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Maine Women’s Fund awardees are building a new world
Change-makers in our midst - BY DEIRDRE FULTON

PMA show highlights MoMA’s influence

Defining the canon
It's a peculiarly American irony that the same man who basically invented the advertising model for the business of broadcasting radio and later television would have amassed a significant collection of modernist art.

By: KEN GREENLEAF | May 16, 2013

Watch your backs, useless people

Poll numbers
Poll numbers

By: JEFF INGLIS | May 16, 2013

Immigration by the numbers

One Cent's Worth
After many false starts, a convergence of public sentiment and political will has sped the country to the brink of comprehensive immigration reform. In purely economic terms, it's a no-brainer — one of those rare instances where a moral imperative neatly aligns with our national self-interest.

By: MARC MEWSHAW | May 16, 2013

Change for the better

Politics + other mistakes
The trouble with tax reform is that almost everybody not named Warren Buffett believes it should result in their personal tax bill going down.

By: AL DIAMON | May 16, 2013

Blue Rooster goes high-end informal

Park it here
If you want to know what making a food truck into an actual restaurant will be like, check out the new Blue Rooster Food Company

By: BRIAN DUFF | May 16, 2013

At the drugstore

Wax tablet
An incredible crop of metal, crust punk, doom, and otherwise heavy bands turn up on a nasty new comp out of Boston titled SealbeardS, named after a DIY venue that was shut down last fall

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | May 16, 2013

Filling up with Putnam Smith

Kitchen, Love, and Emily Dickinson
Putnam Smith wishes he could trade places with Emily Dickinson.

By: SAM PFEIFLE | May 16, 2013

Union comments

Letters
The State Theatre and a CWA member respond to recent coverage of unions.

By: LETTERS TO THE PORTLAND EDITOR | May 16, 2013

Union battles continue

Organized labor
An update on the state employees' union's dispute with the governor, plus union organizers' plans for medical-marijuana workers.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | May 16, 2013

Laptop program change sets schools back 10 years

Learning works
The webinar started with a five-minute effort to ensure the screen-and-audio sharing technology was actually working, punctuated by uncertainty about which representatives of which companies would be making remarks. Not an auspicious start.

By: JEFF INGLIS | May 09, 2013

Maine’s environmental movement reinvents itself for a new era of challenges

Blooming Activists
Maine's cherished environment may be threatened as never before by the gargantuan forces of economic globalization. In reaction, the state's environmental movement is coalescing into a force stronger than ever. There are new players in the game — including Occupy — augmenting the old guard

By: LANCE TAPLEY | May 10, 2013

Tricky Britches are in Good Company

Don’t call it a throwback
Tricky Britches lean pretty heavily toward the old-timey end of the spectrum, with a deep and abiding respect for the body of American stringband work, manifesting itself in original songs that are instantly familiar.

By: SAM PFEIFLE | May 10, 2013

Andy Verzosa’s re-thinking at Aucocisco

Changing parameters
Owner and director Andres Verzosa is showing 13 three-day two-person shows this season. Verzosa is perfectly aware of the disappearance of hierarchy and authority that I would maintain is not only taking place in the art world, but has already happened in art criticism and publishing.

By: BRITTA KONAU | May 09, 2013