarely as lucky.

By SAM PFEIFLE | March 26, 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

Short Play Fest turns eight

Quick shows
It’s time once again to bring Maine’s playwrights out of their writing rooms, and to realize their creations on stage.

By MEGAN GRUMBLING | March 26, 2008

Freeport senior is a young Renaissance Man

Conversations in a box
Last fall, Freeport high-schooler Kevin Henthorn’s The Art of Walking won the Film of the Year award in the Phoenix’s Maine Short Film Festival.

By DEIRDRE FULTON | March 19, 2008

Important event reaches predictable audience

Anti-war stories
“There’s a term, ‘Once a marine, always a marine,’” Jon Michael Turner of Burlington, Vermont, told a crowd at the Winter Soldier II hearings in Maryland last weekend.

By DEIRDRE FULTON | March 19, 2008

Pressure is on

Press releases
The execs over at the Portland Press Herald are notoriously tight-lipped when it comes to talking about their newspaper to other media organizations.

By JEFF INGLIS | March 12, 2008

Don't let Portland come in second

Twin city tournament
Thankfully, it doesn’t look like we’ll lose to Boston.

By DEIRDRE FULTON | March 12, 2008

10,000 Bone Crazy

Screenplay brainstorming
I was thinking we could smear dirt on them and cover them in rodent bones.

By WILL MACLAUGHLIN | March 12, 2008

Native Portlander makes good at Sundance

Local film
Don’t watch The Execution of Solomon Harris expecting a treatise about the death penalty.

By DEIRDRE FULTON | March 06, 2008

State sued over inmate’s death

Silencing alarms
As severely mentally ill Maine State Prison inmate Ryan Rideout prepared to hang himself from a sprinkler in his cell on the night of October 5, 2006, other inmates frantically pressed panic buttons in their cells.

By LANCE TAPLEY | March 05, 2008

Beat the clock

Does anybody really know what time it is?
“The Earth is a terrible timekeeper,” says Geoff Chester, the spokesman for this country’s official clock-master, the US Naval Observatory in Washington, DC.

By JEFF INGLIS | February 27, 2008