Archive for November, 2010
It’s a sad fact that the first thing that comes to mind about Alaska in contemporary America is not the beautifully isolated wild setting — it’s Sarah Palin’s new reality show on TLC or Cuba Gooding …
Put your work- or school-week blues aside this Friday and enjoy the Downtown Bangor Arts Collaborative Artwalk. Downtown Bangor and newcomer Central Street Farmhouse will be all about the arts as the close-knit community showcases its …
Every time I write anything inflammatory or make jabs at an artist, it gets a lot of people riled up. From the previous installment of my column to the infamous opinion piece I wrote about Ke$ha …
It’s that time of year again, when flu shots can be found everywhere you go and lecture halls are filled with sniffling, coughing students. Most of us follow as many preventative measures as we can to …
The Southern Maine music scene consists of a large pool of vagabond musicians scrambling to find their respective niches. In Biddeford, of all places, the stars have aligned and six multi-talented musicians have assembled to produce …
Like the films “Broadcast News” or “Network,” “Morning Glory” takes us behind the scenes of a TV news show and exposes the hard work that goes into making that daily dose of entertainment.
Unlike those two examples, however, “Morning Glory” is …
The concept of the “mashup” has really taken off this century. The ease of file sharing and incessant YouTube posting has turned the idea of layering two disparate tracks over one another into a legitimate sub …
Maine voters narrowly passed a citizen’s initiative to bring a resort gambling facility to Oxford County on Nov. 2.
Despite resident’s approval of Question 1, the measure is still proving to be divisive.
After a campaign that spent …
An Old Town economic development committee holds a spot on its board of managers for the University of Maine president, which some community members say calls into question the university’s role in the city’s fiscal strategy.
UMaine …
A letter to the editor in the Nov. 11 edition of The Maine Campus (Ludacris concert drops beats, but racism hits harder than base), claiming that racial prejudice inspired increased security measures at a hip-hop concert …
