Archive for Eryk Salvaggio
Thursday, November 5th, 2009, 12:23 am in Opinion
Op-Ed: Life, liberty and the pursuit of marriage
By Eryk Salvaggio
America is founded on the principle that I get to have liberty, and life, and the pursuit of my happiness as an unalienable right — which does not mean ‘unalienable unless Aroostook county disagrees.’
Monday, October 19th, 2009, 1:45 am in Opinion
Op-Ed: Nobel Prize should go to change we can see
By Eryk Salvaggio
Other peace prize nominees deserved the honor for work they have done — as opposed to work they promise to do.
Monday, September 21st, 2009, 12:30 am in Style & Culture
Drive By Press: Two MFAs. One Van. 30,000 T-shirts.
By Eryk Salvaggio
Nick Alley slaps a glob of sticky, black ink on a plate. He and his partner, Greg Nanney, are about to give birth to a shirt. Alley is beneath a canopy behind a white van. Behind him, …
Thursday, September 10th, 2009, 2:03 am in Opinion
Op-Ed: I think I just “unliked” Facebook
By Eryk Salvaggio
Anyone with a milkshake fetish living in the Bangor-Orono area had the closest thing they could get to child porn this summer thanks to a certain alternative weekly, The Maine Edge. On the cover – which …
Monday, April 13th, 2009, 12:00 am in Opinion
Op-Ed: Dignity without deities
By Eryk Salvaggio
Why’s everyone workin’ on the Sabbath?
Monday, April 6th, 2009, 12:00 am in Style & Culture
For artist Kerr, it’s all a matter of time
By Eryk Salvaggio
Art emerges from small sources of inspiration. Proust had his madeleine cookies. Nietzsche had Wagner’s opera. Artist Iain Kerr has a bunch of seagulls in Cleveland. OK, it goes a lot deeper than that. There’s paleontology, fossil excavations, Inuit history, global warming, cat harnessing experiments, Darwin and the philosophy of time.
Monday, April 6th, 2009, 12:00 am in Style & Culture
UMaine Artist Profile: Steve Emmons
By Eryk Salvaggio
Steve Emmons is in the e-mail lounge of Memorial Union, surrounded by 250 white shipping boxes, when two passersby stop to ask him a question. “What are you building?” they ask. “Minimalism,” he replies, with a touch of irony. It’s one answer out of many Emmons gives as he constructs the nearly 7-foot-tall cube out of the empty shipping containers.
Thursday, February 12th, 2009, 12:00 am in Opinion
Op-ed: Michael Phelps: model pothead
By Eryk Salvaggio
Instead of demonizing Michael Phelps from smoking marijuana, maybe we should rethink our “paranoid delusions” about pot.
Monday, February 9th, 2009, 12:00 am in News
Turning over an old leaf
By Eryk Salvaggio
It is a Monday night and five members of the community are gathered around a table in the basement of Hannibal Hamlin Hall, looking through magnifying glasses at long, yellowed pieces of straw. After careful analysis, one of them pauses, looks up and makes a declaration in Latin.
Monday, February 9th, 2009, 12:00 am in Style & Culture
Maybe they’re just not funny
By Eryk Salvaggio
Jimmy Smash throws a punch into the face of his enemy. A pink, pulsating light surrounds him as he channels a dead friend in heaven. Throwing the fatal blow, his enemy is sent through the window of an underwater laboratory. Propelled through the sea, he is stopped only by the open jaws of a great white shark, which shreds his body to pieces.
