“All lesbians really want is to nest and partner.”
The three-piece Bully Mammoth have been one of Portland's more mercurial rock acts for years now, hurtling between noise, cathartic drone, fuzzed-out college rock, and weird freakouts weaving in and out of pop conventions. Amassing several years’ recording output, including last year’s ambit…
To hear W. Jo Moser tell the story of her career in photography is like listening to a love story. Moser has been photographing the LGBTQ community for over 30 years, and on October 25 will be presenting a retrospective of her work — the digital retrospective exhibition Going the Distance: L…
How will climate change affect marginalized communities?
It’s impossible to discuss our love of the New England Art Book Fair (which is intense) without indexing it proportionally to our hatred of the internet (which is depthless and ever-expanding). It’s true — the more time we spend on the web, the more incredible it is to see artists working th…
Described in a recent interview as a “leftist podcast whose hosts swear sometimes,” Chapo Trap House has seen an incredible groundswell of listenership since it began. Loosely analogous to a type of irreverent, absurdist political humor made popular by the likes of Jon Stewart, John Oliver a…
The art critic and intellectual Susan Sontag once wrote that her idea of a writer is "someone interested in everything."
Leroy, 73, sits in his wheelchair toward the back of a bustling crowd on a summer evening at Congress Square Park. He and his wife Beatrice live next door in Congress Square Plaza. When Friends of Congress Square Park came in search of volunteers three years ago, they didn't think twice.
This month, Maine College of Art graduate Tabitha Barnard shows an emerging artist exhibition at SPEEDWELL projects, the multimedia showroom on outer Forest Ave.
We live in a image-saturated culture. If you have a phone, you have a camera. Chances are you’ve posted an image on social media in the past 18 hours. As a cultural critic, I hope it was not your lunch or your feet. I mean, I’m fond of cats, too, but I have my own, I don’t need to see daily …
Somewhere along the way, David Cross got to be one of the most influential comedians in a generation. As in, somewhere along the way, he’s become a guy who’s been doing this in the public eye for nearly 25 years. That’s wild!
If you walked downtown over the last month, you’ve surely seen — and likely wondered about — the Maine Center for Electronic Music. It might have looked like anything from a thrilling dance club or studious vinyl library (depending on the hour) curiously tucked into a prominent, carpeted whi…
Andrea Gibson is as nervous about this interview as I am. One would probably not expect a spoken word poet who is currently on an international tour promoting their seventh album and their fourth book to be nervous about a phone interview with a twenty-something from Maine — but Gibson, havi…
The artist Sandra Erbacher’s current practice visually explores Edwin Black’s work of investigative journalism, IBM and The Holocaust. Published in 2001, Black’s book maps out the historical partnership between IBM and the Nazi Regime, including the sale and ongoing service of Hollreith punc…
Our Pheature Photog this week is Steffanie Alexander.
This week's Pheature Photog is Justine Johnson, whose photography does an incredible job of capturing relationships, expressions and personalities.