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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

Blndsght offers eye-opening art

Venue watch
Watson Atkinson is a dynamic man.

By DEIRDRE FULTON | February 20, 2008

Maine’s Congressional delegation cowers in fear

Free expression
When criminal-trespassing charges were dropped February 5 against three Maine eco-activists, the activists were relieved.

By KIMBERLY FISCHER | February 20, 2008

Gender confusion?

Press releases
Press Herald watchers have long since tired of editor Jeannine Guttman’s roughly weekly “Editor’s Note” columns.

By JEFF INGLIS | February 13, 2008

We have many words for snow...

Toon time
Toon time

By DAVID KISH | February 13, 2008

Mainer’s TV show finds a home

Victory
“Mainers will be the first in the country each week to view The Edge ,” observes Sasseville.

By JILL HARRIGAN | February 13, 2008

Three firsts at NEPA

Laurels
Portland Phoenix contributing writers and staff took three first-place awards at the New England Press Association’s annual awards banquet February 9, and three second-place honors as well.

By JEFF INGLIS | February 13, 2008

Take a closer look at community space on the Hill

Priorities
East End neighborhood residents and city officials will gather at the Cummings Center on Munjoy Hill to try to hammer out the fate of the former Adams School property.

By DEIRDRE FULTON | February 13, 2008

Dinner and a movie

All-in-one
The new Cinemagic Grand at Clarks Pond is the latest and, so far, most amusing development in the regional theater chain’s evolution.

By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | February 06, 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

Ask, and ye shall receive from Channel 13

Media watch
Feel like cashing in your 15 minutes of fame sooner rather than later?

By DAVE BRADY | January 30, 2008

Canadian family keeps their trash

Screening
It’s hard to hide from consumerism when the evidence is slowly accumulating in the garage.

By DEIRDRE FULTON | January 30, 2008

Finding company in Evergreen Cemetery

Ghost buster
Joshua Fisher, 33, was walking through Evergreen Cemetery when he felt a “swirling energy sensation, like a bird flapping around my head.”

By DEIRDRE FULTON | January 23, 2008

Staph infection — the full story

In the flesh
That’s right, a rare bug that threatened to eat away at gay guys like mice on cheese is rampant in the city closest to Portland.

By TONY GIAMPETRUZZI | January 23, 2008

Thought for food

A million words for rice
If you’re going to waste your time (or your company’s time) online, stop thinking about porn or poker and do something constructive.

By CLIF GARBODEN | January 16, 2008

WMTW won’t air Mainer’s national talk show

TV talk
"WMTW would have to be nuts not to pick up this Maine-boy-done-good show!”

By JILL HARRIGAN | January 18, 2008

Piano movers and shakers

Relocations
Suddenly working through lunch on a Thursday seems out of the question.

By EMILY PARKHURST | January 16, 2008

Three prison-reform events

Getting organized
Three events centered on Martin Luther King Day will kick off a prison-reform movement in Maine.

By LANCE TAPLEY | January 16, 2008

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Two Maine Law students take on RIAA big guns
Two third-year law students working at the school’s Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic are taking on the RIAA on behalf of two university students.

By DEIRDRE FULTON | January 09, 2008