Local bands ‘Walk The Line’

Posted on May 03, 2010 by Matteson Leigh in Arts & Culture

Last Wednesday, SPACE Gallery on Congress Street hosted their second annual Johnny Cash night. Local musicians, including Christopher Terret, Jessie Pilgrim and The Bonfire, and Caleb Aaron and the Thrill Pills covered some of Cash’s best-known hits and the work of Bob Dylan and Shel Silverstein. SPACE’s walls were decorated with Johnny Cash artwork and [...]

Book Review: ‘The Road’

Posted on April 19, 2010 by Matteson Leigh in Arts & Culture

McCarthy has garnered praise from every corner of the world. Students, teachers, librarians and Oprah – of all people – have been blindsided by the raw emotional power of this novel. It won the Pulitzer in 2006 and McCarthy has been praised as one of the greatest living American novelists. So what is “The Road” [...]

‘Mimedancer’ says yes to dance

Posted on April 19, 2010 by Matteson Leigh in Arts & Culture

Last Thursday night at Space Gallery, Karen Montanaro, resident of Casco and world-famous dancer and mime, lead her most unusual workshop to date. When Mystic Out Bop, an avant-garde improvisational jazz trio and the nights’ opening act, finished warming up on the stage behind her, she welcomed the audience to her experiment. “The goal of [...]

Artists open their home to student artwork

Posted on April 19, 2010 by Matteson Leigh in Arts & Culture

Four years ago, Deborah and Peter Loughlin had an idea. They wanted to open a gallery for local artists, where Deborah and others could display their work in a professional setting. The Isaac Dyer estate, an elegant 1766 farmhouse on the national register of historic homes and residence of the Loughlins, seemed like a perfect [...]

Twilight graphic novel disappoints

Posted on April 12, 2010 by Matteson Leigh in Arts & Culture

“Twilight: The Graphic Novel: Volume One” Stephanie Meyer and Young Kim, 2010 It sounded perfect, but “Twilight” disappointed again. Yen Press released part one in a two-part graphic novelization of the first book in the bestselling “Twilight Saga” last month.  Comics and “Twilight” really did seem like a perfect fit. Pre-releases of the cover art [...]

USM showcases exceptional talent at annual Honors Recital

Posted on April 12, 2010 by Matteson Leigh in Arts & Culture

Last Saturday evening faculty, students, family and friends gathered in the Corthell Concert Hall on Gorham campus for the 33rd Annual Honors Recital. The event featured nine exceptional USM musicians who were chosen in stiff competition though a highly selective audition process. For those in USM’s School of Music, spring is perhaps “the most exiting [...]

Book Review: Four and Twenty Blackbirds

Posted on April 09, 2010 by Matteson Leigh in Arts & Culture

“Four and Twenty Blackbirds” is a modern treatment of the Southern Gothic genre, and it’s sophisticated for what it is: unashamed, straight-up trade paperback genre fiction. Eden Moore has always had the ability to see ghosts. When she was young, she was often visited by the specters of three African women who acted as her [...]

Stephen Walsh has a passion for abstraction

Posted on April 05, 2010 by Matteson Leigh in Arts & Culture

Senior Stephen Walsh revealed his collection of abstract drawings on the seventh floor of the Law school last Thursday. Only one graduating senior is chosen by President Selma Botman to display their work in the law building each year. Walsh is this years’ pick. Of roughly average height and a slender build, Walsh, a native [...]