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The secret world of USM’s Blade Society

Anything but ‘mundane’
It's a Tuesday night at the University of Southern Maine gym and Rob Tupper is leading a small group of fencing students through an exercise that looks like a cross between a line dance and an army drill.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | May 16, 2012

Getting ready for the Maine Comics Arts Festival

Bringing the page to life
If Superman had to give a State of the Comics address, it would be a pretty somber affair.

By: JOSH CHRISTIE | May 16, 2012

Kastaways and cut-ups

Safe at home with Maine's first all-mascot band
Watching the Kastaways practice, it quickly becomes clear that this band is all about the Clam. Sir Nigel the Rat might be the frontman and attention hog. Herman might be the lead-singer and actual hog. Spike Porcupine and Pete Puffin might even provide the band's true musicality.

By: SAM PFEIFLE | April 17, 2012

Photos: The Kastaways, Maine’s first all-mascot band

April 14, 2012
April 14, 2012

By: JUSTIN LUMIERE | April 17, 2012

With a Biddeford bout on the slate, MMA is here to stay

Fighting Maine
"I always knew Maine was full of fighting fans," Rumford state representative Matt Peterson says over lunch one day in March. "We're a fighting state, anyway."

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | April 04, 2012

Out in Maine: Spring 2012

Maine's GLBTQ Community & You
Maine's GLBTQ Community & You

By: PHOENIX STAFF | March 29, 2012

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

Spot the winterized queer!

Out in Maine
It's winter-time.

By: KATIE DIAMOND | December 14, 2011

You know you need it

If you’re reading this, you’re the 99 percent. Here’s what people should get you — and what you should get all your friends.
There are a lot of things that the 99 percent need.

By: JEFF INGLIS | December 07, 2011

Voices carry

Marty hears things that aren't there. Doctors say she's schizophrenic. A new movement says she's just human.
She can hear a baby crying. She searches the house, each cluttered room, the closets, under the bed. She checks the cupboards. She checks behind the shower curtains. There is no baby.

By: S.I. ROSENBAUM | October 21, 2011

On carpentry and college

Finding reward - and real learning - in the ivory tower
Age 30, I quit the Phoenix and ended up with a job as an apprentice to a carpenter. Sawing, chiseling, hammering, nail-gunning, tiling, sanding, slotting, framing, hauling, measuring, and sweeping are less obvious outcomes of an undergraduate career in the liberal arts. College, in strange and unexpected ways, prepared me for this sort of work. And in others, did not prepare me at all.

By: NINA MACLAUGHLIN | October 20, 2011

Portland Student Survival Guide 2011

How to get through your first year of college without panicking
How to get through your first year of college without panicking

By: PHOENIX STAFF | August 31, 2011

Can a single woman peacefully co-exist with schlubby bachelor roommates? Absolutely!

Bachelor pad
Wait — you're living with guys? Don't you know they're filthy creatures who don't clean up after themselves and leave a trail of Doritos everywhere they go?!

By: ASHLEY RIGAZIO | August 31, 2011

Don't sweat your major — you'll probably change your mind anyway

Throwing it all away
Chances are that two of you have no friggin' idea what you want to do with your lives, and the one of you who does will change his or her mind by age 25.

By: ASHLEY RIGAZIO | August 31, 2011

The biochemical issue

My on- and off-campus struggle with a cognitive curveball
No matter what you're struggling with, take the initiative and get help.

By: DEMETRIUS BURNS | August 31, 2011

Wizard Justice

Harry Potter fans are fighting the forces of evil. No, for real.
Andrew Slack is the co-founder and executive director of the Harry Potter Alliance (HPA), a globe-spanning nonprofit that draws parallels between the Potter books and real-world problems to get young people engaged in social justice.

By: STEVE MILLER | July 19, 2011

Best. Summer. Ever.

New England's Best Summer Guide
New England's Best Summer Guide

By: PHOENIX STAFF | June 16, 2011

Higher education, with joint enrollment

Summer school
When he's teaching pot-growing classes at places like the Ramada convention center in Saco, Ray Logan doesn't use actual marijuana plants for demonstration — he substitutes basil or pepper plants, whatever's available that day from High Tech Garden Supply.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | June 15, 2011

Wanna get away?

Maine retreats offer a chance to recharge and reconnect — with yourself, your partner, or the spiritual world
Believe it or not, there are some people who seek to "get" something out of their vacations beyond a sunburn and a souvenir mug.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | June 15, 2011

The secret history of the claw machine

Mark of the claw
You can find them next to the Kiddie Room at Funspot in Laconia, NH; in the dark depths of the Dream Machine Arcade in the Walpole Mall; and 24 hours a day in the Boston Bowl Game Room.

By: ALEC ERNEST | June 10, 2011

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