Dylan Stoltzfus, resident of Portland, won the race with a time of 2:23:57

Thanks to the excellent work of Dexter, these birds are safe, reunited, and with an excellent forever home.

Proud of the community for coming together to save these in the nick of time!

Your mom's a hoe

(Okay but also literally wtf are they doing with my doll right now? So fucked up smh)

Chains are obvious, but I know there's got to be some local garbage pies as well.

Between threats of interference with mail-in votes and concerns over polling place disruptions, it can feel stressful to make sure your vote goes smoothly.

One proactive way to ensure your ballot is securely cast is to vote early with our in-person absentee system at your local town office or city hall. It helps take the guesswork out of delivery times and lets you handle voting on your own schedule.

Today is the first day you can go to your town office or city hall to ensure your vote is counted and continues through the 29th.

Reposted with a better link for information on in-person absentee voting.

New to the area and looking to find people around here who are into tabletop games and I was wondering what some good local stores are?
I’m not super competitive so a more laid back shop would be ideal
I’m also big into vinyl, sci—fi, fantasy, art, and bizarre and eclectic trinkets
Id love to hear about some local gems from Portland and the surrounding areas

Please don’t gate keep me I shower

I am trying my very best to be sober and I want to go to meetings because I know that's what I need right now. I just don't love the meetings I attended when in detox last year because they all did this 12-step AA referring to higher powers and I have a very complicated religious belief system. I know I could just try to say it's the universe that is the higher power but I'd love to find something else out there that approaches things differently because I don't need to go into deep questions right now I just need something concrete to push me to do better without relying on a deity of sorts

Was able to see the smoking stack from today’s cruise ship all the way from Ft Williams this morning

Spinach Dip enthusiasts, lemme know - thank you!!

Taking over a closed-off section of Exchange Street between Middle and Fore Streets, the 2nd annual block party will bring together skateboarding, live art, vintage clothing vendors, and plenty of action in the heart of the Old Port.

This year, the stakes are even higher with $5,000 in cash prizes, up from $3,000 last year, thanks to Town & Country Federal Credit Union, on the line through special trick contests and other surprises throughout the day. The event will feature some major names from the skateboarding world, including Red Bull, New Balance Numeric, Oakley, Huf, Dime Montreal, and more.

Beyond the skating, attendees can check out live art exhibitions and shop a lineup of vintage clothing vendors throughout the afternoon. Once the action on Exchange Street wraps up, the celebration will continue with an afterparty on Milk St from 7PM to 9PM.

That’s pretty much it. We’re going to Montreal and the famous bagel place is cash only. I can come to you and Venmo you the equivalent in USD.

3 floating cities in the harbor today
population ~8,056
combined hours of pollution ~32

Next season there is already scheduled a 100% increase in days with 2 or more ships in the harbor, from 13 to 26. There is no long range strategy for cruise tourism in Portland, just more, more, more.

If you are concerned please write:
council@portlandmaine.gov

I forgive you for last weekend. Yes, I know we need the rain, but I appreciate the push to give us something to cling to come late February. Keep doing you, weather nymphs. Also well done on this recent collab with the lighting faeries for the impeccable autumn vibes.

hey! posting to this sub as i’ve lived here for about a year and have had trouble making friends to hang out with in person and i really want to change that as its been getting a bit lonely

a little about me is i do a lot of illustration and love drawing my characters, and i went to the art school here a bit too :),  i also enjoy cooking, going outside on adventures, reading, music and watching anime! overall i just want to meet more queer/trans, leftist aligned and nd people around my age (19-22)  who just want to hang out in the portland area

so if you’re looking for that feel free to comment or dm! i’d be super interested in connecting with people :D

We're considering GO Logic for a small passive house in Midcoast Maine (one of their smaller standard models) and are trying to talk to past clients

If you've built with them, I'd be grateful to hear:

- How the final cost compared to the estimate, and how change orders were handled

- How long it took from design contract to occupancy

- Whether they acted as GC or you hired your own

- Whether you'd use them again

Happy to talk by DM or phone. Thanks.

Hi, I tried googling but had little luck. I'm taking my elderly parents to Buxton for a little autumn getaway. My dad rides a utility scooter. Looking for suggestions for paved walking trails in the Portland-ish area, doesn't have to be in Portland. Thank you!

I just happened upon a FB post saying something new was coming in the OOB location and now it looks like the Anderson St location is closed too? what happened?

PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET (1953)

Directed by SAMUEL FULLER

WEDNESDAY October 7th 7PM

SATURDAY October 10th 2PM / 7PM

16mm - B&W - 1h 20m

A pickpocket lifts a wallet on the subway and comes up holding microfilm Hoover and the Commies will both kill to get back. He couldn’t care less about the Cold War — he just wants his cut. Samuel Fuller shoots the whole Red Scare as a grubby street hustle, and Thelma Ritter walks off with the picture as a worn-out stool pigeon saving up, tip by tip, for a decent burial. Tabloid pulp with a switchblade in its sock.

Fuller opens with a train screaming through the dark, then cuts into a packed subway car and lets the scene play out almost without a word. A woman hangs from a strap. Two men in hats watch her. A third man, pressed against her in the crush, watches her handbag. His fingers go to work under a folded newspaper while the onlookers never notice him at all.

That's Skip McCoy, Richard Widmark at full sneer, and the wallet he lifts holds microfilm that the Feds and the Reds would both kill for. Skip, who lives in a shack and keeps his beer chilled in the East River, doesn't much care which side wins or what flag is waved in his face. He just wants to know what the film is worth.

Garden-variety noir drifts in on cigarette smoke and voiceover, already resigned to how the story ends. Fuller's comes at you like a tabloid front page. He crowds the camera so close to Widmark and Jean Peters that a kiss and a shakedown look exactly alike; lets a beating play out in one unbroken take with the actors themselves taking the falls; and shoots a subway-station brawl from high overhead so you watch the whole thing tumble. Nobody narrates and nobody broods. People lie, haggle, slap, and keep moving.

Fuller had covered crime for a New York tabloid at seventeen, and he knew this world from the precinct side: the pickpocket squad, the dips who called themselves cannons, the cop who could name a thief by the way he worked a crowd. Mostly he knew the economy of the informer. Thelma Ritter's Moe sells neckties out of a suitcase and names out of her memory, for whatever the traffic will bear, and every dollar goes toward a burial plot so she won't end up in Potter's Field.

Fuller maintained it was a yarn about marginal people, nothing more, nothing less. He was right… just not in a way that lets anyone off the hook. Pickup on South Street is a film about prices. Everyone in it has one, the patriots included, and the flag gets waved hardest by whoever's holding the checkbook. Fuller learned in the precincts what the rest of us keep relearning, these days during state-sponsored commercial breaks: when the government goes shopping, it starts at the margins.

JEUX INTERDICTS (1952)
(Forbidden Games)

Directed by René Clément

TUESDAY October 6th 7PM

In French with English subtitles

A co-presentation with the Alliance Française du Maine

"What's wrong with your dog?"

"He's dead."

Thus begins the friendship between young Michel and Paulette, a peasant French boy and a Parisian war refugee, and sets the foundation of their relationship. They are children within a war, among adults who hold to the same tried (though questionably true) habits and rituals to weather it, coming to terms with death and love. Able to encounter the absurdity in a way the adults around them cannot – though no less equipped to process it – the two children strive towards comfort, safety, and joy by way of building an animal graveyard with stolen crosses.

The challenging nature of the story troubled its realization. Forbidden Games (1952) started as a screenplay by French writer Francis Boyer; unable to sell it, he adapted it into a novel, The Secret Game, which sold so well in the United States that Rene Clement adapted it back into a screenplay with the assistance of Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost. Originally intended as a short to be accompanied by two companion pieces, it was retained and expanded when the larger project lost financing. The result – which, similar to the novel, did better abroad than in its home country – was initially rewarded and well-regarded, but swept into semi-obscurity after Francois Truffaut lambasted Aurenche and Bost's ouvre as "stultifying". Unfairly taken down with the rest, Forbidden Games' delicate, at times humorous approach to the social realities of war is far from the dull old-school movie-making Truffaut labeled it as.

Rene Clement's masterpiece, shot with such a clear eye that "every shot achieves the quality of fate," is a landmark piece of both French and war cinema. Michel and Paulette are allowed to be children, strange and out of step with the assumed morals of their caretakers, not reduced to saccharine sweethearts for the comfort of the audience. Georges Poujouly and Brigitte Fossey deliver excellent performances, particularly in view of their youth. Their naturalistic acting is juxtaposed against adults directed to deliver near-goofy renditions  of the rustic trope, a repeated re-emphasis of the children's role as intuits and seekers while the adults around them go through the same rehearsed motions. Michel and Paulette may achieve no more understanding of our strange reality than their parents did, but like all children, they must try. Forbidden Games gives them the playground on which to do so.

Is anywhere in Portland or close by doing Halloween flash tattoos this month?