Congress Streets non-profit arts and music venue SPACE Gallery kicked off their unjurried show of local artwork last Friday, providing a few USM art students and employees with their first opportunity to show in a gallery outside of campus.
The show, titled “Free For All 2” is the second unjurried show that SPACE has hosted.
As a college student in Portland, it can be hard to find a restaurant that fits your budget. With books to buy and student loans to pay off, who has the money? If you’re looking for affordability, good service and great food, Silly’s Restaurant, at 40 Washington Ave.
“Sherlock Holmes” is a film of both wit and action, with a plot line that is gripping right up to the credits, and one-liners you’ll be quoting for days. Holmes, played by Robert Downing Jr. “Iron Man, The Soloist”, reopens a case, as the sorcerer Lord Blackwood, played by Mark Strong “Body of Lies”, appears to have come back to life to destroy England after Dr.
An adult-themed hypnotist performed some shockingly lewd mind games on a group of student volunteers in the Brooks Student Center last Thursday. The show, which was attended by a rather large audience, was last week’s installment of the Gorham Events Board’s weekly event series, Thirsty Thursday.
FP: First of all, what made you choose USM over other schools? Was it mostly the academics, or more towards the hockey side? You’re from New Hampshire, were you getting a lot of offers there and in other parts of New England?
ZJ: I chose USM because it was the best blend of academics and hockey competition around.
When the temperature drops and the ice freezes over on Maine’s thousands of ponds, one can make the assumption that the only thing to do is lace up the skates and throw the puck down for a good game of pond hockey.
Pond hockey isn’t just any old game; it’s a tradition that stretches far beyond points and goal records, or penalty minutes for that matter.
The USM women’s hockey team looked to continue their sharp play coming off a 5-2 victory over St. Michael’s, but the UMass Boston Beacons were too much for the Huskies as they dropped an ECAC Conference match-up 5-4 in Gorham on Friday.
The Huskies controlled the tempo of the game until the Beacon’s got on the scoreboard with five minutes to go in the opening period on a goal from junior Rachel Sousa.
In a key LEC Conference match-up last Tuesday at Hill Gymnasium, Plymouth State University proved to be too much in the end for USM as the Panthers came back from nine down midway through the second half to edge the Huskies 73-69.
Plymouth improves to 4-2 in the LEC and 11-5 overall with the win, and USM drops to 0-6 in the conference and 2-14 overall.
Police have not established Ann Brushwein’s cause of death and are awaiting results from the Medical Examiner’s office in Augusta. They are not classifying her death as suspicious.
According to the independent analysis conducted by accountant Howard Bunsis, both USM and the University of Maine System have positive revenue streams, healthy cash reserves and low levels of debt.
Supporters of USM’s German studies program are planning to protest on Wednesday the University’s intention to cut the major due to a lack of enrolled students.
Six former USM employees say they lost their jobs because of age discrimination during the recent consolidation of student services.
A campaign to change the allocation of funding between schools of the University of Maine System may be gaining traction after the Faculty Senate voted unanimously on Friday to support the student-led resolution.
Students concerned with the effects of a mass restructuring of USM and the University System voiced their concerns last Thursday in a forum organized by the We Vote Coalition.
Roughly fifteen people protested outside The Front Room restaurant on Congress Street in Portland last Friday night, after owner Harding Lee Smith refused to meet with employees and workers’ advocates who say he violated Maine and federal labor laws.
This newspaper has done more in defining my college experience than anything else I have been involved in.
These days we can get a lot done from the comfort of our computer chair. We can pay our bills, get a degree, find a job, find our soul mate or simply buy another computer chair.
Modern society has chosen to do these activities online in the name of convenience.
We have a running joke-albeit a dark one-that The Free Press is one devoted person away from not coming out each week. It would be funny if it weren’t true.
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Portland resident Ben Bishop is living out every 12-year-old boy’s dream – drawing comic books, designing action figures and making his living doing it.
Bishop celebrated the reissue of his first graphic novel, “Nathan the Caveman,” at Coast City Comics during last week’s First Friday Art Walk.
Medeski, Martin & Wood, a jazz-fusion trio from Brooklyn, brought some hot funk jams to the Port City Music Hall on the first snowy evening of the year, last Saturday, Dec. 5. The band played without an opener, grooving almost nonstop for three hours with only a twenty minute break in between their two sets.
Memo to humanity: the world is not going to end.? Do not be alarmed by the hype that has surrounded the new action-pack from Roland Emmerich, the man that brought us such explosive blockbusters as “Independence Day” and “The Day After Tomorrow.”? Please calmly remain seated and remember, this is not a documentary.
The majestic pine trees and graceful waterways of the forests of Maine have inspired and captivated American writers and artists for centuries. The exhibit currently on display in the Woodbury Campus Center in Portland traces that captivation back through the last two centuries, bringing together work from four different moments throughout the last 145 years.
Located in the Rangeley Lakes region, Maine’s third largest ski area is a little more out of the way at 2.5 hours from Portland. For those willing to make the trek, it’s a hidden gem of the western mountains that, since coming under new ownership in 2004, Saddleback has installed two new lifts, cut six new trails, debuted an overhauled base lodge, and just recently finished the 44 acre Casablanca glades, the biggest in the East.
When USM Athletic Director Al Bean and his staff got together for their annual summer meeting, they decided something needed to be implemented to showcase the university’s athletic teams better. That’s when they made a group decision that USM sports need to be broadcasted live in online streaming video.