PORTLAND

Review: Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
Brad Peyton's sequel - BY PETER KEOUGH

A weekend in Maine's North Woods teaches lessons beyond survival

Woman versus Wild
Tim Smith doesn't think the apocalypse is coming. He's not into high-tech gadgets or high-drama, made-for-TV survival situations.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | February 10, 2012

Tanja Hollander takes Facebook to the PMA

Friend quest
If you've been buzzing about "Are You Really My Friend?" the new installation of Facebook-inspired portraits by local photographer and Bakery Photo Collective founder Tanja Alexia Hollander, you're not alone.

By: NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | February 08, 2012

Female poets step up to the mic

Could be verse
While down in Cambridge last August with a team of Portland poets for the semi-finals of the National Poetry Slam, Tricia Henley Pryce says, she never saw more than one woman up on stage at a time.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | February 08, 2012

As encampment fades, protest shifts back to core issues

Occupy Transition
Even as Portland city officials continue to pressure OccupyMaine to leave Lincoln Park, they have done the Occupation a great favor, perhaps unintentionally.

By: JEFF INGLIS | February 08, 2012

Mad Horse’s Becky Shaw peers behind the love curtain

The one who knew too much
Three months after her father's death, the two people closest to thirty-something Suzanna (Elizabeth Chambers) don't have a lot of patience for her grief, which has her reduced to a weeping mess watching bad TV under a blanket.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | February 08, 2012

For Steve Jones, It's Different Every Day

Life on a barstool
For a guy whom just about every true Maine roots fan knows on sight (and by the first five notes or so of a guitar solo), Steve Jones sure is a chameleon.

By: SAM PFEIFLE | February 08, 2012

Learning to make a Bosnian Serb’s meat pie

From cleaning to cooking
Finding a cooking lesson with an immigrant is like love. It comes when I least expect it.

By: LINDSAY STERLING | February 08, 2012

Hymns heard

Wax Tablet
Comments from the Super Bowl (well, the printable ones): Is that Regis Philbin? Is that John Stamos? Is that Deion Sanders? Is that Jerry Seinfeld? Is that . . . SPOSE?

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | February 08, 2012

Building the perfect beast

America Elects
There are a few acceptable reasons for keeping your identity a secret.

By: AL DIAMON | February 08, 2012

Another way to run elections

Letters to the Portland Phoenix editor, February 10, 2012
Mainers now have the opportunity to participate in the first-ever national online primary that is open to everyone.

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX LETTERS | February 08, 2012

Will the next Keystone fight happen in New England?

Dirty business
We may have narrowly avoided Keystone XL (for now), but local environmental activists say that Maine and New England are not safe from "the dirtiest oil on earth," with a huge Canadian oil company seeking other routes to pump crude oil out of Alberta.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | February 08, 2012