Portland, Maine is known for it’s variety of music; whether it be rock, punk,…
Category: Arts & Culture
Event celebrates writing minors
This week, the English department hosted a series of events for their “Celebrate Writers”…
For Kyle Gervais, ‘it’s all about the music’
The pounding rain and the dark night sky made it hard to find. Hidden…
Movie Review: Clash of the Titans
RATING: PG-13 Grade: C+ Set on the mountainous coast of ancient Greece, “Clash of…
USM showcases exceptional talent at annual Honors Recital
Last Saturday evening faculty, students, family and friends gathered in the Corthell Concert Hall…
Book Review: Four and Twenty Blackbirds
“Four and Twenty Blackbirds” is a modern treatment of the Southern Gothic genre, and…
Restaurant Review: Duckfat
Grade: A Tucked away on the east end of Middle Street inside an old…
Stephen Walsh has a passion for abstraction
Senior Stephen Walsh revealed his collection of abstract drawings on the seventh floor of…
Movie Review: Hot Tub Time Machine
Rated: R Grade: B- “Hot Tub Time Machine” follows the adventures of four characters,…
‘Welcome Home’: Pax East draws 52,290 to Boston for a weekend of gaming
On March 26 there was an extraordinary amount of traffic around the Prudential Building…
Union gals, booze and throwing knives
Produced in partnership by the USM Department of Theatre and School of Music, “The Pajama Game” is set during a labor dispute in a pajama factory where the union girls, lead by Babe, played by Emily Holton, have reached an impasse with the Factory Head Myron Hassler over his refusal to raise wages by seven and a half cents.
Restaurant Review: Local 188
Local 188 at 685 Congress Street, is one of those places that every Portlander should experience at least once. The vibrant, artsy atmosphere welcomes all diners – from business professionals in suit and tie, to the young scholars dressed in USM sweat pants and t-shirt – to pick a seat, sit down and enjoy.
Movie Review: Alice in Wonderland
Warning: Tim Burton’s latest film, “Alice in Wonderland” is not a remake of Lewis Caroll’s classic tale of childhood misadventure. Rather it is an adaption of the famous gibberish poem, “The Jaberwocky,” from “Through the Looking Glass.” The essence of the original “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” is completely wiped from the story.
GEB holds USM’s Got Talent in Gorham
The Gorham Events Board last Wednesday held the second semi-annual USM’s Got Talent competition. The variety show and competition was organized by Dominque Hilton who also served as a judge along with two other students.
Contestants competed for prizes such as a basket of nick knacks for third place, sweat shirt and sweatpants for second place, and for first place, an IPod Shuffle.
Book Review: The Sea
The 2005 winner of the Man Booker prize – a yearly award given to the best novel published by an author native to any territory of the former British Empire -“The Sea” by John Banville is exactly the kind of novel that seems to win the award. Banville’s prose is elegant, erudite, subdued and focuses on the power and frailty of memory in the void left by death.
The Leftovers Take Europe: Part II
October 19. Dublin. Originally this was supposed to be a day off. Who needs those? We were only on day 3 and didn’t quite need one yet, especially when a day off usually just becomes an excuse to not take it easy. Plus, we would be taking an overnight ferry from Liverpool (the home of The Beatles) to Dublin, Ireland, a place I have always wanted to see.
Album Review: Broken Bells
Around the USM campus you have probably seen ads for the new collaborative band Broken Bells. This highly advertised band is a techno/indie collaboration between the Shins’ James Mercer and award winning producer and self proclaimed auteur musician Danger Mouse, of Gnarls Barkley.
DIY Punk Night at Hastings
Last Friday night at the bottom of Hastings Hall, something unusual and loud occurred from 7 pm to almost midnight. You’d think an RA would serve a warning, or even a fee for all the noise complaints from above, but they knew better than to mess with the young punks putting on a rock show in Hastings Formal Lounge.
Book Review: Little Bee
“Little Bee,” by Chris Cleave, is the “story of two women,” as it says on the back cover, and how their “lives collide” at two points, two years apart. The back cover implores the reader not to spoil the book for others because “the magic is in how the story unfolds.
Movie Review: From Paris, With Love
From Paris, With Love follows James Reece , played by Jonathan Rhys Meyers(August Rush), an employee at the U.S embassy who dreams of one day becoming a Bond-like secret agent. He is given the opportunity to show his worth by being partnered with Charlie Wax, John Travolta(Taking of Pelham 123), an eccentric American spy with an unorthodox approach to his job.
The life of a model student
Stephanie MacDonald isn’t afraid to get naked.
When not in class, the undeclared junior runs her own business as a freelance model booking her own shoots, which sometimes involve nude modeling.
In MacDonald’s opinion, freelance modeling is completely different from what you see on shows like Americas Next Top Model.
Singing sensations at USM
On the evening of Wednesday, Feb. 24, seven students came together at the Woodbury Campus Center in Portland to compete in Portland Events Board’s first USM Idol competition. The students competed for the first place prize of $100 while performing a variety of compositions, ranging from “When You Believe” from the Prince of Egypt Soundtrack to cult classic, “Rocky Raccoon.
Shutter Island
Martin Scorcese’s newest movie begins in 1954 on a tugboat carrying US Marshal Teddy Daniels, played by Leonardo DiCaprio (Titanic, The Departed) to Shutter Island, a small island off the coast of Boston and home to a renowned high-security mental institution.
Book Review: The Book Thief
This is the story of Leisel Memminger, a foster child in Nazi Germany. In 1939, her brother died on the train to Molching, their new home, and nine year-old Leisel stole her first book. She couldn’t read, but she would learn. The act was a prelude to what she would become: A book thief.