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Gambling on voters:
Downeast Mainers pin their hopes on the turn of the ballots
Do you want to expand gambling in Maine by letting the Passamaquoddy Tribe build and operate a slot-machine parlor, high-stakes beano games, and a harness-racing track in Washington County?
By:
JEFF INGLIS
NEWS FEATURES
Stacked up:
City Council and School Committee candidates answer our questions
For a moment, step away from the yammering about whose fault which snafu is — let’s find some people who know how to make decisions the community can embrace.
By:
DEIRDRE FULTON
NEWS FEATURES
Gov: Cut services while I travel overseas:
While Baldacci takes lobbyists’ money for a trip, his wife bills taxpayers
Lobbyists and campaign contributors are among the private interests paying for Governor John Baldacci’s upcoming trip to Asia, though the state forbids officials from accepting gifts.
By:
LANCE TAPLEY
MUSIC FEATURES
Mind over mind:
Jeff Beam’s solo debut passes Rock 101
Loyal readers of this column know that when it comes to the local music scene, college is the best of times and the worst of times.
By:
SAM PFEIFLE
THEATER
Watch your back:
Look out for Interference
The stage is set for surveillance.
By:
MEGAN GRUMBLING
THIS JUST IN
Are turtles making love at King Middle School?:
Sex Ed
“What your values are, and what actually happens, are quite different.”
By:
DEIRDRE FULTON
THIS JUST IN
Celebrating the deerly departed:
Fall feasts
Dressed in camouflage and toting hunter-orange cans of Miller High Life, a group of Portlanders gathered to celebrate the opening of deer season.
By:
LEISCHEN STELTER
FEATURES
The taste of love:
Thai red curry's secret is in the leaves
That childhood taunt, “Why don’t you marry it!” might actually be worth listening to if the love professed is of a kind of food.
By:
LINDSAY STERLING
NEW ENGLAND MUSIC NEWS
Portland scene report: October 26, 2007:
Sibilance starts now
The pressure’s on now for the PMF to produce some educational content worth those hard-earned ducats.
By:
PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF
THIS JUST IN
Mobilize against the war on Saturday:
Protest
Several buses will take Mainers down to Boston Common on October 27 to participate in one of 11 anti-war demonstrations planned nationwide for that day.
By:
DEIRDRE FULTON
NEW ENGLAND MUSIC NEWS
Nat Baldwin:
Music seen at Strange Maine, October 11, 2007
On record, Baldwin’s songs are lushly arranged and well-populated with guitar and effects.
By:
CHRISTOPHER GRAY
TALKING POLITICS
Hustlenomics:
Politics and other mistakes
All human beings are born with an innate sense that they’re fiscally responsible.
By:
AL DIAMON
COMIC STRIPS
Scary word find:
Hoopleville Halloween
By:
DAVID KISH
MUSIC FEATURES
Sailing the Seas of Blood:
By Blood Alone’s debut full-length is downright Ptolemaic
Two straight weeks reviewing discs with nautical themes in their packaging and not a sea shanty to be found.
By:
SAM PFEIFLE
LETTERS
Letters to the Portland editor: October 19, 2007:
Rowe's a Good Guy
Attorney General Steven Rowe does not deserve the attack on his character that was printed in your newspaper.
By:
LETTERS TO THE PORTLAND EDITOR
NEW ENGLAND MUSIC NEWS
MC Homeless:
Music seen at the White Heart, October 9, 2007
MC Homeless has a lot on his mind, and he was more than willing to share
By:
TODD RICHARD
RESTAURANT REVIEWS
Fateful changes:
Local 188 has a rough transition to a new home
Sociologist Arthur Stinchcombe has argued that those who work in dangerous conditions form “communities of fate” that result in greater solidarity and rigidity in unofficial workplace norms.
By:
BRIAN DUFF
NEW ENGLAND MUSIC NEWS
Portland scene report: October 19, 2007:
Sibilance starts now
She’s shaved her head. That’s always a good thing.
By:
PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF
MUSIC FEATURES
Colorful sounds:
A musician finds an orchestra inside her piano
Twice this weekend pianist Laura Kargul will attempt to climb a pianist’s version of Mount Everest: Maurice Ravel’s La Valse.
By:
EMILY PARKHURST
THIS JUST IN
Legislature moves to protect Maine journalists:
Shield law
“The very fact that the court would grant a motion like this, when there’s no suit pending,” she says. “You’ve got to be kidding me.”
By:
JEFF INGLIS
THIS JUST IN
They're no grasshoppers:
Food preservation
If you’re skeptical that local-food activists can survive the winter on, well, local foods, swing on by this Sunday’s Skill Share and Harvest Dinner.
By:
DEIRDRE FULTON
THEATER
Broken Glass:
There are a few cracks in Biddeford City Theater's production
“The scene is memory,” Tennessee Williams writes in his opening notes to The Glass Menagerie, and then: “Memory takes a lot of poetic licence.”
By:
MEGAN GRUMBLING
MUSEUM AND GALLERY
Secretive process:
Noriko Sakanishi creates her own way
Noriko Sakanishi’s work offers the viewer very little and delivers a great deal.
By:
KEN GREENLEAF
LIFESTYLE FEATURES
A loving abduction?:
Diverse city
Lola and Nicholas Kampf should write a parenting book.
By:
SHAY STEWART-BOULEY
TALKING POLITICS
The highway kind:
Politics and other mistakes
For critics of government excess, the Maine Turnpike Authority is a big target. You can even see it from outer space.
By:
AL DIAMON
BLOGS
ABOUT TOWN
Portland makes The Onion
posted at 3:30 PM / 10.24.2007
Public Transit - Private Business
posted at 12:28 PM / 10.18.2007
King Middle School and Birth Control
posted at 3:12 PM / 10.17.2007
US Rep Allen says OK to protest - as long as it's in private
posted at 3:44 PM / 10.9.2007
Youthful inspiration - it's an honor
posted at 3:53 PM / 10.8.2007
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