Archive for February, 2009
The University of Maine track teams finished strong, with the men finishing sixth and the women fifth, at this past weekend’s America East Championship at Boston University. Freshman Riley Masters brought home the AE Most Outstanding Rookie honor after winning the 3,000-meter run.
Nothing comes my way in the form of stimulus or any other lottery the government chooses to dispense. I am going to have to rely on myself to pay my bills.
“Sweeney Todd” is probably one of the most brilliant, most demented shows to grace the stages of Broadway. Stephen Sondheim, the musical genius behind the lyrics to “West Side Story” and “Gypsy,” broke and rebuilt the mold to create the dark, yet wildly popular musical.
“This is the worst comedy you’ll hear in the country tonight.”
Nice try, Demetri Martin. There was no fooling the sold-out University of Maine crowd at the Collins Center for the Arts on Saturday, Feb. 21 – the night was all laughs.
Martin stepped onstage shortly after 8 p.
- Audio Slideshow (contains profanity)
- Podcast featuring audio of Demetri Martin’s concert: Play or Subscribe (contains profanity)
The University of Maine’s Advanced Engineered Composite Center showcased two new bridge-building technologies Friday that officials said will make bridges quicker and cheaper to build and more durable.
University, state and federal officials shared the stage at a press conference Friday to announce the completion of the first bridge to use one of the new technologies and the formation of a company to further develop the other technology.
Five hundred miles north of Canada’s border with Minnesota, the town of Snow Lake, Manitoba is home to approximately 1,300 residents. A single school enrolls 273 students, grades one through twelve combined. Not exactly the recruiting hot spot of Canadian hockey.
Resident threatened with being “lit up”
Police reported that three men woke two female residents on the second floor of Androscoggin Hall at 1 a.m. Feb. 17 by banging and kicking at their door, which increased in volume and voracity when the women didn’t answer.
Liz Grover held what looked like a small, pure-white cloud in her lap. Then it started kicking. “If they start panicking, just cover their eyes,” she instructed, inspiring quiet chuckling from the others in the room. “As beautiful as they are, they’re dummies, and they’ll think you’re gone, so they calm down.
Take everything cool about the “The Matrix,” “X-Men” and the hit TV series “Heroes,” throw it out the window, and the result is 2008′s “Jumper.” Now, take “Jumper,” replace Hayden Christensen with Chris Evans, make the plot even more convoluted, and you’re left with “Push.
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