The “Recipes from Home” program created by Keith Brady, USM’s Director of Dining Services, and promoted by Janet Etzel, USM’s Coordinator of Early Student Involvement and Family Relations, was recently featured in the Portland Press Herald by feature writer Meredith Goad.
Month: November 2008
Get out!
Portland is an adventurer’s dream. If you don’t believe me then you’re not getting out enough, and I’m here to change that. Don’t worry, I’ve been in your shoes before and I hit a rut again recently when I realized I had already explored most of the city’s bicycle paths.
Jake Cowan on: Lucky the Leprechaun
eprechaun. He doesn’t seem like a normal leprechaun. On first glance, one can immediately tell he’s not right – he must have some internal emotional problems. He protects a bowl of cereal from children for starters, and he’s not even good at it. He is in fact terrible.
Payne-ful to Watch
Usually Mark Whalberg can do no wrong in selecting movie roles that showcase his acting skills and tough-guy persona (look to The Departed or We Own the Night). Max Payne proves there is a first time for everything.
Max Payne is based off the ultra-violent and hip videogame of the same name; and the creators of the movie try damn hard to follow the plotline of this game and transfer a sense of it onscreen.
Hangin’ with Mr. Tardiff
With the number one ranked men’s soccer team falling at the hands of Plymouth State and the field hockey team having their impressive playoff run stopped by the venerable Keene State Owls, it’s easy to write this season off as another one in the books.
But not so fast – it’s been an impressive fall for the Huskies.
USM Wind Ensemble performs Nov 9
“We get to have fun and get credit for it. It’s part of our curriculum. But don’t tell anybody!” Dr. Peter Martin, the conductor of the USM wind ensemble, stands poised on the podium, baton in hand, awaiting and expecting the pristine first notes of the work.
A sound stage in South Portland?
Not too many people look to Maine for film-making opportunities, but that may all change if Cape Elizabeth resident Eric Matheson’s big idea can come to life.
Matheson wants to transform South Portland’s former National Guard Armory into a fully equipped sound stage for independent and major film studios.
SAAC gives back
ns, and spooky jack-o’-lanterns all helped to kick off the scare of the night at the 14th annual Halloween Party hosted by the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee in Gorham on Thursday night.
On a night where innovative costumes and free candy provided a great opportunity for USM to give back to the community, dozens of families came out to enjoy the various activities put on my many of our Husky athletes.
Creating Cat Dancer
Thirty years ago, the man who calls himself Cat Dancer was a young, self-described introvert enthralled with computers and math, walking quietly through his family’s five acres of woods in North Monmouth, Maine. He rode his bike through the town’s empty streets past the smoky, brick expanse of Tex-Tech Industries-the world’s leading producer of tennis ball felt; a place where workers are liable to lose a few fingers in the machines.
The Venus Project
For many of us today, the world is becoming increasingly unaffordable. With a crumbling economy, an endless war, and a collective ignorance about the environment, the most powerful country in the world has become the most indebted and wasteful country in the world.
A House Divided
Frustrations are running high over Bayside Village, the independently-owned student housing complex on Marginal Way in Portland.
Tensions between residents, management and the city erupted late last week, after the Portland police department mandated drastic changes to the building’s community guidelines.
Men’s soccer wins first LEC title
Greg Cox (Brookline MA) knew what had to be done in his last regular season game as a Husky.
And with 15 minutes left on the clock he got it done.
The senior captain took a solid pass across the middle from senior Sinisa Bajic (Belgrade, Serbia) and slotted a shot home under the diving Rhode Island College keeper to give the Huskies a 1-0 win over the Anchormen and the school’s first-ever LEC regular season crown.
With a bang: A New Brain
You may not have heard, but there is a musical theatre major at USM, and it is producing spectacular work. The community was privy to this work over the weekend as fourteen student vocalists took to the Corthell Concert Hall stage. They transformed it into the mind of Gordon Schwinn–and a restaurant, a sidewalk, an apartment, a sailboat, and a hospital room: all without techincal scenery other than the actors themselves, a few props, and pianos.
Letter from the editor
Maybe they think it’s appropriate, maybe they don’t see us as a captive audience, or maybe George Bush is the funniest man alove, but USM professors espousing their political views in the classroom is a practice that divides our community along it’s political fault lines, and often shifts focus away from the subject at hand.
WeVote brings some life to the parties
Thursday’s “Life of the Party” political forum was formulated as a break from the candidate-driven, partisan forums broadcast over the last year, where answers and platforms are so routine and regimented, a voter could slip into election-induced déj? vu.
As soon as the slam-poetry styling of the Freedom Choir began to echo their rendition of “The Times They Are A-Changin'” from the back of the Woodbury Campus Center’s amphitheater, it was clear this was not going to be another starchy, dry discussion panel.
What to do when in limbo
It’s that time of year again. Fall has all but passed us by, the leaves are dying and the weather is getting colder every minute. On the other hand, it’s not quite winter yet either. The ground is still bare so there won’t be any hitting of the slopes any time soon.
Caleigh and the chicken
Just last week I heard on the radio that during Whole Foods Fall Madness Sale whole chickens were going for .99/lb. accompanied by .39/lb. butternut squash (sale ends November 4th, but the store is open until 10 p.m.). I heard value either way, as you can get a lot of mileage out of a chicken.
Break down the (laboratory) walls
An estimated 20 percent of Americans live with a disability of some kind, yet the disabled make up just five percent of the workforce in science and engineering. It’s a gap the National Science Foundation would like to narrow.
And they’ve enlisted the help of USM.
Jake Cowan on: Being the President
August 30th, 2004 was the day I turned 18. Everyone and their mothers asked me if I was going to vote in the upcoming election. I told them, “No. One vote can’t change anything.” I was kidding when I said this and had every intention in the world to vote, but whether I voted or not didn’t really matter.
Muskie contracts face reviews
USM’s Muskie School of Public Service is one of the primary recipients of “no bid” contracts awarded by state agencies, agreements that are coming under extensive review in the coming months.
The contracts are cooperative agreement with agencies, such as the Department of Health and Human Services.
Portland native to head LAX team
The University named Lauren Reid, a Portland native and Deering High School graduate, the new women’s lacrosse coach last week.
Reid becomes the fifth coach in the program’s history and replaces Sue Frost who was at the helm for three years. Frost has accepted the women’s lacrosse job at University of New England.
Sexualized schizo-pop:
Not even the previos album, Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? could have prepared us for the newly released trashy-pop funk-fest better known as Skeletal Lamping. Beyond Of Montreal’s usual tendency to evolve their genre, album-to-album, leadman Kevin Barnes pushes the envelope with hypersexuality, hyperactivity, and a very short attention span.
Broken Social Scene pounces Bowdoin College
The Canadian collective Broken Social Scene put on a fantastic and unique show this week in our backyard. While some bands might get lost in the number of members, (more than 10!) Broken Social Scene does it right with eclectic compositions and an amazing stage presence.
A moment with O.A.R.’s Richard On
This week I had the pleasure of talking with the guitarist of the popular college rock band O.A.R. (Of A Revolution). The band recently released their sixth studio album, “All Sides,” in July and it debuted at #13 on the Billboard charts. If that’s not an eye opener, then consider them playing sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden and opening for the Dave Matthews Band as solid evidence of their recent dominance.