Archive for April, 2009
Fingers will dance from green to blue, back to green, then on to red and yellow. Sticks will twirl and pound ferociously while the singer does his or her best imitation of some of the worlds …
How can you take a great cast, give them a funny plot and still see your show crash and burn? This is the question I was asking myself while I watched Fox’s newest show, “Sit Down, …
At one time, Doom – with aliases such as MF Doom, Viktor Vaughn, King Geedorah and the Supervillain – was the poster child for underground hip-hop. After withdrawing from the mainstream in the early ’90s following …
The minute Robert Downey, Jr.’s jaded reporter meets up with Jamie Foxx’s babbling musician in “The Soloist,” it seems the film is going to be a treat. These terrific performers sharing the screen should and often …
AUGUSTA – The Maine Judiciary Committee heard more than 11 hours of testimony from ministers, lawyers, students, doctors, gay and lesbian couples as well as dozens of other Maine citizens to discuss two bills.
One of the …
Video of the open forum on gay marriage on April 22, 2009.
A group speckled with the orange of the University of Maine’s 2009 Pride-Week T-shirts gathered under the BAT bus shelter outside of Memorial Union April 22, well before the sun rose. This cluster represented students who …
Chanting “books not bombs,” the Maine Peace Action Committee, a University of Maine student group, held a public demonstration April 20 to protest military spending and advocate for increased funds for education. The demonstration drew support …
Wilde Stein requested funds from the University of Maine General Student Senate April 21 for a bus to the Augusta hearing of the gay-marriage bill. It was a request that would send students to a “potentially …
Dark green leaves, each 5 feet long, press against the glass ceiling. The potted banana trees have grown to their limit, and now produce fruit every 5 to 7 years.
It’s not the jungle. It’s the interior …
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