Fabulous flicks
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BY JEFF INGLIS
Frank Hopkins discovers the American Dream
Hopkins vented with Doomsday . Here he as produced something more measured, and, in the end, more long-lasting.
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SAM PFEIFLE | November 19, 2008
As Katrina hit New Orleans, filmmakers went to work
It is impossible not to wonder how Louisiana might have fared after Hurricane Katrina, had Barack Obama been in office a term sooner. There are so many questions about what went wrong and how it could have been handled differently, which have gone unanswered for more than three years.
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SONYA TOMLINSON | November 19, 2008
Hoopleville
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DAVID KISH | November 19, 2008
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Twilight puts the life back into the undead
Twilight puts the life back into the undead
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PETER KEOUGH | November 19, 2008
City beat
Three pieces of big news came out of Monday's Portland City Council meeting. Make sure you stay in the loop.
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DEIRDRE FULTON | November 19, 2008
Tuition pressure
The University of Maine system is being asked by the state to describe how it would cut $10.6 million from its budget — the equivalent of 5.3 percent of the state money it gets — on top of the $19.1 million in cuts imposed earlier this year.
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DEIRDRE FULTON | November 19, 2008
In Five Women Wearing the Same Dress
At this upper-crust Tennessee wedding, we never see the bride, but her quintet of reluctant bridesmaids gets down to some deep and dirty truths in the sassy, irreverent Five Women Wearing the Same Dress, an early comedy by Alan Ball.
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MEGAN GRUMBLING | November 19, 2008
Sibilance starts now
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PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | November 19, 2008
Press Releases
The long-floundering Portland Press Herald is about to have a new owner. At least, all signs suggest that the money necessary to seal the deal will come through by the end of the year.
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JEFF INGLIS | November 19, 2008
Music seen at SPACE Gallery, November 14
SPACE Gallery showcased a "Seven Sirens" all-lady lineup last Friday, in front of a packed house.
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SONYA TOMLINSON AND JEFF INGLIS | November 19, 2008
...in an underground hallway — and rediscovered at home
When I was working at the Harraseeket Inn in Freeport, two housekeepers who didn't speak English but giggled a lot brought in a pot of their family's borscht for the employee meal. In the dark basement hall where the employees ate, I tasted serious family-secret-cooking.
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LINDSAY STERLING | November 19, 2008
Sara Crall's expert hand is on show at Franklin Street Art Space
Viewing Sara Crall's new show, "observations of," at Franklin Street Art Space in Biddeford is like listening to a musician interpret her own song.
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IAN PAIGE | November 19, 2008
Politics and other mistakes
I'm not one of those people who assumes that just because somebody casually mentions they're thinking about running for governor of Maine in 2010, that they should be restrained, subjected to electro-shock therapy, and deported to someplace where they can't do any harm.
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AL DIAMON | November 19, 2008
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One week only: an exclusive excerpt from the acclaimed author's new novel
In the cold parlor of the St. Onge farmhouse, deep in the old collapsing couch, sort of wrapped in the couch, in its waves of whimpering springs and hills of upholstery of frazzled blue nap, are 15-year-old Brianna and Gordon.
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CAROLYN CHUTE | November 14, 2008
Hoopleville
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DAVID KISH | November 14, 2008
Diverse city
While I’m still celebrating the election results — and don’t plan to stop until just before Thanksgiving — there is one sobering thing.
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SHAY STEWART-BOULEY | November 12, 2008
Politics and other mistakes
Why did Maine voters give overwhelming approval to a tax-repeal referendum on Nov. 4, while simultaneously returning to office even more of the Democratic legislators who passed the unpopular tax in the first place?
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AL DIAMON | November 12, 2008
Energy in the drink
A new Ocean Energy Task Force, created by Governor John Baldacci last week, is charged in part with investigating the realities of drilling for oil and gas off the coast of Maine.
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DEIRDRE FULTON | November 12, 2008
What's cooking?
This summer, I ate a junebug. Actually, I ate three junebugs, prepared three different ways.