PORTLAND

Excerpt: The School on Heart's Content Road
One week only: an exclusive excerpt from the acclaimed author's new novel - BY CAROLYN CHUTE

In an emergency

Hoopleville

By: DAVID KISH | November 14, 2008

Scorn rising already for Obama

Diverse city
While I’m still celebrating the election results — and don’t plan to stop until just before Thanksgiving — there is one sobering thing.

By: SHAY STEWART-BOULEY | November 12, 2008

Maine voters contradict themselves

Politics and other mistakes
Why did Maine voters give overwhelming approval to a tax-repeal referendum on Nov. 4, while simultaneously returning to office even more of the Democratic legislators who passed the unpopular tax in the first place?

By: AL DIAMON | November 12, 2008

Task force investigates offshore drilling in Maine

Energy in the drink
A new Ocean Energy Task Force, created by Governor John Baldacci last week, is charged in part with investigating the realities of drilling for oil and gas off the coast of Maine.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | November 12, 2008

Junebugs served here

What's cooking?
This summer, I ate a junebug. Actually, I ate three junebugs, prepared three different ways.

By: LEISCHEN STELTER | November 12, 2008

Covered In Bees is the bees knees

Music seen at Geno's, November 8
If any Portland band can claim their own cult of personality, it's Covered In Bees.

By: DAN CLARK | November 12, 2008

Make Net Neutraility a reality

What's the fuss over the Fairness Doctrine really about?
These are scary times for far-right conservatives.

By: ADAM REILLY | November 17, 2008

Review: A Lie of the Mind

Sam Shepard's A Lie of the Mind
A disturbing restlessness lies at the heart of Sam Shepard's rugged, dysfunctional American West. Men run off and then return, rebel and then cleave.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | November 12, 2008

Letters to the Portland Editor, November 14, 2008

Time to respect all people
Employees of our prisons and jails deserve better wages and in-depth training.

By: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR | November 12, 2008

Bridging the bi-partisan gap

Could an Obama administration mean an end to the red-state/blue-state divide?
It's worth reminding ourselves that when the Republicans are out of power, they go apeshit.

By: MIKE MILIARD | November 14, 2008

GOP loses its gusto

The GOP relied on talk radio to carry its water, but votes are worth more than ratings
Things do indeed look bad for their Grand Old Party. Actually, it's even worse than they think.

By: BY STEVEN STARK | November 14, 2008

Interview: Artist Chad Verrill

An interview with Chad Verrill of CVIC works
Chad Verrill, 34, makes drawings and prints at his home in Portland, where he's lived since he arrived in 1992 for a short-lived stint at the Portland School of Art.

By: IAN PAIGE | November 12, 2008

Contemporary classical music, worth a listen

Portsmouth's Navona Records releases an indie aesthetic for orchestra
At least one of the reasons many of us contemporary-music fans don't get into classical music is because it seems like no one wants us to listen to it.

By: SAM PFEIFLE | November 14, 2008

Don't miss Takács Quartet at UNH

Don't miss the Takács Quartet at UNH
One of the best string quartets in the world will be within a D-string's distance from Portland, come Monday night.

By: EMILY PARKHURST | November 12, 2008

Celebrating the holidays with a financial crunch

Holiday bottles that don't break the bank
How do we celebrate the holidays during a global financial fiasco?

By: TODD RICHARD | November 12, 2008

Gay rights: Time is on our side

Equal marriage rights suffers a setback, but there is hope. Plus, young voters.
The politics of division as practiced by lame-duck president George W. Bush at the connivance of his onetime Svengali Karl Rove are not dead.

By: EDITORIAL | November 17, 2008

Review: Quantum of Solace

Little Solace for Bond fans
Little Solace for Bond fans

By: PETER KEOUGH | November 14, 2008

Works from Karsh, Christenberry, and at the PRC

Photos from Yousuf Karsh, William Christenberry, and the PRC
In "Karsh 100: A Biography in Images," which is now up at the Museum of Fine Arts, his iconic shots of Winston Churchill, George Bernard Shaw, and Ernest Hemingway are defining portraits of the men in all their crusty manliness.

By: GREG COOK | November 14, 2008