PORTLAND

Opening-night jitters
The DNC’s primary colors - BY DAVID S. BERNSTEIN

What Obama must do

A new talent must wrestle with an old hand at political survival
For all the fawning press Barack Obama has received, the grace and favor with which he has been treated is nothing compared with the free ride McCain has enjoyed.

By: EDITORIAL | August 28, 2008

Dumped by text

Press Releases
He might not like this comparison, but Barack Obama has pulled a Britney.

By: JEFF INGLIS | August 27, 2008

Don’t look back

Alias returns to Portland for his latest Anticon release
Brendon Whitney — alias Alias — returned to Portland last year. He nestled in for a brutal Maine winter and recorded Resurgam, his first solo album in five years.

By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY | August 27, 2008

Maine: state of deception

How a budget surplus emerged from a back room
Surprise! When the 2008 fiscal year ended, on June 30, the state had a General Fund surplus of $56 million, so the shortfall in reality was considerably smaller than predicted — $134 million.

By: LANCE TAPLEY | August 27, 2008

100 things to do

Want to call yourself a true Portlander? Here's a checklist.
A checklist for true Portlanders.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | August 27, 2008

Now's the time

A primer on Opportunity Maine
Opportunity Maine is that rare type of public policy — one that enjoys true bipartisan support, and one that is expected to actually work.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | August 27, 2008

Oh, you like Melville?

Five books to land your first college mate
We cannot stress this enough. As much as no one cares about your laptop or iPhone, everyone sneaks a peek at what their peers and classmates are reading.

By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY | August 27, 2008

Privacy invasion

Politics and other mistakes
Let’s talk about Susan Collins’s sex life.

By: AL DIAMON | August 27, 2008

Animal collective

Strength in numbers in Brunswick
!nd!v!duals (a group comprised of Dom, Meers, Col!n, and Luke O) has overrun Brunswick’s Coleman Burke Gallery with an impressive display of giant beasts toting weapons.

By: IAN PAIGE | August 27, 2008

Laymoon is lemon

How a Lebanese woman makes tabouleh
El-taha’s house in Falmouth is populated with an easy Lebanese-American combo-culture.

By: LINDSAY STERLING | August 27, 2008

Out of this world

Benjamin Rosenbaum’s The Ant King
The worlds Rosenbaum creates feel less like a separate or “alternate” reality and more like a colorful, if complicated, extension of the one we know.

By: NINA MACLAUGHLIN | August 26, 2008

Tempus fugit

Braid goes in search of lost time
What if you could do things over again?

By: MITCH KRPATA | August 26, 2008

Letters to the Portland Editor, August 29, 2008

Collins backs torture
I am writing about torture around the world that I think is related to possible torture in Maine prisons.

By: LETTERS TO THE PORTLAND EDITOR | August 27, 2008

Facebooking the convention

News feed
We rounded up a few Maine luminaries who’ve alighted in the Mile High City for the Democratic National Convention, and translated their observations into Facebook speak.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | August 28, 2008

Portland scene report: August 29, 2008

Sibilance
The Wrecking (né Kingpin Wrecking Crew) released their album on a national scale August 19 on Universal’s Chosen label.

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | August 27, 2008

All mixed up

Brzowski holds an experimental Blooddrive
Brzowski’s Blooddrive Vol. 2: The Wreckage Between, a mixtape released earlier this summer, is full of all kinds of ear candy.

By: SAM PFEIFLE | August 27, 2008

Irish music night

Music seen at Blue, August 20, 2008
At 9 pm on Wednesday, two chairs and instrument cases sat empty on Blue’s postage-stamp stage.

By: TODD RICHARD | August 27, 2008

In proper style

Ogunquit Playhouse's My Fair Lady
The vocabulary, timbre, and tone of London flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Gail Bennett) are all — in the words of language-snob Professor Henry Higgins (Jefferson Mays) — “deliciously low.”

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | August 27, 2008