Archive for Eryk Salvaggio
If our country has laws limiting free speech for soldiers and high school students, why wouldn’t we restrict corporations?
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.’
Other peace prize nominees deserved the honor for work they have done — as opposed to work they promise to do.
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, …
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 …
Why’s everyone workin’ on the Sabbath?
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.
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.
Instead of demonizing Michael Phelps from smoking marijuana, maybe we should rethink our “paranoid delusions” about pot.
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.
