News
‘Portland Rising,’ April 2021
The April 2021 episode of "Portland Rising," the monthly news, interview, and arts show from the Portland Phoenix, features Michael Kebede, the policy counsel...
Arts & Living
On Screen: A luminous, spiritual journey through the Pacific Northwest
Water flows and circles through the experimental documentary "malni – towards the ocean, towards the shore."
Filmmaker Sky Hopinka immerses us in long, reverent...
Pets in the ‘Window:’ All Custardpaws and Mr. Freezy want to...
If Portland Music Awards were still a thing (RIP, Best Music Poll), we’d have a new odds-on favorite for Best Pandemic Song.
Previously, the judges...
Viewpoint
Politics & Other Mistakes: Assorted anomalies
Maine’s lame excuse for spring has arrived. Time to clean the fungus out of my in-box.
Cinematic tax breaks
There are a few things on which...
The Universal Notebook: What does it mean to be non-essential?
As the worst of the pandemic quarantines and lockdowns begin to fade in the rearview mirror, millions of Americans must be asking themselves what...
Another Viewpoint: Maine’s approach to transgender athletes isn’t broken
The question of how transgender athletes should participate in sports is back in the news. A bill before the Maine Legislature, LD 926, would...
The Universal Notebook: The art of Beeple and ‘WAP’
Who’s the bigger fool? The guy who paid $69 million for a collaged work of 5,000 digital images? Or the guy who thinks a...
