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Best Sports Bars to Watch the Olympics
The Winter Olympics are always a sight to behold. The athleticism, the passion, the white trash-fueled kneecap clubbings of all-American sweethearts. “Eeh-why?! Eeh-why?!” Ahh, memories. Whether it’s...
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Not Your Grandma’s Dance Class
Story by Amanda Gervasi The thought of an organized dance class tends to make me cringe. Poised, slender figures floating the room with perfect grace is an image describing all that I am not:...
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Q&A with Adam Ayan of Gateway Mastering
Q & A with Adam Ayan: Grammy Award-winning mastering engineer from Portland’s prestigious Gateway Mastering and USM-Gorham professor. d: First off, what does a mastering engineer do? A: My job is...
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Talking Shop with Jason Spooner
Talking shop with Jason Spooner. This multi award-winning New England-based singer-songwriter has a list of accomplishments the length of the Maine coast and back. He’s been compared to the likes of...
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Stock Up on Shakespeare
Stock Up on Shakespeare Summer stock theater goes classical By Olivia Gunn the modified words of William Shakespeare: All of Maine’s a stage, and all Mainers are merely players. All right, maybe not so...
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United in Film
United in Film Possible Studio a place to ‘grow our work’ By Greg Tulonen Portland’s West End, there’s a new destination for filmmakers and film lovers—a place to work, a place to meet up, and a place...
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Dispatch Weekend Planner – July 3 – 6
Dispatch Weekend Planner – July 3 – 6 Molly McGill & Trevor Geiger // Dispatch Magazine 42nd Annual Bath Heritage Days Thursday, July 3 through Sunday, July 6 (All Day) Heritage Days is a four-day...
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Weekend Planner: July 10 – 13
Weekend Planner: July 10 – 13 Molly McGill // Dispatch Magazine DANCE: Prometheus Dance, at Bates Dance Festival Friday, July 11 & Saturday, July 12 (7:30 p.m.) Prometheus Dance, Boston’s...
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Dispatch Weekend Planner July 17 – 20
It’s going to be a beautiful weekend. Molly McGill and Trevor Geiger from Dispatch Magazine detail some of the events in our weekend planner. Arts Alive Thursday, July 17 (5 p.m. – 7 p.m.) Arts Alive...
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Band of Horses – Green Room Q&A
By Molly F. McGill Four albums, one acoustic album, a Grammy nomination, and a whole lot of blood, sweat, and tears later, the alt-country indie rock group Band of Horses has come stampeding into the...
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Friend Crush: A Conversation About Style with Trevor Papsadora & Stepmother
The first outfit Trevor Papsadora can remember falling in love with was a head-to-toe-leather, Ricky Martin–inspired ensemble. “My dad made me get rid of it,” he laments. Thankfully, that setback...
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Who is Kesho Wazo?
On Friday, July 8, Portland remembered the lives of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, two black men killed by police officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Falcon Heights, Minnesota, that week....
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Unwritten Rules of Taking a Cab
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Poking Holes in the Tilted Kilt
Historical evidence would suggest that the kilt, a rugged garment that originated in the Scottish Highlands and Isles, symbolizes many things to many people. For some, it conjures images of wrapping...
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Shaved Heads, Pasties, and Crotch Wine: A Portland Burlesque Roundtable
Portland’s burlesque scene dates back to the early 2000s, but the number of shows has increased exponentially in the last year. To get to the bottom of it, Dispatch hosted a roundtable discussion on...
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Friend Crush: Portland Style w/ Judicaelle & Douglas
Judicaelle Irakoze and Douglas Rutamu knew each other for years through mutual friends, but it wasn’t until they discovered they shared a mutual passion — fashion design — that they became friends...
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Exit Interview with Josh Moody, Owner of Styxx
Interview by Sam Hill Josh Moody moved to Portland for school in 2004 and found himself working behind the bar at Styxx. The club quickly became much more than a job and he felt like he had found a...
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Friend Crush: Portland Style w/ John and Kazeem
Friends, fashionites, and fellow entrepreneurs John Turner [Traps Eyewear] and Kazeem Lawal [Portland Trading Co.] both have presence in the Old Port. Hailing from Harpswell, Maine, and Lagos, Nigeria,...
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Exit Interview: Elise Pepple
Since she moved to Portland from rural Alaska in 2012, to attend Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, the artist, educator, and storyteller Elise Pepple has dug her hands in the local dirt. She...
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Community Organizing Requires Personal Work First
By Sultana Khan On November 16, Dispatch hosted a civic forum titled “How Do We Protect Our Community?” Attendance was high — about 500 folks filled the Urban Farm Fermentory and an adjacent...
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