Yes. Life’s Good Here. Unless You Don’t Have Off-Street Parking.

Riot Breaks Out at Muse Paintbar When Bachelorette Adds Her Own Details to Painting

Dig staffers join the Bollard, forming Country’s most unbearable Alt-Weekly

  The Phoenix can’t rise from the ashes if Busby won’t stop the burn.

Caribbean Investor Buys Sebago Lake, Renames Tobago Lake

Individual investor from Trinidad and Tobago acquires and renames lake, also plans first annual Limbo Festival to honor traditions of the lake’s new namesake.

Portland Food Co-Op Fields Protests of Disgruntled Former Fast Food Customers

They aren’t loving it: years after the doors were shuttered at 290 Congress Street, several die-hard McDonald’s Express customers protest the presence of the new community owned grocery store. “I refuse to accept that McD’s Express isn’t… Continue reading →

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Eliot Cutler Lands Head Line Cook Job at Governor’s

“I’ve always liked making pie and meatloaf. Now someone will actually pay me to do it. If only I qualified for the health plan,” says the two-time gubernatorial candidate.

Harvard’s Center for Health Decision Science Finds Portland’s Foodie Culture Actually Destroying Futures

“Our study shows that citizens of Portland are so brainwashed by the restaurant culture that they spend their entire income on eating out,” says the report’s lead scientist, “projections show that this can only lead… Continue reading →

Corporate Takeover: City Sold to Life Is Good, Inc.

Turns out the City’s newly branded motto, “Portland, Maine. Yes, Life’s Good Here” was merely a set-up to ease transition between municipal government and the new corporate leadership. The New England based t-shirt… Continue reading →

Portland Press Harold Buys the Portland Phoenix

The alternative arts and culture weekly to become subsidiary of Maine Tomorrow media group.