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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Question authority

Press Releases
Maine journalists appear to disbelieve their own eyes, decline to do their own research, and prefer to quote officials instead of relying on independent knowledge and experience.
By: JEFF INGLIS  |  February 08, 2012

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Review: Soul Calibur V

Soulless
It's time to make some new friends.
By: MADDY MYERS  |  February 07, 2012

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J the S | The Last Days

Same Plate/Greater Good
J the S has been promising The Last Days since he went by Jake the Snake.
By: CHRIS FARAONE  |  February 07, 2012

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The Punch Brothers | Who's Feeling Young Now?

Nonesuch (2012)
For a group full of virtuosos, the Punch Brothers refuse to dole out prodigious string-murdering sessions.
By: ZETH LUNDY  |  February 07, 2012

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Ital | Hive Mind

Planet Mu
If there was a broken-record knock against electronic music in the last decade, it's that it all sounded the same.
By: MICHAEL C. WALSH  |  February 07, 2012

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Tennis | Young & Old

Fat Possum (2012)
Denver's Tennis, the husband/wife duo of Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley, are back with another slab of dreamy, feather-light pop.
By: RYAN REED  |  February 07, 2012

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Die Antwoord | Ten$ion

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Moreso than any "controversially-lipped" chanteuse (to borrow from one of Lana Del Rey's many observers), South African rap/rave/meme/satire/knuckleheads Die Antwoord beg the question:"Is that all there is?"
By: DAN WEISS  |  February 07, 2012

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Van Halen | A Different Kind of Truth

Interscope
Who would've thought Eddie Van Halen would still be innovative in his late 50s?
By: MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER  |  February 08, 2012
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BLOGS
Here's my question:
About Town  |  February 06, 2012 at 11:39 AM
On the burning of an American flag at #OccupyMaine this morning
February 06, 2012 at 9:05 AM
Google + Portland charter school = <3
February 03, 2012 at 3:22 PM
#OccupyMaine wins, begins packing up
February 02, 2012 at 4:05 PM
#OccupyMaine gets bad news from judge on its 4-month birthday
February 01, 2012 at 10:33 AM
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