Julia Bluhm wrote the petition that went online at Change.org on April 19, and it garnered more than 7,000 signatures by Monday.
Ray Routhier
Staff Writer
Ray Routhier has written about pop culture, movies, TV, music and lifestyle trends for the Portland Press Herald since 1993. He is continually fascinated with stories that show the unique character of Maine’s people and places. He’s written about why so many businesses use the made-up word “Mainely” in their names, how you can trace Portland’s history through its various smells and why Mainers lament the loss of Portland-made B&M baked beans. He’s interviewed a wide variety of filmmakers, actors, musicians and authors, including Patrick Dempsey, Tony Shalhoub, Richard Russo, Tess Gerritsen, Tony Bennett, Anna Kendrick, and Stephen King. His passions, besides writing, include baseball history, old movies and “Jeopardy!” A native of Manchester, New Hampshire, he graduated with a degree in political science from the University of New Hampshire. He lives in South Portland with his wife and two children.
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Open House: Morning Glory
A Munjoy Hill triple-decker provides the setting, space and character that attracts two architects who now call it home.
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Off Beat: Oddly intriguing
Maine marks Obscura Day with a lecture on the so-called ‘Dover Demon’ at the Cryptozoology Museum in Portland.
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Queen: Rock ‘n’ roll royalty
What has made the band and its music so popular for so long? The songs, the smarts and the showmanship.
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Heavy metal acts to play Scarborough
Oxxfest, a day-long music festival featuring heavy metal bands, is the first announced show for the new “Music at the Track” concert series at Scarborough Downs.
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Tag, you’re it: New book ’40 Classic Lawn Games’ calls readers to action
Former Maine residents Paul Tukey and Victoria Rowell discuss their new book, shopping malls and capture the flag.
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Mainers reflect on loss of music pioneer Levon Helm, 71
Bob Ludwig, who mastered albums for The Band, says his drumming and vocals ‘were like nobody else.’
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Maine music figures pay tribute to Helm
Levon Helm, drummer and singer for The Band, died Thursday afternoon in New York.
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Off Beat: Celebrating a titan of print media
You’d imagine filmmakers would want their lead characters to be complex, layered — nuanced, even. Given that criteria, maybe the Linotype machine is not such a strange film subject as it appears to be at first glance. The Linotype, after all, revolutionized the printing of newspapers and magazines beginning in the late 1800s. It’s complex […]
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Record Store Day
The annual celebration of local record stores – dreamed up by Maine’s own Chris Brown of Bull Moose – is sounding really cool.