February 2008 - Posts

February 28, 2008

Maine Sneezes campaign
By Deirdre Fulton

As someone who's only just starting to recover from a week of consumptive coughing, and whose office currently sounds like "a TB ward" (the words of my editor), I am sympathetic to the statewide LD1454 campaign, promoting the Paid Sick Days Bill.

I don't know what I would have done if staying home last week would have meant either: a) being fired, or b) not being able to pay my rent.

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February 28, 2008

Perfect Woman winner!
By Deirdre Fulton
The people have spoken, and Delia W. Oman, whose Perfect Woman Project I wrote about a couple weeks ago, has her work cut out for her.

"The winner...has been contacted and agreed to participate," Delia tells me in an email. "This week, I began the process of deconstructing what he's requested. On Friday, I will begin to construct my new identity.

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February 27, 2008

Kennebunkport selectmen will take up Bush indictment tomorrow
By Deirdre Fulton
We just received word that the Kennebunkport selectmen will take up Laurie Dobson's writ of indictment -- which calls on local police to arrest President George W. Bush and Veep Dick Cheney if they come to town -- tomorrow night. It's earlier than Dobson expected; she says they must want to "tamp down" the issue as quickly as possible.

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February 27, 2008

Silencing dissent
By Jeff Inglis
The bandwidth limits of a hearing room in Boston were stressed to the breaking point Monday, bought up by a large corporation, with the intended side effect that the voice of the people was silenced. In a terrible twist of irony, this was exactly the problem those silenced people wanted to complain about - net neutrality.

Some Mainers were among those shut out of the Federal Communications Commission hearing.

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February 27, 2008

Black Mountain + Bon Iver
By Christopher Gray
SPACE Gallery, February 25

(Note: pic not from this show.)
What better opener for a revivalist stoner rock band than a... lesser-known, sensitive, atmospheric singer-songwriter act for post-adolescent couples to canoodle to? This is the inauspicious position Black Mountain places Justin Vernon and his band, Bon Iver, in every night.

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February 26, 2008

FREE TRADE isn't free
By Jeff Inglis
At last Thursday's public hearing of the Maine Citizen Trade Policy Commission, the commission heard a lot of people give their thoughts on free trade in general as well as more specifically about a free-trade proposal with Colombia, demanded by the president in his State of the Union address last month. (You remember, the one in which he told Congress - the elected representatives of a country facing more national debt and more consumer debt than ever before in our history, a country trying to pay for two wars in the Middle East and the one at home against non-rich people, and a country hated around the world - that our union would "remain strong."

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February 26, 2008

Local House race heats up
By Deirdre Fulton
So far, four candidates have announced their intent to run for the state House seat currently occupied by Representative Anne Rand, a Democrat (who plans on running for state senate). The district encompasses Munjoy Hill, the Old Port, and part of the West End.

The candidates are:

Munjoy Hill activist Ed Democracy, who is running as a Democrat.

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February 22, 2008

Arresting the President
By Jeff Inglis
Laurie Dobson of Kennebunkport, an Independent candidate for the US Senate, on Tuesday will ask the selectmen of Kennebunkport to issue arrest warrants for President George W. Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney. Dobson, who supports efforts to impeach both men in connection with lies told in the run-up to the Iraq War and violating Constitutional protections for American citizens, says that since Congress won't act, private citizens need to.

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February 20, 2008

In this week's Phoenix, plus odds and ends
By Deirdre Fulton
-- Aside from all the new articles, can you discern a difference between this week's print version of the Phoenix and last week's?

-- Also, in This Just In, I take a tour of the new art gallery / tattoo shop in the Bull Moose-Videoport complex (not online yet), as well as the brain of the guy who runs it:

-- In other news, mark your calendars for tomorrow evening's Peninsula Transit Study public forum, which will take place at 7 p.

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February 19, 2008

Fashionable rubbers
By Deirdre Fulton
This Thursday marks the last day of National Condom Week (it started on V-Day). To celebrate, and to promote a new condom brand "designed to encourage women to feel more comfortable about carrying and buying condoms," several Planned Parenthood "condom fairies" will be distributing their wares at Old Port bars. Look for them at Bull Feeney's, the Old Port Tavern, Amigos, the White Heart, Brian Boru, and ForePlay (even though it's ladies night, Margaritas said no).

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February 18, 2008

Whiskey Town, USA?
By Jeff Inglis
For reasons we're still unclear on - not that we're arguing - the Bushmills Irish Whiskey company has named Portland (yes, this one) one of three finalists in a nationwide search for a "Twin City" for the 1300-person town of Bushmills, on the Antrim coast of Northern Ireland.

See, it's the 400th anniversary of the granting of Bushmills's license to distill whiskey (perhaps granted on April 20, 1608), and the distillers have sobered up long enough to think of others' interest in the water of life

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February 15, 2008

WCYY moves
By Jeff Inglis
WCYY has moved. Not far, but some. They made a video of it, featuring some of the local folks you can hear. If you haven't seen their faces, it's fun. If you have, you can confirm they're crazier than you thought. We don't know what Rob or Robin really do there - and it appears that the 'CYYers don't either!

Take a look:

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February 13, 2008

Yes, please
By Deirdre Fulton
On days like today, when I wake up late and my contacts feel weird and it takes me 20 minutes to dislodge my car from the snow and then I remember that it's garbage-pick-up day on the Hill so I have to run back inside to get the blue bag (which inevitably breaks as I try to close the plastic drawstring), and all this makes me extremely tardy, I could do with an extra day off.

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February 12, 2008

Chronicles of Julie
By Deirdre Fulton
I saw a post on Craigslist today looking for production assistants and crew members for a web-based TV show that will begin shooting in the area this spring. Intrigued, I dug up a bit more info.

Here's how the show's Web site describes the series, which it compares to both Weeds and The Sopranos:

"The Chronicles of Julie is a web-based T.

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February 11, 2008

CAUCUS RESULTS - Town by town
By Jeff Inglis
A very cool Google Maps mash-up of Maine's caucus results is being put together by a guy named Bryan. Check it out - you can zoom in and out, and click on markers for each town to see how they voted. (The color-coding is also useful in that regard, and supports the idea that Obama does far better than Clinton in caucus states.)

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