With the pageant’s first transgender contestant and Bill Belichick’s girlfriend both competing this month, the event is drawing more attention than usual.
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Want to visit Maine’s children’s museum? You’ll need a kid with you | Column
Adults who want to visit the Children’s Museum & Theatre of Maine in Portland must be accompanied by a child or attend a special event, like the Imagination Ball happening next week.
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We know about Tesla, but what are Mainers saying with their Subarus?
As the connotations of driving a Tesla put the cars’ owners in a twist, we look at the state’s most popular vehicles and why we gravitate toward them.
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Feeling angry? A new rage room in Topsham is ready for you
The Wreck Room provides the bats and breakable objects. You bring the bitterness.
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Another weed shop opened on Forest Ave. This is how they all survive.
There are now six cannabis shops within a mile and a half of Forest Avenue, and their owners say there’s room for all of them.
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I won a membership to Portland’s only bottle club. Here’s what it’s like
For a monthly locker fee, members of Man & Oak get a convenient place to have a drink in town with plush furniture and a convivial atmosphere.
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Single-occupancy bathrooms have multiplied in Maine. What a relief.
Since the last big debate about trans rights, private, gender-neutral bathrooms have proliferated at restaurants, schools and workplaces.
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A furry convention is coming to Portland. Forget what you think.
Furries will be out and about downtown this weekend. Here’s what you might not know about them.
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Gone from Westbrook news racks, American Journal lives on in influence
The last issue of the weekly paper, launched in 1968 by legendary newspaperman Harry Foote, was printed in March.
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How are people who move to Portland making friends?
Some say it isn’t easy to do organically, but there are a lot of groups that are welcoming to newcomers.