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Wednesday, April 20th, 2011, 11:52 pm in Style & Culture
Orono’s late-night rock stars prepare for the real world, but not before throwing down a few final funky jams
By Elizabeth Caron

Occupying the former residence of local greats Bootiddy and The Rustic Overtones, Orono-based band Frank and the Redhots have had quite the shoes to fill.
But with packed shows, original tunes and an eccentric sense of humor, …


Sunday, April 3rd, 2011, 10:16 pm in Style & Culture
By Elizabeth Caron

With over 600 gigs each year and the responsibility to serve the president of the United States, Col. Michael Colburn is no conventional professional musician.
He has performed for every U.S. president since Ronald Reagan and conducts …


Wednesday, March 30th, 2011, 11:03 pm in Style & Culture
“To Kill a Mockingbird” production by Penobscot Theatre Company, opened March 30, is running through mid-April
By Elizabeth Caron

The Penobscot Theatre Company continues its 2010-2011 season as it presents a dramatized version of Pulitzer Prize winning novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” written by Harper Lee and originally published in 1960.
The play, directed by Producing …


Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011, 10:56 pm in Style & Culture
By Elizabeth Caron

With enough determination and knowledge, even a fear of heights isn’t enough to pass up an adventure beginning on top of a 9,200-foot mountain in Venezuela.
Michael Merchant, a 47-year-old University of Maine graduate from Hampden, is …


Thursday, February 17th, 2011, 12:48 am in Style & Culture
By Elizabeth Caron

If Amy-Jane Mooney were 2 inches taller in high school, she could have been a Radio City Rockette, showing off her professionally trained high kicks in New York City.
Fortunately for Mooney, her stage presence and talent …


Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011, 10:41 pm in Style & Culture
New York-based artist uses simplistic works and lightplay to create delicate pieces
By Elizabeth Caron

Shadows meet color while depth perception is challenged in Lord Hall Gallery’s most recent exhibit, Scissor/Paper/Light, made entirely of paper.
The display, which runs from Friday, Feb. 4 to March 18, features work by New York-based artist …


Sunday, January 30th, 2011, 11:46 pm in Style & Culture
Old Town night spot ‘miserable’ and ‘insufferably crowded’ during raging Saturday night send-off
By Elizabeth Caron

If The Dime weren’t already closing for financial and legal reasons, it would have been shut down for being over capacity Saturday night.
Packed full from the front door to the back wall, The Dime hosted its …


Thursday, April 22nd, 2010, 2:30 am in Style & Culture
An attempt to unroll UMaine’s ‘stonerschool’ stereotype
By Elizabeth Caron

Located in a town with coordinates farther north than most of the rest of the United States, the University of Maine and the students who attend have gained a reputation for a lot of things — …


Thursday, April 15th, 2010, 12:56 am in Style & Culture
Student-composer leads jazz group The White Keys while tinkling on the ivory
By Elizabeth Caron

Most musicians can take the little black notes on pages of sheet music and turn them into a melody through an instrument or singing, but few have the ability, motivation or patience to actually place the …


Thursday, February 25th, 2010, 2:34 am in News
By Elizabeth Caron

The University of Maine could save millions of dollars in energy costs over a 20-year period if an anticipated grant request to fund a deal between the university, the city of Old Town and Casella Waste …