News
Portland Planning Board considers massive downtown condo-and-hotel project
The Portland Planning Board on Aug. 9 was slated to hold a public hearing and potential vote on a master development plan for a...
Arts & Living
On Stage: Modern takes on classic tales in ‘Pass Over,’ ‘Eurydice’
On a desolate city block, near a mound of concrete, under a streetlight like a metallic tree, two Black men, Moses (Ashanti Williams) and...
Music: Trawl rise ‘From the Murky Depths’ to PHOME
How’s your relationship with live music?
As strange as it is to remember the fog of cigarette smoke that once dominated a rock show,...
Viewpoint
Unpacking the Sausage: 20 questions
Another week, another array of too much nonsense. To keep things from getting too heavy, I thought we might play a game of 20...
Politics & Other Mistakes: Wit and wisdom of Paul LePage, 2022 edition
There are those who believe that listening to the campaign pronouncements of Republican gubernatorial candidate Paul LePage is a lot like listening to a...
The Universal Notebook: Privacy and public figures
Novelist and Portland native Elizabeth Strout's “Oh William!” has been nominated for the Booker Prize, which is given to works of fiction written in English and...