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Sloane Ginevan, a senior girl with blond hair, stands on a field wears shorts and a green long-sleeve warmup shirt, and wears a knee brace while holding a lacrosse stick

Game On: Happy and healthy, Falmouth’s Ginevan flourishes on lacrosse field

In the second game of the season, Sloane Ginevan received a pass at the eight-meter mark, steadied her hips and knees, and ripped a...
Mike O'Hehir of Coyote Island, a white bearded man wearing a brimmed hat, button down shirt and watch, smokes a rolled cigarette while smiling at the camera

Old Soul: The mystical pop of Coyote Island

We ask a lot of our artists. We want new music, new movies, new movements of visual arts, new dances to deploy at weddings...
Two actors clad in loose and colorful stitched-together material perform a scene in the Desert of Maine by Ziggurat Theatre Ensemble. (Photo courtesy Ziggurat Theatre Ensemble)

On Stage: Ziggurat brings the desert theater heat with ‘The Sand Princess’

At the start of “The Sand Princess,” the whole ensemble enters from a great distance, coming into sight as tiny figures over the cusp...
Cidny Bullens wears a black button up shirt and talks on stage before a backdrop of an old picture of himself with long hair

Cidny Bullens’ ‘TransElectric’ is the rock ‘n’ roll tell-all for our times

In “Me,” Elton John’s 2019 memoir, Cidny Bullens does not get a mention. But Cid was there, singing as one of a trio of...
a sculpture from material harvested from the sea by Celeste Roberge

Art Seen: Celeste Roberge’s sophisticated art of the beach

Back in 1990 when I published “Maine Art Now,” I selected a Celeste Roberge sculpture for the cover in order to make the point...
a person on stage wears a white shirt over their head with their hand in the air

Maine’s fringe theater festival rolls on, opens June 1

The trees have leafed out, people have started jumping in the ocean, and PortFringe, Portland’s irrepressible and joyous summer performing arts festival, is about...
An Atlantic Puffin on the water

Into the Wild: Answering autocomplete questions about Maine wildlife

Feeling prematurely nostalgic about its imminent replacement by AI, I checked in with my old pal Google the Search Engine to see how it...

Variegated metal: Manuel puts his guitar out front in ‘Underneath’

In industry circles, quite a bit has been made of the disappearance of the instrumental hit. After decades of Billboard toppers and songs that...
Portland's Maya Williams (ey/they/she) is a religious Black multiracial nonbinary suicide survivor and currently the seventh poet laureate of Portland, Maine. Their debut poetry collection, Judas & Suicide, is available in May from Game Over Books.

Beyond doubt: Maya Williams’ debut poetry collection is a force to be reckoned with

Do you read the obituaries? If you do, you know there’s really only one specific thing that people die of: cancer. We are often...
pickleball court

Game On: Searching for pickleball

I want to talk about pickleball's rise in Portland. I also want to state my firm stance that Portland needs more options for public...