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Wednesday, March 14th, 2012, 11:36 pm in Style & Culture
After John Mayer cancels spring show, Student Entertainment makes new plans
By Derrick Rossignol

Those dreaming of swimming in a deep sea of blankets with renowned musician John Mayer and other music lovers looking forward to hearing his blues guitar chops had their hearts broken this past week when he …


Thursday, February 23rd, 2012, 1:09 am in Style & Culture
To help alleviate school bills, Noyes tends lobster traps in Kennebunkport during fall semester
By Brittany Toth

Second-year kinesiology and physical education student Ryder Noyes spent half of the fall semester off campus, away from classrooms and assigned reading, instead traveling three hours south to tend his lobster traps in order to pay …


Monday, February 20th, 2012, 1:18 am in Style & Culture
By Kayla Riley

The Collins Center for the Arts stage came to life on Saturday, with more than 100 UMaine students performing routines from the world over for the eighth annual International Dance Festival.
As the eager audience settled into …


Thursday, February 16th, 2012, 12:19 am in Style & Culture
By Derrick Rossignol

It all started in a cave in 1914, according to “The History of The Maine Bear,” a publication by Alpha Phi Omega, now Alpha Delta, from the 1980s.
On the northeast side of Mount Katahdin, an Old …


Monday, February 13th, 2012, 12:22 am in Style & Culture
Don’t mourn Valentine’s if you’re single; celebrate independence
By Derrick Rossignol

While Hallmark is busy shoving Cupid’s arrow down our throats, they forget that quite a few people are not romantically involved.
According to a CNN article from 2010 that cites the U.S. Census Bureau, 43 percent of …


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 …