Subject: Maine

• UAW Knows Someone You Hate Worse Than Them

  December 4, 2008

• HE SEES A DARKNESS

  October 1, 2008

• THE SLUDGE REPORT

  February 4, 2009

• Arcos in Astoria: Portuguese Barbecue and Seafood

  April 1, 2008

• Jones's Electricity and Uggams's Warmth Wake Up a Snoozy Script

  April 12, 2005

• Where's the Party?

  June 13, 2006

• The Profit's Bodyguards

  November 4, 2003

• To the Lighthouse

  November 17, 1998

• Moderately Republican

  January 19, 1999

• Novel Approach

  May 11, 1999

• Little Women

  December 28, 1999

• Nation

  June 20, 2000

• Nation

  April 10, 2001

• Listings

  June 19, 2001

• Scenes From a Marriage

  November 20, 2001

• Saltwater Taffy

  February 5, 2002

• Working Vacations

  July 16, 2002

• Aw, Shucks

  October 1, 2002

• The Last Time

  February 4, 2003

• Two-Story 100-Year-Old Wooden House

  February 11, 2003

• Gender Is the Night

  April 15, 2003

• Racial tensions and feminist stirrings from Mali to Maine

  November 16, 2004

• Quick Hits

  Some guy's leg and foot on the subway, via twitpic. We love Mary Louise Parker as much as anybody, maybe more, but find it hard to credit her claim that she was "goaded" into a nude scene in an (upcoming!) episode of Weeds and is "bitter" about it. She's, like, naked in everything. Here is a practical demonstration (NSFW). Better pictures at -- my God what's happened to us? We're sentimental that we way, so we like the NY1 story about the Asian reggae musician who heads a band called Brown Ric

  May 18, 2009

• Sea (Urchin) of Love

  December 28, 2004

• Marriage Equality, State by State

  September 13, 2005

• Hunting and Gathering

  October 25, 2005

• Captain Crunch

  December 13, 2005

• CUM LAUDE(LY)

  January 14, 2009

• Fork in the Road Shacks Up

  So far, the critical word on Butcher Bay, a mid-Atlantic-style seafood "shack" has been pretty bad. In my mind, it's a mixed bag (the fried chicken was greasy, for one thing), but a worthwhile mixed bag.  For one thing, the lobster pot pie is mind-bendingly good--if you like Maine lobster, cream sauce and puff pastry this dish will make you happy. For another thing, the Chesapeake oysters and raw clams are beautiful, and the fried haddock in the fish and chips sports a craggy-crunchy, tota

  April 1, 2009

• Wintry Mix

  January 10, 2006

• North by Northeaster

  November 1, 2005

• Dog Run

  August 23, 2005

• NH Legislature Passes Gay Marriage Bill

  "Then he felt a kind of queerness come over him at having said what he'd said; though, naturally, being a New Hampshireman, he wouldn't take it back." -- Stephen Vincent Benet, "The Devil and Daniel Webster." The New Hampshire state senate just passed, by a vote of 13 to 11, HB436, a gay marriage bill -- one amended to afford specific protections to religious folks concerned that they will be made to get gay-married. The state house approved the bill last month, 186-179. The bill stipulates th

  April 29, 2009

• Gay Marriage Wins in Maine; D.C. Fights to Recognize It

  Maine's got gay marriage. Governor John Baldacci signed a marriage equality bill that passed the state legislature this morning. New England is kicking New York's ass. Massachusetts got the ball rolling. New Hampshire's lawmakers have passed a gay marriage law that waits on the governor. Vermont overrode their governor's veto to get their bill passed, and Connecticut's state supreme court struck down a ban. Get on the ball, Rhode Island! Adding to the general gayness, the D.C. council voted t

  May 6, 2009

• Under Review--Sietsema Gets Fishy at Sol-Mar; DiGregorio Goes Ramen-Crazy at ZuZu Ramen

  This week in the Voice, Our Man Sietsema gets his fish on at Sol-Mar, while Sarah DiGregorio follows the ramen craze to Brooklyn at ZuZu Ramen. Bruni enjoys some "lovely fish" at Fishtail by David Burke, but is most impressed by the cauliflower. [NY Times] Adam Platt has "expertly crisped" whole branzino and other lively entrees in an Austin Powers yacht-like setting at Harbour. [NY Magazine] Restaurant Girl loves the Maine mussels at "nautical-chic" Harbour, but wonders, "What's with all the

  May 6, 2009

• "Maine," by Michael Feingold and Jerry Herman

  (As is his wont, our theater critic Michael Feingold has written new lyrics to a show tune to honor the latest American state to get gay-married. Tune supplied in the Angela Lansbury 1983 revival footage above. Feel free to sing along! -- ed.) MAINE lyrics by Michael Feingold (with sincere apologies to Jerry Herman) You made a same-sex marriage legit, Maine! You told us we were legally fit, Maine! You said you won't be prejudicial, Read judicial sense into the law, You showed equality

  May 8, 2009

• AGELESS BEAUTY

  July 1, 2009

• Traces of Death Easier to Watch Than The Way We Get By

  July 15, 2009

• An Interview with Whit Stillman

  August 25, 2009

• Open & Closed: Say Hello to Travertine; Goodbye to (the Other) Tea Lounge

  Danae Cappelletto, a former restaurant manager in her native Australia, has opened Travertine in the space formerly occupied by Little Charlie's Clam House on Kenmare Street. The menu, by Manuel Trevino, is Mediterranean. [NY Times] Hotelier Andre Balazs has introduced The Boom Boom Room, the first in a series of upper-level venues in his Meatpacking District hotel, the Standard. The 18th floor lounge offers panoramic views of the city, and boasts two outdoor terraces. [The Feed] Luke Holden,

  October 2, 2009

• Today's The Day: Will Gays in Maine Lose Equal Rights?

  ​Today, the lovely state of Maine--where I've hung out with many a lesbian and gay man in various woodsy areas--puts gay marriage to a vote. The people will decide, as they did in California, if the gay right to marry should be squashed like the vows generally are in most straight marriages after a year or two.

  November 3, 2009

• Turnout High in Maine Gay Marriage Referendum

  Turnout is reported heavy in Maine, where voters are faced with a referendum on the marriage equality law passed last spring. ("No" on Question 1 means yes to keeping gay marriage.) State officials say voting is exceeding expectations, and over 100,000 absentee ballots have been filed. This is seen as encouraging news by many gay marriage supporters. Less sanguine are opponents, who are lashing out at "Maine homosexual activists" who "promote counterfeit (same-sex) 'marriage'," etc. "If cold w

  November 3, 2009

• Election 2009: Maine Gay Marriage Count May Take a While

  Here's something we didn't think about when we mentioned those 100,000 absentee ballots already collected in Maine's gay-marriage referendum: the population of Maine is about 1.3 million. So rather more than 10 percent of the electorate have already cast their ballots. (Maine voters need not give a reason for requesting to vote that way.) But these votes aren't counted till today. So given the close margin indicated in polls, and the late surge reported at the voting booths (leading to more pa

  November 3, 2009

• Gay Marriage Revoked in Maine

  ​Yahoos displeased by the results in NY-23 may take comfort that Maine appears to have rejected the marriage equality bill that was passed by its state legislature in May. For example, National Review's Thomas Peters: "My favorite part of last night's election coverage was watching Rachel Maddow's demeanor go from exuberant, to smug, to infuriated over the results of the marriage referendum in Maine.... let them never forget, but rather, let them Remember (the) Maine! Bully for them." Mic

  November 4, 2009

• Ray Lamontagne

  November 3, 2009

• Gov Adds Gay Marriage to Special Session Agenda

  As Maine doesn't go, so goes New York, maybe: Governor Paterson says that along with the pressing budget issues for which he called the special session of the legislature for Tuesday, he's also going to push the gay marriage bill, which he proposed in April but which got set aside as Albany pursued other pressing issues. Good luck. The state senate Democrats, never wholly cooperative with the unpopular Governor, are already saying they won't participate in his Monday joint address to the legisl

  November 5, 2009

• Will New York Get Gay Marriage?

  ​In the wake of the Maine horror, there's been some way more appealing news. Governor David Paterson is including marriage equality in the sweeping November 10 session he is calling for, bringing gay marriage before the State Senate for approval! Or at least he will if no one blocks it, as they have before. And if the topic is brought to the fabulous floor, will it pass with flying rainbow colors? No way, honey.

  November 6, 2009

• If Gay Marriage Passes, Won't the NY Masses Just Overturn It?

  ​Our e-mail box was flooded this morning with desperate pleas to call our state senator and demand that gay marriage come up for a vote during the special session of the New York state legislature called his week by Governor Paterson. But we wondered, just days after a legislative victory was overturned by voters in Maine, and a year after California voters did the same, can something like that happen here? If a vote is called on the gay marriage bill (looking likely, sometimes next we

  November 10, 2009

• Who Do We Have to Blow to Get Gay Marriage in New York?

  November 17, 2009

• The New Amsterdam Market Returns This Sunday, with Pie

  Cameron Nordholm/flickr​The New Amsterdam Market is back this Sunday, just in time for the pre-Thanksgiving frenzy.

  November 20, 2009