The Vagina Monologues are back! The student-run production is being presented in accordance with V-Day, a college initiative to celebrate women and end sexual violence. The presentation is sponsored by the USM Women’s Resource Center and 10 percent of the proceeds will go to RAWA (Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afganistan), the rest towards Family Crisis Services, and Sexual Assault Response Services.
Category: Arts & Culture
“Bedroom” deserves Academy recognition
“In the Bedroom” is one of the best films of the past few years. This work of art doesn’t pull tricks to shock or manipulate emotions, but meticulously creates a unique situation where the moviegoer isn’t passively watching, but becomes entangled in the complicated reactions characters confront after a horrible tragedy.
Eat-it
As it gets closer to Valentine’s Day, it’s good to know a restaurant with romantic and elegant dining. An Italian restaurant that exemplifies just that is located in Portland’s West End, hidden among the residential buildings along Congress Street.
The Roma Caf? was founded in 1924 and moved from 489 Congress Street to its current location in 1935.
Destinations
Tuesday, Feb. 5
WMPG hosts Portland’s Homelessness Marathon, 24 hours of live programming from Monument Square, Portland featuring local activists dispelling myths associated with homelessness, starting at 9 a.m. Tuesday, WMPG 90.9 FM, 104.1 FM and http://www.
Busted Fro brings hip-hop to USM
Busted Fro, the next generation of young emcees and rappers will flow into USM this week to demonstrate their innovative style of hip-hop during a hip-hop education workshop and dance party on Friday, Feb. 8.
During the workshop they will discuss the history of hip-hop and deliver their message of black pride and racial equality, according to Jessica Zambrano, Coordinator for Multicultural Student Affairs.
“Wolf” delivers thrills with nod to Hollywood
“The Brotherhood of the Wolf,” has something for almost everyone. Nearly every genre imaginable is crammed into this flick. It’s your typical martial arts, monster movie, murder mystery, period romance and political thriller.
The film’s identity crisis is not a bad sign however.
It’s okay to be loud at The Bear
When a restaurant has been around for about as long as I have, it must have something special to offer. Such is the case for The Great Lost Bear on Forest Avenue. This festive eatery and pub has been in its Portland location since 1979, according to management, and business is still going strong.
Destinations
Tuesday, Jan. 29
Open House for the Master of Social Work (MSW) Program Room 311 Masterton Hall, 4:30-6 p.m. Refreshments, faculty and staff available, info on major and social work careers. FMI 780-4120.
Pagan Students Association meeting Husky Hut, in the Brooks Campus Center, Gorham campus, 6:30 p.
Paintings made of sand …
Lobsang Samten’s sand painting is beautiful, but it is not for sale or permanent display. The sand mandala he is creating at the USM Art Gallery doesn’t even belong to him.
“It is like a cake for Mother Earth,” said the Tibetan artist. “The idea is that sand comes from Earth, so we give it back to the Earth.
Eat-it
Breakfast is said to be the most important meal of the day, and finding a place that satisfies you right to the core is hard to come by. I think I can finally say I’ve found just that place. DeVito’s Old Market Grill on Washington Avenue serves a breakfast much like one cooked in your own kitchen, and better.
“Down” portrays modern war
“Black Hawk Down” is an exciting film with so much intense action that the audience may find it almost unbearable, not just because of the tension the film produces, but because it is a horrific true story. Based on the U.S. military excursion that went wrong in the city of Mogadishu, Somalia in 1993, which killed nearly 20 American soldiers and 1,000 Somalis, the film can be very disturbing due to its unrelenting desire to truthfully depict modern warfare.
Social hour for faculty and staff
USM Thursdays begin at Bleachers
By Scott Marcoux
Art and Entertainment Editor
A chance to socialize with other faculty and staff members, a good deal on chow, and the day’s sports highlights. Welcome to USM Thursdays at Bleachers.
Bleachers Sports Bar and Restaurant, almost a part of the Portland campus for years, now offers two-for-one appetizers for USM faculty and staff 5 to 7 p.
Creative breakfast at Brea Lu Cafe
People whizzing down Forest Avenue may miss it, but Brea Lu Cafe does exist, and serves breakfast all day! The small brick building sits alone at 428 Forest with a banner running down its side that reads “BREAKFAST” in large red lettering. Inside the cafe are high tin ceilings and plenty of old varnished wood.
“Beautiful Mind” not Howard-quality,but Oscar-bound
“A Beautiful Mind” is one of those “high quality films” that the studios hold until the end of the year for the purpose of gaining little gold men. Oscar is king in Hollywood this time of the year.
Some of these studio films are very good and deserve the praise they desperately seek, but others are usually jumbled messes that show evidence of too many fingerprints.
Practice space in short supply
Brandon Turner had any easy time Tuesday finding practice space for himself and his double bass. He won’t be so lucky when classes resume this week.
Music majors like Turner are trying to cope with a shortage of practice space in Corthell Hall on the Gorham campus.
“Good Woman” chosen for theater festival
The Kennedy Center’s American College Theater Festival selected the USM Theatre Department’s production of “The Good Woman of Setzuan” as one of six finalists from New England, according to Arts Promotions Director Mary Snell.
The production will now be considered for one of six that will go on to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.
House of brews
One of Portland’s famous restaurant/breweries recently expanded to downtown Gorham. Sebago Brewing Company opened at its unique location on Nov. 21. Located in an old train station behind Hannaford Food and Drug, Sebago’s metropolitan-style atmosphere betrays its exterior with its stained wood walls and tables, large contemporary bar and high ceilings.
Destinations
Monday Nov. 12 Stress management. University Counseling Services holds group discussion about stress prevention…
New wave vaudeville
Retro’s in these days, but its influence has only been skin deep so far….
“Monsters” has a heart of gold
As children (and sometimes even as grown-ups) we’re afraid of the monsters that linger…
Musical “Meanings of Home”
In a year when tensions in the Middle East have literally exploded both here…
Eat it ….weekly restaurant review
Raw fish usually doesn’t tempt me, but I was drawn into Fuji on Exchange…
Strange dream
David Lynch’s new film Mulholland Drive is that odd dream that makes no sense…
Destinations
Monday Seek counsel. University Counseling Services offers group discussion of time management. Focus on…