Tuesday, March 28, 2023
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Brynn Lewallen, Rijah Newell, and Liz Freeman in the 2022 Maine Playwrights Festival.(Photo credit: Bree Candland)

Annual playwrights festival to take place in April

An annual event of local playwrights will premiere five new plays over the course of 10 days next month. Now in its twenty-first year, the...
scenes from three 2022 movies include Nope, Prey and Speak No Evil

The after-Oscar review: A bunch of 2022 movies you missed, now streaming

We’ve reached the end of one movie year with the dominant sweep that Everything Everywhere All At Once achieved at the Academy Awards, and...
a colorful painting by John Bisbee depicts a person walking near a cluster of trees and peering at a purple-colored moon

Art Seen: In love with paint – John Bisbee and Emilie Stark-Menneg amaze one...

Over the past 30 years, John Bisbee has established himself as perhaps the best-known sculptor in Maine by virtue of the wondrous array of...
South Portland’s Jaelen Jackson shares the gold ball with fans after the Red Riots captured their second straight Class AA boys basketball state championship. (Photo courtesy Cindy Russell)

Game On: 5 takeaways from Maine’s first normal HS basketball tournament since 2020

It blows my mind to think that the 2022-23 Maine high school basketball season has come and gone. I wrote about the most wonderful...
A yellow-rumped warbler awaits the fate of several environmental bills facing the Maine Legislature. (Portland Phoenix/Nick Lund)

Into the Wild: The best environmental bills in this Legislature

A new Maine legislative session is underway and those looking to protect Maine’s environment are excited about the opportunities. Gov. Janet Mills was reelected...
The book cover for "Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins" by Aidan Levy.

The secret sounds of Sonny Rollins (and his Maine connection)

Sonny Rollins is one of those rarified artists that even people who “don’t like jazz” could probably identify — as a saxophone player, a...
The members of '90s alt-country band Say ZuZu have reunited for a new album. (Photo: Edwin Remsberg)

Second session: Say ZuZu return after 20 years with ‘No Time to Lose’

When Say ZuZu released “Highway Signs & Driving Songs” in 1995, they were part of a vibrant movement, with bands like Uncle Tupelo (and...
Cheverus junior Mikayla Talbot transferred from Camden Hills for her sophomore year and lives with family in Westbrook so she can compete with the Stags. (Photo by Cindy Russell)

Game On: Cheverus hockey star Mikayla Talbot makes winning decision 

With no girls hockey available for Mikayla Talbot at Camden Hills Regional High School, something had to change to make her dream of playing...
Joe Bearor as Jamie Wyeth and Michael Grew as Rudolf Nureyev stand together in a scene from the play "Nureyev's Eyes"

On Stage: Good Theater two-hander finds beauty in ‘art madness’

The friendship that fuels “Nureyev’s Eyes” involves two very different icons of the art world. Jamie Wyeth (Joe Bearor), third-generation American visual art royalty, is...
Jean-Marcel St. Jacques (b. 1972), "Mother Sister May Have Sat in That Chair When She Lived in This House Before Me," 2014, Wood, nails, and antique hardware on a plywood backing, 84 x 96 in. American Folk Art Museum.

Art Seen: Fun with folk art

The activity piece the Portland Museum of Art provides to those who see “American Perspectives: Stories from the American Folk Art Museum Collection” (through...