Sex was on everyone’s minds last week, especially in the Glickman Library. Moderated by USM’s Diana Long, professor of history and women’s and gender studies, a forum titled “Silencing Sex Ed” presented a panel of experts to discuss teaching abstinence to students in America and abroad.
Category: Arts & Culture
DON’T STAY HOME
Monday, February 4
Marie-France Lefebvre, former prompter at the Metropolitan Opera will lead several master classes today. Sessions of piano coaching from 10 a.m.-12 p.m.; French and Italian diction sessions will be held from
3 – 5 p.m.; and voice coaching with the Opera Workshop will be held from 7 to 9pm.
As celebrity gossip mounts, so do its web pages
Yesterday on PerezHilton.com, there were three postings keeping up with the mental health of Miss Britney Spears and her trips to the psychiatric ward of the LA hospital at which she is becoming a regular.
D-listed.com is a celebrity gossip site that prizes itself for updating every fifteen minutes.
Five bands you must listen to (if you don’t already)
LAMINATED CAT
A band from Maine! This quartet from the Augusta area changed their name from Interobang to Laminated Cat and moved to Boston, where they’ve recently opened for Apples In Stereo. They even played 2007’s Athens PopFest in Georgia, with the likes of Ted Leo & The Pharmacists and Daniel Johnston.
Fiery Furnaces pack Portland’s house
The Brooklyn-based Fiery Furnaces played at SPACE gallery last Saturday in support of Widow City, their sixth full-length release in four years. Portland’s Phantom Buffalo opened, playing a few songs from their previous Shishimumu, but mostly selections from their forthcoming Take To The Trees.
Faculty Art Show draws eager students, art-law enforcement
Forty-five minutes after the reception opened some of the professors had trickled in.
A gallery employee stuck a tiny red dot next to a painting by professor Richard Brown Lethem, indicating that it had sold for hundreds of dollars. Gallery curator Carolyn Eyler slowly made her rounds.
Young talents come to USM for weekend of jazz improv
The room was buzzing with energy. Parents had video recorders, students were leaning in to pay delicate attention to each other’s performances, and in the back was a row of standing smilers. The beaming back row, it was obvious, were the coordinators of the program, showing gestures of success, nodding to one another in delight of what was going on onstage.
DON’T STAY HOME
monday, january 28
RON PAUL. AT USM.
Republican presidential nominee Ron Paul will speak this morning on campus. Free/ 9:30-10:30 a.m./ Hannaford Lecture Hall/ Portland campus/ Contact Jason Lavoie 228-8768
tuesday, january 29
HIT THE ROAD.
What USM is calling ‘The Ultimate Road Trip: Campus2Career’ will be an hour-long interactive presentation on the ins and outs of succeeding in courses, the college internship, goal-setting, and developing a ‘personal brand.
USM grad student bears the baton
“One, and two, and cellos now.”
It is cacophony. Cellos screech, violins come in early, and at the front of the room, Marshunda Smith stands, poised, her face not giving in to the grimace that anyone else would make.
This group of children is just beginning to learn how to hold their instruments and bows, and while they might want to play the theme to Star Wars, they have quite some time before that is possible.
DON’T STAY HOME
Monday, January 21
LOLA. L-O-L-A. The Portland Museum of Art shows Lola Alvarez Bravo, credited as Mexico’s first acclaimed female photographer. The exhibit features 55 vintage photographs
USM Jazz Quintet blazes trails Downeast
During the winter break, five fledging USM jazz musicians found work in Downeast Maine. Over the course of several days the aptly, if uncreatively named USM Jazz Quintet-Noel Brennan (drums), Josh Evans (piano), Jim Ellis (guitar), Kyle Hardy (saxophones) and Chris Sprague (bass)-filled a Calais, Maine auditorium several times over and met with local high school musicians for some jazz performance workshops.
The Leftovers have something to sing about
The Leftovers are traveling the globe and taking the world by storm. They’re also attending classes at USM.
The band formed in 2002, and immediately turned heads with their EP Mitton Street Special. Two years later, they released their first full-length album, “Stop, Drop, Rock, & Roll.
Beating January – Conquering misery in a few simple steps
As the New Years festivities subsided, and the long, cold month set in, a gallant plan was formulating. And although it seems as if winter has already slapped us by declaring our semester start with a blizzard, we can still win. Behold, a brief guide to pleasures that will keep you going through the rest of this cruel month.
Library donor Judy Glickman exhibit at PMA
The very first thing Judith Ellis Glickman suggests during our interview is that if USM students would like, she’d be happy to do some guided-walk-throughs of her upcoming exhibit.
This is something that would be impossible from the current exhibitor, the late Frank Llyod Wright to consider.
Time-Lag Records
You’ve probably noticed a new shop above Strange Maine at the end of Forest Avenue. Time-Lag Records, run by Nemo Bidstrup and some friends of his, is an extension of his record label of the same name, which has been operating out of Portland for years.
Time-Lag releases records from Maine’s best, along with reissues of music from around the world.
Lucid local rock trio home at USM
Jeff Beam
Staff writer
The Big Easy should be jamming this Tuesday. Dominic & The Lucid take the stage with Blind Melon, and have created quite a buzz for themselves. The band is a powerful rock trio from northern Maine, who have now claimed Portland as their humble home.
Name your price
Music columnist
If you want to know where popular music will be in five years, just pay attention what Radiohead is doing right now.
The quintet of trailblazers from Oxford, England have done it again. The band that signaled the blend of electronic music with alternative rock has now made the first move towards an entirely new system of marketing music.
Student performers get flighty
I first met Gary Thayer last year-as the robot Bender from Futurama, dressed in an elaborate homemade Halloween costume that included silver dryer pipes, a huge cardboard suit, and silver gloves bigger than his head. Something told me that he had a creative streak that surpassed all the ghosts and French maids at the party.
Don’t stay home
Monday, Oct 22
It’s Game Night at Styxx, so I don’t really know what you’re waiting for. Go play.
Free/ 21+/ Styxx/ 3 Spring Street/ Portland/ 828-0822
Tuesday, Oct 23
Get naked. The Naked Truth Project will be at Flatbread tonight to answer all your questions about consumer products, toxins, and “green” alternatives.
Living Proof of talent at USM
The Main stage at Russell Hall was sweltering Wednesday night, a product of the day’s heat and blazing stage lights. Student Kristen Peters, assistant stage manager, pointed out between scenes, “We need to light this differently, he couldn’t be reading by that light if it were 1:00 in the morning.
Media Whore
It is both exciting and enlightening to find that social media sites like MySpace and Facebook aren’t being exclusively used to show off personal preferences, arrange booty calls, and form nonsensical groups like “I Secretly Want to Punch Slow Walking People in the Back of the Head.
Abolishing Columbus Day
USM senior Bethany Tremblay has organized a rally and protest against Columbus Day. She is the social-work intern for the Multicultural Student Affairs office and works with the organization to get the protest off the ground. She’s making moves, and we wanted to talk to her about them.
Music Review – Foo Fighters
Released Sept. 25 2007
Echoes, Silence, Patience, & Grace marks the Foo Fighters’ sixth studio release. After 2005’s In Your Honor double-album, Dave Grohl and the gang take a different approach, only releasing 12 tracks. In Your Honor split the Foo Fighters’ normally melodic driving alternative rock sound and spread it across the two CD’s: Disc One boasted the hardest rocking, guitar-crunching scream-fests the band has ever mustered, while Disc Two was an all-acoustic affair featuring the likes of Norah Jones.
Don’t Stay Home
Monday, Oct 1
Show some love to our campus’ contribution to culture in the area. WMPG hosts its annual Fall Begathon starting today and lasting the entire week. Listener support pays for 1/3 of all that you hear and all that they do so very well. A few dollars is much nicer than blowing them kisses from afar.