Tag Archives: Portland

Portland Police Department takes a cue from Ebenezer Scrooge

With the winter holiday season in full swing, the Portland Police Department took a cue from the likes of Ebenezer Scrooge last week when they had dozens of homeless encampments destroyed along Interstate 295. (Video from wgme.com) With the mild December weather that Maine has seen this year, many in Portland’s homeless community are choosing to […]

BuzzFeed ranks Anna Kendrick’s ‘life-changing’ tweets from 2015

Portland’s own Anna Kendrick is a world-famous Hollywood A-lister with an Oscar nomination on her impressive resume. She’s also a Twitter icon with over 5 million followers. Her Twitter prowess is so strong that BuzzFeed compiled a list called, “28 Life-Changing Things Anna Kendrick Tweeted in 2015,” and it’s hilarious. A dozen of the “life-changing” […]

The funniest Portland Thanksgiving story ever- ‘The Turkey Day Streaker’

On Thanksgiving Day, fifteen years ago in 2000, a teenaged Jon DiDonato stood shivering in an obscure corner of the west end of Fitzpatrick Stadium in Portland, under the shadow of Hadlock Field. Roughly ten thousand people had shown up for that year’s annual Thanksgiving Day football game between storied crosstown rivals Portland High and […]

Doctor from Maine uses ‘Magic’ to fulfill patient’s dying wish

“There’s a lot of things we can’t do in medicine, we can’t fix every problem,” said Dr. Elizabeth Mann, Fellow, Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Mount Sinai Health System in New York. “But we can provide some happiness to our patients.” Mann, a 2002 graduate of Deering High School in Portland, was recently featured on […]

Portland’s Old Port makes “best drinking neighborhoods in the country” list

Up against the likes of New York City’s Williamsburg, Chicago’s Logan Square, Miami’s South Beach, and New Orleans’ French Quarter neighborhoods, Portland’s Old Port has been ranked by Thrillist as one of the top 16 drinking spots in the country. Here’s what Thrillist had to say about the historic Old Port: “The Old Port with […]