For over a decade, California-based artist Michael Wells has been photographing and archiving objects left behind by migrants crossing remote areas of the Sonoran Desert while on their way to the U.S./Mexico border.
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You might have noticed coverage of the race for Maine's 1st Congressional District was missing from our Portland Phoenix Election Guide. Contrary to what we wrote in our print edition, two of the candidates —Democratic incumbent Chellie Pingree and Independent Marty Grohman — did eventually …
Voting Day is Tuesday, November 6 — and it’s a crucial one! (Unless you've already done the deed via early voting, in which case good for you.)
No shame at all to the people out there that want to spend this Halloween curled up on the couch binge-watching The Haunting of Hill House on Netflix (except holy shit that show is soooo good). But for the others who wanna don a disguise and roam the streets with mischievous intent, we’ve go…
No matter how this year’s gubernatorial election ends, third-party candidate and State Treasurer Terry Hayes isn’t afraid of the outcome. Every election has consequences, the Independent potential spoiler says, but if Republican Shawn Moody wins, life will go on.
"Now is the time of monsters,” the saying goes, and of course we’re talking about Damnationland, the homegrown showcase of short Maine-based horror films screening this weekend at the State Theatre and touring the less lit parts of Maine throughout the ghoul-thick month of October.
How will climate change affect marginalized communities?
It’s an appalling irony that among the myriad travesties committed against First Nations people, some of the most egregious and systematic were enacted against children by state child welfare agencies. Across the U.S. — including here in Maine — standardized government policy removed Native …
I tend to take baseball far too seriously for my own good. I usually view games with a cold, analytical eye informed by a lifetime spent reading about baseball history and a calculated knowledge of statistical probability. I often wish it was just an entertaining game of unlimited possibilit…
On Monday, September 24, Tarana Burke — the founder of the #MeToo movement — organized #BelieveSurvivors, a nationwide walkout to show support for survivors of sexual assault in the aftermath of recent allegations of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh from former sc…
Is the Maine contemporary dance scene deep enough to carry its own festival? Damn near!
We previewed the bands playing this weekend’s Waking Windows Festival of music, literary readings, comedy, and art.
Fall is invariably a period of both literal and figurative transition. As temperatures begin to swing downward and nightfall hits just a bit sooner with each passing calendar day, the halcyon glow of summer often fades into a gnawing urge to re-establish routine in preparation for the cold m…
The gay bar is dying. In Portland, with only one explicitly LGBTQ+ bar left in town (and many folks in the queer community getting sober), some may say it's already dead. Whether it's a temporary generational lull or permanent trend, one thing is for sure: queer space in Portland looks much …
Despite playing host to a food scene that’s become one of the city’s more prominent exports as of late, pizza has never been a strong point for Portland. Aside from quirky outliers a la Flatbread and Bonobo, area pie existed for years in a state of greasy, uninspired limbo until OTTO Pizza —…