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Maine Cannabis Film Festival explores battles for medical pot across the globe
Next month, Mainers will vote on whether to legalize recreational marijuana for adults over the age of 21. The state legalized medical marijuana in 1999, but since then, several other ballot measures...
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'Powered by Girl' community event inaugurates Maine Girls' Academy
The Maine Girls' Academy held its first community evening last week, gathering together educators and activists. The discussion proposed practical ways girls could get involved to change the ways they...
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Home on the Grange: Nirvana bassist gets political vibes from community...
It’s the 25th anniversary of “Nevermind,” the seminal Nirvana album that pushed grunge music into the mainstream. The band’s bassist Krist Novoselic, of Washington state, is touring the northeast,...
View ArticleNo mystery about Maine's beer craze: Cone offers paean to the 'old guys'
Maine author Kate Cone is climbing on the Brew Bus to tout her new book and join fellow travelers in tasting a wide variety of the area’s best beer. It’s been two decades since Cone penned her first...
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Scott Nash opens "Picture This," an illustration exhibit and workshop open to...
A new nonprofit in Portland wants to make learning the illustrative arts more affordable and available to a wider audience, so it’s setting up shop at the Portland Public Library. Scott Nash, director...
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Heavyweight champ Larry Holmes hits town, talks Trump
Larry Holmes, the former heavyweight champion of the world from 1978 to 1983, was ringside for boxing at the Portland Expo last weekend — and he didn't pull any punches in a pre-event interview where...
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New exhibit of dinosaur bones, dung, art and animatronics educate (and...
A new dinosaur exhibit at the Portland Science Center combines childhood wonders with an art show for the grown-ups. Dinosaurs Unearthed has enough life-sized animatronic dinosaurs, skeletons, and...
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Newly opened Mini Mogadishu offers authentic Somali cuisine
Somalis in the greater Portland area can get a taste of home at Mini Mogadishu, the new Forest Avenue restaurant that opened Saturday. It’s owned and operated by Nimo and Halimo Mohamud, spiritual...
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Members of Jaw Gems reflect on the success of their latest album, Heatweaver
Get in shape for New Year’s Eve by grooving to local neolegends Jaw Gems, who open for Lettuce and Tauk at the State Theatre on December 30, a funky all-ages affair. We caught up with Andrew Scherzer,...
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The Mallett Brothers will end a busy year at PHOME
Coming off a whirlwind tour of the United States this past year and playing as many as 190 shows, the Mallett Brothers say it will be “cool to cap it off at home,” on New Year’s Eve at the Portland...
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Dave Gutter shares his year's high moments
Rustic Overtones open for Matisyahu at the State Theatre on New Year’s Eve in an all-ages show. For Dave Gutter, the band’s frontman, it has been a year of collaboration and fruition for projects that...
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Builder of the House release a gender-bending music video ahead of their...
Local folk-pop duo Builder of the House is moving to the big time. Robert Cimitile (acoustic guitar, vocals) and Elliot Heeschen (drums and electric guitar) are set to release Ornaments, their first...
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Forget about politics at the Wicked Good, Halfway Decent Un'naugural Ball
What better way to celebrate the inauguration than to skip it altogether and spend the evening laughing, dancing and raising money for a great cause? The Mayo Street Arts Center is hosting the Wicked...
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Scott Cairns on poetry, politics, and the possibility of peace
Scott Cairns was born in Tacoma, Washington. He earned a BA from Western Washington University, an MA from Hollins College, an MFA from Bowling Green State University, and a PhD from the University of...
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The Ghosts of Johnson City revisits America's dark history with The Devil's Gold
Portland's Ghosts of Johnson City romp through town to kick off their new album, The Devil’s Gold, an epic collection of 15 songs that celebrates the near-forgotten lives of classic American...
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Bridging gaps through music with the Portland Culture Exchange
Protesters gathered on Monument Square Friday night, with sign-holders chanting to passing cars and each other that “Hey Ho! Donald Trump has got to go.” The woman on the bullhorn implored art walkers...
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"Protecting the environment is not a partisan issue" Why Mainers resist...
Scott Pruitt was confirmed twice last week. First as the new head of the Environmental Protection Agency. The second confirmation was of his suspected ties to oil, gas, and coal companies after...
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WHAT IS A CRIMINAL? The intersection of racial justice and policing in Portland
Jean Valjean is hungry so he steals a loaf of bread. He cannot work and his family is starving, so he commits this necessary act. But Javert, the local police official, considers it a threat to society...
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Have Fingers, Will Travel
While much of Maine was hunkering down and getting ready for another big snowfall, a few lucky ones made the trek to Mayo Street Arts on March 12 to get schooled in a guitar lesson that blends East and...
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Music Matters: Marcia Butler's Memoir The Skin Above My Knee at Print
One would think all childhood discoveries are the joyous sort, filling the young ones with wide-eyed wonder and doting parents with pride and love. But the rite of passage Marcia Butler describes in...
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