In 1974, Republicans joined Democrats in upholding the rule of law and constitutional checks and balances. Are they prepared to do so again?
January 2021
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Maine Observer: Education was never easy for parents
A writer looks back at the sacrifices her mother and father made to finish school.
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Jim Fossel: Maine Republicans should not budge on PPP tax break
There’s no reason to make small businesses pay any taxes on money they received from the federal government.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
New one-man play aims to dispel myths about the sexuality of the disabled
Ryan J. Haddad dials up the candor early on in “Hi, Are You Single?” The autobiographical one-man play, which begins streaming Monday on demand via D.C.’s Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, in association with Los Angeles’s Iama Theatre Company, opens with a phone-sex scene. A playwright and actor known in part for his recurring role on […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
Stanley Tucci, Colin Firth burn brilliantly, but with understatement, in ‘Supernova’
The film “Supernova” is a small and superficially tidy thing, notwithstanding the astronomical implications of its title, which augurs the sudden explosion of a star or – more metaphorically – some brilliant light, often heralding its extinguishment. It seems, at first, an odd allusion for a road-trip story that takes place largely inside a boxy […]
Posted inFood, Vegan Kitchen
A farm animal sanctuary in Brooks expands
Peace Ridge Sanctuary has grown by almost 250 acres, allowing it to expand its wildlife rehab area and build a new large animal barn.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
Art review: Dowling Walsh show represents the range of abstract expressionism
‘Into the Abstract’ runs through Feb. 27 at the Rockland gallery.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Bedside table: A terrific novel and a terrific memoir, both about life in Maine
This Mainer is reading, and enjoying, books by Maine literary royalty – Monica Wood and Richard Russo.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Deep Water: ‘Listening To John Coltrane With My Baby Daughter,’ by David Stankiewicz
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
The writer behind ‘Your Fat Friend’ on diets, BMI and the relentless advice of strangers
Aubrey Gordon hopes her new book, ‘What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat,’ encourages readers to think more deeply about how they treat fat people.