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Mod Night at Empire Dine and Dance, June 3

Speaking from experience collaborating with him on the decks, the litmus test that best gauges the success of any Ian Paige DJ night is how well Booker T and the MGs' "Green Onions" goes over.
Music seen
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | June 10, 2011

Theodore Treehouse are Closest to the Sun

Bryan Bruchman and Dylan Martin and Ian Paige and everyone else who's been raving about Theodore Treehouse's live set over the past year were completely and totally right.
Burn, baby, burn
By SAM PFEIFLE | December 04, 2010

Block Party celebrates, consumes the Arts District on Saturday

The first time SPACE Gallery closed off a chunk of Congress Street, in 2005, they filled it with sod grass and turned it into an urban lawn. The second, a year later, inflated plastic structures dotted the Arts District. This Saturday — in theme, in spi
Square roots
By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | September 10, 2010

We heart these people

We all know Portland is a busy, exciting place to live. It takes a lot of people's amazing energy to keep it going, though. Who's doing the moving and the shaking?
Meet Portland's most influential
By JEFF INGLIS | February 12, 2010

Local luminaries’ picks

I asked a bunch of people who really dig local music to help me make sure I wasn’t leaving any songs out when I was developing my list of the best 10 songs of the 2000s, but then I quickly realized that “best” is about as subjective as things come when y
A sample of other best songs of the 2000s
By SAM PFEIFLE | December 25, 2009

A mill grows in Biddeford

'We're responding every step of the way to our environment. And to each other.'
Six artists wax hyper-real at the North Dam Mill
By ANNIE LARMON | October 02, 2009

Book of Samuel, Vol. 3

It's so easy not to think about the music Samuel James makes much at all. Built from the very pillars of American music, it's easy to dismiss it as an homage, a throwback, a curiosity. And it is all those things, with James's ageless voice — he could b
For the ages, and For Rosa, Maeve and Noreen
By SAM PFEIFLE | August 21, 2009

Slideshow: Portland Museum of Art 2009 Biennial

For it’s 2009 Biennial, the Portland Museum of Art whittled down 970 applicants to just 17 Maine (or at least Maine-affiliated) artists.
The 2009 Portland Museum of Art Biennial, April 8 to June 7, 2009
By PHOENIX STAFF | May 01, 2009

Conversation piece

Leon Johnson explains his trans-historical-post-colonial-dinner-wait-what?!
Leon Johnson explains his trans-historical-post-colonial-dinner-wait-what?!
By IAN PAIGE | May 01, 2009

Growing pains

Although no one piece in this spartan biennial is lacking in value, the collective effect is one destined to get lost in the Rolodex.
The 2009 PMA Biennial steps awkwardly forward
By IAN PAIGE | April 10, 2009

State of the arts

In Portland, and around Southern Maine, developing trends hold promise for our changing, but still cantankerously distinct, artistic character to act as a new kind of cultural reflection.
Emerging trends and promising futures for Portland artists
By IAN PAIGE | April 03, 2009

Hanging in the balance

Septuagenarian Andre LaPorte may be a veteran artist but, relative to his long career, he is a new painter.
Andre LaPorte exhibits variation on the theme at Greenhut
By IAN PAIGE | March 11, 2009

Printing Portland

Local artists reclaim mass production
Local artists reclaim mass production
By IAN PAIGE | February 18, 2009

Slideshow: Backstage Pass at PMA

Loving obsessive groupie
A photographic story of music
By PHOENIX STAFF | January 26, 2009

Review: ''Backstage Pass'' at the PMA

The half-century chronology covered by the Portland Museum of Art's latest exhibition, "Backstage Pass," reveals in photographic portraiture a story of music that is a euphemism for the ultimate creative act. Like sex, rock-and-roll is about surrender
Nothing new — and that's not a bad thing
By IAN PAIGE | January 21, 2009

One city, many angles

Artists capture the city for Greenhut's fourth biennial Portland Show
Artists capture the city for Greenhut's fourth biennial Portland Show
By IAN PAIGE | December 17, 2008

First Friday frenzy

Reflecting on an art-fueled weekend
Reflecting on an art-fueled weekend
By IAN PAIGE | December 10, 2008

Bam Bam

There are a few people in town who really know how to throw a party. Three of them (Jen Batchelor and Phoenix scribes Chris Gray and Ian Paige) amalgamated their powers on Saturday at Bubba's for a party to remember.
Music seen at Bubba's Sulky Lounge, November 29
By CHAD CHAMBERLAIN | December 03, 2008

Mind architect

Viewing Sara Crall's new show, "observations of," at Franklin Street Art Space in Biddeford is like listening to a musician interpret her own song.
Sara Crall's expert hand is on show at Franklin Street Art Space
By IAN PAIGE | November 19, 2008

It's okay to draw with markers

Chad Verrill, 34, makes drawings and prints at his home in Portland, where he's lived since he arrived in 1992 for a short-lived stint at the Portland School of Art.
An interview with Chad Verrill of CVIC works
By IAN PAIGE | November 12, 2008

Letters to the Portland editor: October 31, 2008

We have several great colleges and universities in this area graduating hundreds of highly educated professionals each year. However, we continuously fail to retain these talented young people because we don’t have jobs to keep them here.
Get creative
By | October 29, 2008

No man is an island

When Allan Kaprow presented his first performance at New York’s Reuben Gallery in 1959, the conception for the first Happening was tightly scripted.
“The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.” _Allan Kaprow
By IAN PAIGE | October 22, 2008

On what ground?

The experience gap between Greg Parker and Noa Warren makes their joint show at the June Fitzpatrick Gallery at the Maine College of Art all the more exciting.
Greg Parker and Noa Warren at June Fitzpatrick
By IAN PAIGE | October 16, 2008

When ordinary is extraordinary

Biddeford artist Gil Corral seems to be one of those people whose surreality often seemS detached from everyday matters, but who can at times distill that perspective to simple truth.
Gil Corral’s questions and answers in Biddeford
By IAN PAIGE | September 25, 2008

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