PORTLAND

The gulf of Maine
Senator Collins votes the Bush line 77 percent of the time; her challenger, Representative Allen, weighs in at 18 percent. Will these numbers decide November’s election? - BY JEFF INGLIS

Welcome to the PalinDome

One-stop shopping for humor mavericks

By: | October 09, 2008

Recession survival tips

Big Fat Whale

By: BRIAN MCFADDEN | October 09, 2008

Classic retro

The Back Bay Grill offers stability
Opened 20 years ago on an odd bayside corner, the Back Bay Grill looks seasoned rather than old.

By: BRIAN DUFF | October 09, 2008

Time of Rivers returns

Round two of the (mostly) solo guitar, (mostly) unplugged destination festival
The surprising success of the Time of Rivers Festival can be credited both to shrewd marketing and Portland’s increasingly robust presence in a niche music scene.

By: CHRISTOPHER GRAY | October 09, 2008

Running onward

Shepard’s Fool For Love at USM
Two doomed lovers meet — not for the first and surely not for the last time — in Sam Shepard’s dark romance of love and the American West, Fool For Love.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | October 09, 2008

A shadow world

Lauren Fensterstock’s unsettling installation
The centerpiece of Lauren Fensterstock’s installation at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art is what appears to be a large black pool with giant lily pads.

By: KEN GREENLEAF | October 09, 2008

Confusatron + Ricky Boy Floyd

Music seen at Geno's, October 2, 2008
For the last six years, the maniacal power trio of Confusatron have been delighting and baffling audiences throughout New England.

By: DAN CLARK | October 09, 2008

Portland scene report: October 10, 2008

Sibilance starts now
Now everyone’s interested in the guy who played with Swell Season.

By: PORTLAND PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF | October 09, 2008

More bad news for the Mets

Sports blotter: "Very bad times" edition
Look, it just isn’t seemly for us non–New Yorkers to laugh too much about the continued suckdom of the New York Mets, specifically their bullpen.

By: MATT TAIBBI | October 09, 2008

A mighty bad man

Balls, pucks, and monster trucks
October 3, 1995, brought my worst experience at the University of Memphis.

By: RICK WORMWOOD | October 09, 2008

Illusion of progress

Politics and other mistakes
As the world teetered on the brink of another Great Depression, I was comforted by the knowledge that if civilization collapsed, I’d still have quality health care.

By: AL DIAMON | October 09, 2008

Pillars of Capitalism

Hoopleville

By: DAVID KISH | October 09, 2008

Mad Horse starts new midweek theater series

Darkness falls early
This month, Mad Horse Theater Company offers the inaugural installment of a new way to savor theater: in an array of morsels, with no waiting until the weekend.

By: MEGAN GRUMBLING | October 09, 2008

PACTS priorities are a green-transport victory

Reality-based community
Portland Area Comprehensive Transportation Committee showed that Southern Maine’s transportation priorities are rooted in our current economic conditions.

By: DEIRDRE FULTON | October 09, 2008

Letters to the Portland Editor, October 10, 2008

Props on connecting the dots
If I could type my applause, I would. Your last two issues, specifically the cover articles, were superb.

By: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR | October 09, 2008

Hoover? Damn!

George W. Bush’s failures may have set off a tectonic shift in US presidential politics, commencing a Democratic Party reign
It doesn't matter how many negative ads are broadcast or how many moose are slain on the tundra, candidates and their actions don't transform our politics nearly as much as outside events and circumstances do.

By: STEVEN STARK | October 09, 2008