Puzzle answers for the 4/20 issue of The Free Press.
Category: Arts & Culture
“I’m going with you”
Never has a sleepy beach town looked so good. The production team Mint Films produced their longest film to date, “The Transition of Minor Skies,” a film about the clashing of familiar comfort with the possibility of change.
Written and directed by Jeff Griecci, the film follows the lives of Hunter and Dom (played by Ian Carlson and Parker Newton) in a sleepy beach town.
Baltimore buzz band sets the bar for albums in ’09
2009 has already been a great year for music, and we’re not even half way through. Over the final few weeks of this semester, I will review my favorite musical releases of this year so far. First off, Animal Collective…
Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion
Animal Collective is perhaps one of the most hyped up bands in the indie music world, but rightfully so.
Epicurean Epics
Last year our Easter feast was cooked outdoors in the mild air full of chattering bird sounds. Peter masterfully grilled a butterflied leg of lamb slathered with a blend of lots of fresh minced garlic and coarse mustard. Asparagus, baby red potatoes, ruby beets, and sleek carrots all got roasted on the grill.
Pick up a random album
Lately, I’ve been trying out a new album choosing system. I go to the CD’s and I choose an album randomly. Sometimes, the outcome of this system isn’t what I’d like it to be, but it works 90% of the time. I try to go to the bargain bins, and look for interesting music that I’ve never heard before.
Let’s get bromantic
The term bromance has recently appeared in our culture to describe a certain relationship; a bromance is when two men are best friends and are deeply involved with each other.but not in a homosexual manner. The word is a combination of brother and romance.
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From the studio to the street
The First Friday Art Walk is a cultural gem of Portland.
This past Friday on April 3 people flooded the drizzly streets to observe artwork that was vastly different at each exhibit. Depending on your energy level, you can get a small sampling of art and only go to a few places or you can be adventurous and try to visit over 60 locations participating in the art walk.
Another way to keep Portland independent
Bull Moose began as a makeshift music store, carrying only a few discs. Started in Brunswick by Bowdoin College junior Brett Wickard in 1989, it is now the largest independent retailer of new and pre-owned music, movies, and video games in Maine and New Hampshire.
Maine filmmakers launch web series
Where do you find lesbian speed dating, two brothers living together as the odd couple and a kleptomaniac mother-daughter team?
Look no further than Willard Beach, Maine-or, more specifically, WillardBeach.tv.
Gitgo Productions, the creative vehicle of Maine filmmakers Kate Kaminski and Betsy Carson, have launched the premiere of their new ongoing comedic web series, “Willard Beach, The Real Story 2.
“I’m on Percocet right now”
Over last winter break, I drove across the country with a girl I couldn’t stand. She had asked me to ride with her out to her new home in San Diego; my charge being to ward off potential rapists and thugs who might accost her and her smelly dog at rest stops and hotel parking lots.
Epicurean Epics
It’s time to start thinking about foraging for mushrooms on the forest floors, and to look forward to the bright green fiddlehead fronds that will poke through the ground around Mother’s Day. I began to think about mushrooms after I received a quart of dried Morels that were harvested in Idaho and sent to me in remembrance of my April Fool’s birthday last week.
The Everyday Visuals
The Everyday Visuals are preparing for the release of their third self-titled album on April 14th. If you like bands such as Radiohead, Wilco, R.E.M., and Fleet Foxes, you will love this band. They play around in Portland once in a while, and they’re aiming to come back sometime in the summer.
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Sudoku & crossword puzzle answers for the April 6th issue of The Free Press
The arctic as art
Arctic exploration has always been a fascination in American culture. The Canadian poet F.R. Scott once wrote about the Arctic, “Hidden in wonder and snow, or sudden with summer, this land stares at the sun in a huge silence, endlessly repeating something we cannot hear.
Epicurean Epics
Majestic maples over seventy feet tall overlook Connemara Farm’s landscape, generously shading in the heat of summer, and providing homes to robins and Baltimore orioles, as well as resting places for crows, ravens, grackles, sparrows, and sharp-shinned hawks.
The 32nd annual Honors Recital
The University of Southern Maine Music Department will be holding its 32nd Honors Recital in Corthell Hall on the Gorham campus Saturday, April 4th at 8 p.m. This recital will display nine of the music department’s most talented musicians performing solo pieces on their primary instrument.
Darien Brahms, Metal Feathers, Honey Clouds @ SPACE, 3/12/2009
There are several things one can count on at a Space Gallery show. It will be dark. There will be dozens and dozens of hairy and/or horn-rimmed hipsters. The drinks will be relatively inexpensive-$2 PBR and $5 Maker’s Mark. The employees with whom you exchange money for wristbands will be smiling and grateful.
Inglourious Basterds
Quentin Tarantino is God. Not in the religious sense, but when it comes to movies. Maybe King Midas is more fitting: everything he is involved with turns to gold. Either way, it is well known that Tarantino is an encyclopedia of every genre of film, due to all the quirky elements his films are based on.
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Sudoku & Crossword puzzle answers for the March 30th issue.
Two operas for the price of one
If you have always wanted to see an opera, but have never had the opportunity nor wanted to pay for pricey tickets, check out the two one-act Puccini operas “Suor Angelica” and “Gianni Schicchi,” beginning March 13 at USM.
Full and professional operas are only put on once every four years by the USM Music Department.
Filling books with art, not words
There is something lovely about getting a new book; protecting the cover, trying to keep it crease free while you tear into the meaty text, ingesting each word, illustrating the story in your mind as you faithfully follow the narrative. When you reach the last sentence, you tuck your friend on a shelf where it waits to be revisited, borrowed, or perhaps for you to walk by, tracing your finger down its spine as you reminisce over the time you once spent together.
An interesting and eclectic collection
Peapod Recordings has released a new compilation, Winter 2009-an overview of the label’s 2008 releases and a preview of what’s to come in 2009.
The 15-song collection is a solid assemblage of some of Maine’s most eclectic and interesting musicians. Ron Harrity’s growing Portland label boasts an impressive roster that covers a range of sounds and styles.
DVD Battle:Nixonathon
he last of the big Oscar contenders to land on DVD this spring will be “Frost/Nixon,” April 21.
Until then, journalist David Frost will continue to reap the benefits of his 1977 gamble by filling that vacuum with the DVD release of the actual Frost/Nixon interviews.