News
Portland councilors maintain ‘status quo’ on public comment
Although he spoke only a handful of times during a four-hour meeting Feb. 19, Portland City Councilor Pious Ali summed up the will of...
Arts & Living
The new Empire: Backstage at Portland’s only full-time comedy club
The stairwell leading to Empire Comedy Club is packed with people. Behind the club’s closed doors are candlelit tables and dozens of folding chairs,...
On Stage: Human complexity at the heart of Good Theater’s ‘Pack...
What, if anything, justifies a lie? Principle? Patriotism? Somebody else’s lie?
Such questions become more than philosophical when Bob and Barbara Jackson (Paul Haley...
Viewpoint
Politics & Other Mistakes: Sweet nothings
When it comes to the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Maine, the bigtime political knowers from away are all quite certain about the...
A View from the Hill: Fairness shouldn’t require a sanitized public record
For the record, I’ve never been convicted or charged for any crime (except by my parents and my kids). Like most of us, I...
Miserable & Magical: We’ll always have Paris (without the ‘popping’)
When my boyfriend and I returned from a trip to Paris in December, we were asked the expected slew of questions: “How was the...
Another Viewpoint: Too much at stake to vote no on Question 1
Al Diamon’s Feb. 5 column ("Politics & Other Mistakes: Is there a pill for that?") betrays several common misconceptions about LD 798 and the upcoming...