Archive for November, 2006
The University of Maine women’s hockey team will enter play this weekend with the momentum of a successful Thanksgiving weekend. The Black Bears stormed to two impressive victories over Sacred Heart, winning 13-1 and 10-4 on Saturday and Sunday, respectively.
The University of Maine women’s basketball team enjoyed a night of firsts in a 72-61 win over Dartmouth last night.
The Black Bears rallied from a halftime deficit to win for the first time in second-year coach Anne McInerney’s tenure, and also won their fifth November game for the first time in program history to move to 5-1 on the season.
Film director Werner Herzog once said he would climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself to make one of his films. Luckily, that may never be necessary for filmmakers at the University of Maine.
The Maine Channel is reaching out to student filmmakers by providing a budget and a showcase for short films as part of its first annual student film festival.
It’s not often that the Orono music scene is infused with fresh energy – especially from an old source.
WMEB DJs and Orono scene veterans Patrick Anderson and Beth Farnham, better known as DJ Clarity, hope to change that. This Saturday night at the Blues Cafe, the pair are bringing back many of the old names in progressive electronic music from Orono for a “rebirth” of the music scene.
This Friday at 9 p.m. will mark one of the final chances this semester to laugh until it hurts as James Smith, the funniest product of Australia since Foster beer commercials, comes to Memorial Union for a free evening of comedy presented by The Maine Attraction.
1 The Blow Paper Television
2 Depeche Mode The Best of …
3 My Chemical Romance The Black Parade
4 Beck The Information
5 Hot IQs Dangling Modifier
6 Klaxons Xan Valleys EP
7 Tom Waits Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards
8 Rotary Downs
Turn down the lights. Go get yourself a slow sipping drink. That’s where you’ll want to be when the smooth soul of Ryan McCalmon “washes over you,” according to the performer’s Web site, http://www.ryanmccal-mon.com. Hailing from Portland, Maine, McCalmon will bring his emotionally charged “Acoustic-Soul-Rock” fusion to the Frequency at Memorial Union tonight at 8 p.
The Backwoods Broadsides Chaplet Series, established in 1994 by University of Maine English lecturer Sylvester Pollet, published poetry from various local and international contemporary authors in pamphlet form. This past summer, Pollet completed the project after publishing his 100th piece.
Utopia doesn’t have to exist solely within the confines of a textbook. Idealism has been driving an activist-turned-artistic Maine-born collective for six years, and it’s thriving.
Representatives of the Beehive Collective, which encourages the reproduction of its uncopyrighted works, found themselves educating and entertaining for two hours in Neville Hall at the University of Maine last night.
MUSIC
School of Performing Arts Jazz Concert
7:30 p.m.
Thursday, Nov. 30
Hauck Auditorium
Students free, public fee
Opera Workshop
7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 2
Minsky Recital Hall, Class of 1944 Hall
Students free, public fee
Collegiate Chorale Performance
2 p.
