We got a pet psychic to read our cats’ minds
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‘Our Man in Havana’ is a light take on pre-Castro Cuba
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Your bartender might secretly hate you
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City looks to force developers to build apartments for the middle class
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How free community college could transform higher education
Wait, wait — did Obama just fix everything that’s wrong with college ...
Watching ‘The Wire’ after Ferguson
Great art captures the complexities of the human condition — just as ...
Seriously, this is your government at work
Last week Maine lawmakers released all the bills to be considered during ...
Lawyers v. landlords in city fight over fire code
In the aftermath of last fall’s Noyes Street apartment fire that killed ...
Featured show: KGFREEZE w/ Old etc. and Cool Tara
It’s nine o’clock on a Friday night. The usually acerbic Kyle ...
LePage’s fight with the feds only hurts Maine
Governor LePage waged some high stakes battles against President Obama’s Affordable Care ...
2015 winter survival guide
Maine’s punishing winters are the stuff of legend. But the meteorological side ...
Music at the museum, and The Psychologist drops a new mix
Night at the Museum Last spring the Portland Museum of Art kicked ...
About that alt-weekly war …
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The five stages of grief: a winter reading list
Getting through winter in Maine can be a psychologically draining descent ...
A fleeting look at climate change
We tend to view science and art as distinct, exclusive pursuits of ...
Video kills the internet star
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The Band Apollo reaches for the stars
Maine has rarely been known nationwide for big-name acts. We’ve had Howie ...
Food delivery options to spice up winter
You’ve finally trapped your body heat under a blanket on the ...
Ten Ten Píe chef dishes on Huong’s pho
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Bogarting the vote: Three vie to write Maine’s legal pot law
A decade ago, legalized marijuana was an aspirational concept rarely discussed outside ...
Recipes to make you forget you’re drinking coffee brandy
In a 2006 Washington Post story, writer David Fahrenthold dubbed coffee brandy the ...
Getting over stage fright at Crowbait Club
I was already two beers deep and the show was only thirty ...
When musicians survive their careers
The poems in Maine poet Dave Morrison’s tenth collection, Shake Hands with ...
Zodiac Zone: Don’t be impulsive
Mercury, the planet of the week, is retrograde in Aquarius and teaming ...
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The missing ingredient to a truly local beer
To give you an idea of the gap between Maine’s current hop production and that of the Pacific Northwest (where Maine has traditionally gotten most of its hops): In 2014, Washington state, the country’s top producer by a significant margin, harvested around 28,858 acres worth of hops. Maine harvested a total of 10. Local beer production, and […]
Arts tax district shrinks to one building
The city is expected to shrink the downtown tax district named after the arts, renaming it after a building that houses an advertising agency. The so-called arts TIF district will soon be known as the Baxter Library TIF district, as the city will reduce this zone’s boundaries to include only the former public library property […]
Why did ‘American Sniper’ outsell ‘Selma’?
Thanks to Hollywood, we’ve come to expect a certain type of hero. We want them all to be courageous, bold, and working towards a greater good. We want them to fight for what they believe in. Two recent films, Selma and American Sniper, depict the mostly true stories of two men who fit that model: […]
Ugly truths about cheating
I’ve never cheated on anyone and no one has ever cheated on me. That’s the rose-colored world in which I choose to live, where having an outrageous summer fling the summer after high school wasn’t really cheating — because “technically” I had mostly broken up with my high school BF a few days earlier. It’s […]
Don’t undo Maine’s progress
Maine has a long history of finding the will of its voters frustrated by the Supreme Court. After all, we owe our existence as a state to the Missouri/Maine Compromise of 1820, which was later ruled unconstitutional in Dred Scott v Sanford. And it continues today. In the last couple years, Maine voters rejected a […]
York County is suddenly home to a lot of great beer
Portland is expensive for anybody trying to start a business here. But the more affordable York County has experienced its own hip reinvigoration over the last few years. The space along the I-95 corridor from Scarborough to Kittery has proven to be fertile ground for a proliferation of restaurants, bars and breweries. The combined […]
Shorts at Space, nude Brits, and jewelry made of hair
| Thurs 29 SALUTE THE SHORTS | A lot gets lost during the jam-packed Oscar Awards broadcast every year. Despite the fact that the pre-show starts at like, 4 p.m. and continues well into February, there is simply not enough to talk about when it comes to who made whose dress, who is on […]
Zodiac Zone: Everything is an experiment
Mercury retrograde is in full swing. Move slowly. Get together with old friends. Finish a book you abandoned. Consider everything an experiment and an exploration. If you commit, make sure you can change your mind or alter your terms. Aries: Cancer Moon favors a trip back home. See your parents and connect with family […]
Lorem Ipsum takes on two Churchill plays
We’ve grown rather fond of the anti-hero: the Don Drapers and the Piper Chapmans of our fictional worlds. We love them for their shortcomings, and even when they take it one step too far, it’s often hard not to admire them for it. So when Mariah Bergeron’s Marion snakes her way to the top of […]
