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Thursday, April 26th, 2012, 1:23 am in Style & Culture
By Derrick Rossignol, and Michael Shepherd

With a 45-foot tall stage, giant video screens, music, lights and paint, Dayglow transformed the normally unadorned Field House into a hedonistic paradise on Wednesday night.
Billed as “the world’s largest paint party,” the buzz surrounding Dayglow …


Monday, April 23rd, 2012, 2:47 am in News
By Derrick Rossignol

The Maine Peace Action Committee and other campus organizations held Progress On The Mall on Thursday.
The event, which included a rally and camp-out, saw members from groups including the Student Women’s Association, the Sustainable Agriculture Enthusiasts, …


Sunday, April 22nd, 2012, 11:54 pm in Style & Culture
Over 30 acts played at two-day festival
By Kayla Riley

When local bands, DJs and reggae, jazz, and rock musicians alike converge to draw crowds to a corner of town for a two-night music festival, all signs point north.
Kingman’s, a Old Town bar, welcomed a total …


Sunday, April 22nd, 2012, 11:49 pm in Style & Culture
By Derrick Rossignol

Free Range Music Fest – April 28 in Belfast
Just $18 (or $12 for kids) will get you an all-day pass to the Free Range Music Fest, with stages on eight different venues around town. Over 30 …


Sunday, April 22nd, 2012, 11:46 pm in Style & Culture
Cluchey’s ‘The Cage’ a drama about struggles of dominance in prison life, opens this weekend
By Clint Snyder

American playwright Rick Cluchey’s dark drama “The Cage” opens this Friday at the Cyrus Pavilion Theatre. The play centers around the lives of prisoners as they struggle for dominance over one another.
The play has only ever …


Sunday, April 22nd, 2012, 11:44 pm in Style & Culture
Resources for music discovery make modern day best time for listeners to develop unique tastes
By Derrick Rossignol

How can anyone argue the ’60s and ’70s weren’t the best eras for music?
Jimi Hendrix was redefining how every guitarist after him approached the instrument, Black Sabbath was inventing heavy metal, and a certain four blokes …


Sunday, April 22nd, 2012, 11:35 pm in Style & Culture
Plot sometimes thin, but grown-up Efron thrills as lead
By Kayla Riley

By now, renowned romance novelist Nicholas Sparks has played out just about every plotline imaginable to fit within the vanilla, boy-meets-girl confines of what he does best.
Seven of these crowd-pleasing stories have made their ways to …


Sunday, April 22nd, 2012, 11:31 pm in Style & Culture
Maine rockers unify variety of influences on cohesive disc
By Hillary Nason

The Running Gags is what happens when music is not placed into just one genre.
The band embraces “no rules” punk, hard rock, pop-punk, reggae and ska. However, the music of this quintuplet can be easily related …


Wednesday, April 18th, 2012, 10:53 pm in Style & Culture
Bangor Bull Moose prepares for Record Store Day, an international celebration of independent music shops
By Derrick Rossignol

With the dawn of the digital age, fans of traditional music formats are right to fear the death of physical copies of music and real-life record stores.
iTunes, Spotify and similar services make it so convenient to …


Wednesday, April 18th, 2012, 10:46 pm in Style & Culture
Performers' instrumentation included lighters, triangles
By Rachel Curit

The Percussion Ensemble performed a show in Minsky Recital Hall on Tuesday night.
Made up of 12 percussionists and one conductor, professor Thomas Martin Wubbenhorst, the group played a variety of instruments from snare drums to xylophones …