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India Pale Ale rules. It’s affordable, awesome and a staple available just about everywhere. It’s one of the best and boldest styles of beer. Anyone doubting IPA’s absolute mightiness can answer to brews like Ruination, Long Hammer, ImPaled Ale, Blackheart, Furious and Thulza Doom.
For the second time in three years, a dance club operating at 103 Park St. in Orono is in danger of losing its liquor license. The Orono Town Council spent nearly an hour and a half Monday night deliberating renewals of 103 Ultra Lounge’s special entertainment and liquor licenses.
For the second time in three years, the dance club operating at 103 Park St. in Orono is in danger of losing its liquor license. The Orono Town Council spent nearly an hour and a half Monday night deliberating renewals of 103 Ultra Lounge’s special entertainment and liquor licenses.
Harvest Moon – as a local sandwich shop, its unique touch allows it to succeed in the face of a grim economy particularly tough on small business. Located at 18 Mill St., Harvest Moon opened in September 2007. Business has continuously grown, with each month topping the previous year’s month in profits. That’s no small task considering the numbers: Maine.gov shows statewide restaurant sales experiencing a drop of 1.8 percent in a comparison of November 2007 and November 2008.
“Picture this as a hot air balloon,” John Simpson said of his used bookstore, Dave’s Books, in Old Town. “What I did was cut the basket loose because there’s no more ballast.”
The metaphorical basket was an annex accounting for a major chunk of Dave’s Books – Simpson operates entirely in an 18-and-a-half-by-20-foot room, cutting his rent in half.
Ben Folds will rock the suburbs of Orono on April 28 with his second University of Maine performance in three years.
Folds performed in the Maine Center for the Arts in April 2006. The Maine Campus called his 26-song performance a “great concert for fans that have been with Folds since the late ’90s, as well as those who just found out about him last week.
The title “Revolutionary Road” is genius alliteration for a film following a domestic 1950s couple as they teeter on the precipice of revolutionizing their lives or yielding to conventionalism – continuing to make revolutions in the cyclical, dead-end sense.
Think back to a time before text messaging. Before Twitter. Before the Facebook News Feed. We survived without knowing the every move of our friends. We really did.
One morning when I was three or four years old, I was the first in my house to wake up. I spied a cup of apple juice left out from the night before and set to sipping.
It was beer. I spat it out, repulsed and mad as hell.
A few years later, I either snuck or was graciously granted a sip of Sea Dog Blueberry Ale from a relative.
Everyone wants to travel the globe. David “Tavi” Merrill has actually applied for the job. The 25-year-old University of Maine student has his fingers crossed that he’ll become one of two STA [Student Travel Australia] World Traveler interns this summer.
“There’s one thing I haven’t done, but I’m dying to do,” Tavi says in his video application on YouTube.
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