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Thursday, February 9th, 2012, 1:29 am in Style & Culture
Maynard F. Jordan Planetarium presenting rock light shows this month
By Derrick Rossignol

Researchers in a California laboratory in 1960 operated the first functioning laser. About a decade later, as the laser evolved past its primitive state, it became advanced enough to use as a visual spectacle in rock …


Monday, February 6th, 2012, 3:17 am in Style & Culture
Biggest game of the year takes over the Internet
By Derrick Rossignol

No annual event in American cultural history is as important to everybody as the Super Bowl.
That statement was not meant to start an argument — it is definitive. Whether or not they think they’re too cool …


Thursday, February 2nd, 2012, 12:49 am in Style & Culture
By Derrick Rossignol

On Jan. 26, Twitter announced they would start blocking tweets so they cannot be seen in certain countries.
While this move is being called restrictive of free speech, it would enable Twitter to take advantage of the …


Monday, January 30th, 2012, 12:29 am in Style & Culture
University of Maine improve students perform with Portland guests
By Rachel Curit

With the semester in full swing and homework piling up, it’s good to get out and laugh.
Enter Portland-based puppet company The Improvised Puppet Project and the Univerisity of Maine’s own Improv In Sanity. With ukuleles and …


Thursday, January 26th, 2012, 1:19 am in Style & Culture
By Kayla Riley

BANGOR — A miniature post-apocalyptic world as seen through a camera lens. A circus tent containing a silent film on loop.
Contemporary paintings of people and places so real, they seem to leap off the canvases.
All of …


Monday, January 23rd, 2012, 1:28 am in Style & Culture
By Derrick Rossignol

For Adele, The Black Keys, Lady Gaga and others, 2011 was a big year, but it’s time to look forward to what is to come in 2012. Here are some of the biggest and best releases …


Wednesday, January 18th, 2012, 11:45 pm in Style & Culture
The best in cinema for the new year, from Batman to Seuss
By Kayla Riley

Spring semester may be in full swing, but that doesn’t mean you can’t make time to head to a theater near you for a few hours of stress-free cinematic bliss. With a few exceptions, 2012 has …


Thursday, January 12th, 2012, 8:58 am in Style & Culture
By Derrick Rossignol

Conversation Partner Program pairs foreign students with English speakers to improve on language
 
New Year’s resolutions, such as promising yourself to eat healthier and go to the gym more, are often and easily broken. College is a …


Thursday, December 8th, 2011, 1:30 am in Style & Culture
By Derrick Rossignol

At the end of each year, the Internet and magazines are full of raging debate about the year’s best musical material. The Maine Campus has put out lists in the past that have sparked at least …


Monday, December 5th, 2011, 12:47 am in Style & Culture
Penobscot Theatre begins run of new play at Bangor Opera House
By Clint Snyder

The smell of warm gingerbread cookies, Christmas carols echoing in the background, a tree illuminated with multicolor lights and the resounding, mocking phrase, “You’ll shoot your eye out,” are all staples of Christmas in America.
For those …