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Celebrating identity on Munjoy Hill

The Femme Show
Wild costumes. Barbie dolls and hula hoops, burlesque, dancing, storytelling, acting, and film. All these things, and more, will be part of the Femme Show...
By: DEIRDRE FULTON  |  March 04, 2009

Saving the earth

Seeing the climate-change forest for the carbon-storing trees.
Former Green gubernatorial candidate Jonathan Carter's 120 acres in Lexington township will be the first-ever officially designated "carbon sequestration forest." It remains to be seen whether they will also be the only one.
By: DEIRDRE FULTON  |  February 25, 2009
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Hope for young homebuyers

The lousy economy — and Obama's stimulus package — has a silver lining
Good news if you're in a sufficiently stable financial situation to think of bailing from greater Portland's rental-housing morass.
By: DEIRDRE FULTON  |  February 23, 2009

Growing good air

Going green
What's greener than houseplants?
By: DEIRDRE FULTON  |  February 18, 2009
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A long-silent civil-rights heroine comes to Maine

Changing history
It's a writer's dream — to stumble across a story, a figure, or a moment in time, that influenced our history but remains relatively untouched by the hands of academia or pop culture.
By: DEIRDRE FULTON  |  February 19, 2009
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Transmission troubles

We're all about wind power — but do we have a way to harness green energy?
Late last month, Maine's second large commercial wind farm officially opened at Stetson Mountain in the eastern part of the state. But for all this potential, both in terms of the power source itself, and the brainpower behind it, Maine risks losing a lot of money.
By: DEIRDRE FULTON  |  February 11, 2009
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Knowing glances

Field notes
Admit it: Even if you've never posted a Missed Connection on Craigslist, or had one written about you, you've probably perused them.
By: DEIRDRE FULTON  |  February 11, 2009
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Hurtin' for a yurtin'

Love letters to Maine
Safe to say, we weren't exactly roughing it.
By: DEIRDRE FULTON  |  February 04, 2009

Going green: Ghostbusters

Reducing phantom loads
My monthly rent payment includes heat and electricity, a luxury I'm still getting used to at the new apartment I moved into this summer.
By: DEIRDRE FULTON  |  January 28, 2009
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Teach a woman to fish...she'll never want to leave

Love letters to Maine
The cluster of small shacks that comprise Jim's Smelt Camp in Bowdoinham look like a tiny shantytown; were that it was so — I would move right in.
By: DEIRDRE FULTON  |  January 29, 2009
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Slideshow: Smelting in Maine

Ice fishing for smelt  
Smelting in Maine
By: DEIRDRE FULTON  |  January 29, 2009
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Are you a retrosexual?

Facebook's latest erotic application
A few months back, one of my best friends from high school slept with the guy to whom, years earlier, she had lost her virginity.
By: DEIRDRE FULTON  |  January 22, 2009
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Thoughts on the 36th anniversary of Roe V. Wade

 Woman rights
To commemorate that anniversary, the Maine Choice Coalition, along with the Maine Civil Liberties Union, the League of Young Voters, and the Portland Phoenix, are teaming up to screen the film I Had An Abortion at SPACE Gallery on Wednesday, January 28.   
By: DEIRDRE FULTON  |  January 21, 2009

Legislature will take up gay marriage this session

Equal rights
Maine lawmakers are certain to debate gay marriage in 2009, with competing marriage-related bills slated to be filed with the Legislature this week.
By: DEIRDRE FULTON  |  January 14, 2009
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Keep calm and carry on

City life can be uniquely draining.
Keep calm and carry on
By: DEIRDRE FULTON  |  January 14, 2009
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Good riddance

Maine activist plans shoe-hurling action
Kennebunk activist Jamilla El-Shafei is at it again.
By: DEIRDRE FULTON  |  January 07, 2009

Preaching to the choir

Alternative left
Despite the curious omission of the Phoenix, that bastion of liberal, progressive, alternative news, The Nation's Guide to the Nation (Vintage) mostly lives up to its stated goal of being " a kind of collage of the Left.
By: DEIRDRE FULTON  |  January 07, 2009

Black or blue

MLK EVENTS
What if blue eyes were like black skin?
By: DEIRDRE FULTON  |  January 07, 2009
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Vampires want more than just blood

Sensitivity
In these trying times, we've shunned wizards for vampires
By: DEIRDRE FULTON  |  December 31, 2008
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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

Ridiculous and sublime

Maine got stranger in 2008
 Certainly what will stick out most in our minds are those wonderful hours late on November 4, when we hugged and cheered and attempted to get from one side of Empire to the other without spilling our beer.
By: DEIRDRE FULTON  |  December 23, 2008
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