Archive for January, 2006
If you’re like most Americans, you’re not happy with the way things are going, specifically with the president and Congress. By most Americans, I mean somewhere in the range of 60 percent. Well, if there’s one thing Americans can all agree to do liberally, it’s drinking.
Even in a script, Hollywood was still not able to get it right.
I decided to take a night off from basketball and the NHL and ended up making a mistake – I caught an episode of “7th Heaven.”
This episode, which I had heard people talk about, dealt with a race riot that started at school.
The right to pizza and beer
The new and improved Bear’s Den is a wonderful asset to the UMaine community, welcoming all students until 3:59 p.m. At 4 p.m., however, the iron curtain comes down, turning away any student who wishes to bring Marketplace food into the confines of the bar.
January film releases are a sad sight. Usually lost amongst all the potential Academy Award contenders that work their way into mainstream theaters are movies that can’t make the cut like “Big Momma’s House 2.”
The film opens with Malcolm Turner (Martin Lawrence) giving up his fieldwork position for a desk job, opting to raise a family.
The theme may have been timeless, but some of the routines were not.
Although much of the choreography of the Trinity Irish Dance Company may have been based on traditional Celtic and Irish dance, it was the troupe’s take on modern dance and song that surprised many.
One generally takes the phrase “lookout below” as a warning of impending danger – like if someone was dropping water balloons from the fourth floor of their dorm. That’s the essence of Aaron Pyle’s 8 p.m. Wednesday show of the same name – a giant water balloon thrown at the face of corporate America.
If you are a commuter and living in Old Town, you might be familiar with the quasi-sympathetic groans frequently given by Orono residents. Yes, they live closer to campus and the ubiquitous mill stench isn’t something they have to contend with every day, but we Old Town residents have something that should be the envy of every Orono resident: Old Town Public Library.
You may not have known it, but a major world crisis was avoided Saturday afternoon in University of Maine’s own Lengyel Gym. About 50 members of the local community convened to participate in a global simulation workshop put forth by the O.S. Earth company.
MUSIC
Java Jive: John Rush
8 p.m.
Tuesday, Jan. 31
Main Dining Room, Memorial Union
The Frequency
8 p.m.
Wednesday, Feb. 1
Main Dining Room,
Memorial Union
Mark O’Connor’s Hot
Swing
7 p.m.
Thursday, Feb. 2
Maine Center for the Arts
U-God from the Wu-Tang Clan
8 p.
Here we are in 2006. Already. Really, I was all excited at the possibility of the world ending six years ago. I had visions of carving out a “Mad Max”-style existence for myself. By 2006, I should have already been roaming a desolate, post-Y2K landscape and doing battle with Tina Turner’s armies.
