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No new age

Earthsound is for real
Yes, this Boston jazz trio incorporates the sounds of seals, tree frogs, and crickets. Yes, one of them is a working ecologist. Here's why you shouldn't hold that against them.
By JON GARELICK | September 25, 2009

No new age

Interview: Witch

Less weed, more speed
SONGS FOR THE DEAF AT AS220, COURTESY OF WITCH
By CHRIS CONTI | February 18, 2009

Drink up!

Santaland gets to the dark heart of Christmas
Santaland gets to the dark heart of Christmas
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | December 10, 2008

All Tomorrow’s Parties II

Edan at Kutshers Country Resort, Monticello, New York, September 19-21, 2008
At a festival like All Tomorrow’s Parties — a reminder of why so many of us entered the new millennium with tinnitus — an act like Edan might have seemed way out of place.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR | September 25, 2008

Animal house

Sara Gruen’s fictional menagerie
Each of Sara Gruen’s first three novels have had animal characters who were crucial to the book, but Water for Elephants has made the biggest splash.
By JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ | April 30, 2008

Banq Restaurant + Bar

Put your money where your mouth is
It’s hard to say we’re in a recession since bank buildings are being made into expensive restaurants.
By ROBERT NADEAU | March 26, 2008

Exhibitionist

A collection of fabulous imaginings
Alex Rose plunges readers down little three- or four-page rabbit holes, so we don’t know where reality leaves off and fantasy begins.
By BILL RODRIGUEZ | January 08, 2008

Twelve by 12

A dozen local filmmakers weave a musical, a serial-killer parody, and 10 other short movies into a cinematic patchwork quilt
It’s before noon on a Saturday and I’m at the Glass Slipper.
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | December 07, 2007

December 1, 2007

Saturday
Saturday
By SYMBOLINE DAI | November 28, 2007

Kingston Station

On board, but not yet there
In many ways, Kingston Station is an inferior version of Gaslight, which I reviewed in this space this past week.
By ROBERT NADEAU | November 28, 2007

Marital law

You will pay attention to your betrothed
Susan’s top bone of marital contention involves “Romance.”
By MEGAN GRUMBLING | November 14, 2007

Natural selections

Gorilla-made paintings at Franklin Park Zoo
The gorilla is a black blur, out of nowhere, barreling into the cage door — clang! — and then zooming off through the fake rocks and trees.
By GREG COOK | August 14, 2007

A doctor’s voice on MaineCare

By SAM PFEIFLE | July 25, 2007

Ho, ho, ho

Thoughts on watching the media culture that Don Imus helped spawn turn on the aging turkey
Unless you’ve been busy catching up on your Kierkegaard, you know that radio shock jock Don Imus is in a heap of trouble.
By EDITORIAL | April 11, 2007

See a new world

At the Maine Deaf Film Festival
There’s no need to fret over a potential communication breakdown at this year’s 5th Annual Maine Deaf Film Festival.
By KIRAH BROUILLETTE | March 14, 2007

Live + in person

By CHRIS THOMPSON | January 31, 2007

Able not to hear

Early American deaf painter John Brewster Jr. at the PMA
During the years 1796 to 1801, John Brewster Jr. painted the portraits of Colonel and Mrs. Thomas Cutts of Saco.
By CHRIS THOMPSON | January 31, 2007

Changing lives

The New England Conservatory’s Youth Philharmonic Orchestra visits Venezuela and Brazil
People who love the arts are fond of saying that art changes our lives. Slideshow: The New England Conservatory’s Youth Philharmonic Orchestra visits Venezuela and Brazil
By LLOYD SCHWARTZ | December 15, 2006

Ed Harris does Beethoven

An actor prepares
Ed Harris didn’t exactly have to be talked into the title role in director Agnieszka Holland’s Copying Beethoven .
By JON GARELICK | November 08, 2006

The Quiet

Idles in the dark
Deaf and mute since the age of seven, teenage foster kid Dot is more than just the loner/loser of her upscale Connecticut high school; she’s a sounding board for all who imagine that she can’t hear their secrets. Watch the trailer for The Quiet (QuickTime)
By JUSTINE ELIAS | August 30, 2006

Baxter School tries to ban Phoenix freelancer

Shooting the messenger
In response to our continued efforts to investigate conditions for students at the Governor Baxter School for the Deaf on Mackworth Island, the school has attempted to ban Portland Phoenix freelancer Rick Wormwood from the island, which is state-owned property, and part of which is a state park.
By JEFF INGLIS | August 17, 2006

Soundoff

Dana Dunn, "shop bitch" at tattoo shop Pins and Needles, weighs in on songs by Lovewhip and the Leftovers' new album Party Tonight .
Dana Dunn, "shop bitch" at tattoo shop Pins and Needles, weighs in on songs by Lovewhip and the Leftovers' new album Party Tonight .
By THE PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | July 13, 2006

Legendary restarts

Mission of Burma drop the second CD of their second career
If back in 2001 you’d told me or just about any other right-minded music fan that the legendary Mission of Burma would have two new studio albums to their name within five years, the polite response would have been, “Yeah, right.”
By JIM SULLIVAN | May 26, 2006

Letters to the Portland Editor, April 28, 2006

Readers fire back on meteorological misconceptions, our Deaf Film Festival coverage, and As Fast As's whereabouts
By LETTERS TO THE PORTLAND EDITOR | April 26, 2006

Seen + heard

The Maine Deaf Film Festival shows everyone a new world
These could easily be stories of alienation, of separation, of frustration, but they are not in the majority of the fare at the Maine Deaf Film Festival, to be held on Saturday, April 15, on USM’s Portland campus.
By JEFF INGLIS | April 12, 2006

Jamestown loses its erection

The big blow-up could be a spectacle for the ages
Jamestown Bridge is falling down, falling down. Jamestown Bridge is falling down, my fair lady!
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | April 12, 2006

Able bodies

JazzArtSigns’ complete audience
Could a deaf person really feel included in a jazz concert?
By JON GARELICK | February 27, 2006

Super graphics

“SPOTHUNTERS,” Ryan McGinness, and Christian Marclay
There must be a better word than “graffiti” to describe the site-specific, often text-embracing, street-smart art of the intrepid artists who use their environment as their canvas, plastering buildings, street signs, decaying walls, and skinny lamp posts with imagery by way of posters, stickers, markers, and spray paint.
By RANDI HOPKINS | February 22, 2006