USM’s Muskie School of Public Service is one of the primary recipients of “no bid” contracts awarded by state agencies, agreements that are coming under extensive review in the coming months.
The contracts are cooperative agreement with agencies, such as the Department of Health and Human Services.
The University named Lauren Reid, a Portland native and Deering High School graduate, the new women’s lacrosse coach last week.
Reid becomes the fifth coach in the program’s history and replaces Sue Frost who was at the helm for three years. Frost has accepted the women’s lacrosse job at University of New England.
Not even the previos album, Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? could have prepared us for the newly released trashy-pop funk-fest better known as Skeletal Lamping. Beyond Of Montreal’s usual tendency to evolve their genre, album-to-album, leadman Kevin Barnes pushes the envelope with hypersexuality, hyperactivity, and a very short attention span.
The Canadian collective Broken Social Scene put on a fantastic and unique show this week in our backyard. While some bands might get lost in the number of members, (more than 10!) Broken Social Scene does it right with eclectic compositions and an amazing stage presence.
This week I had the pleasure of talking with the guitarist of the popular college rock band O.A.R. (Of A Revolution). The band recently released their sixth studio album, “All Sides,” in July and it debuted at #13 on the Billboard charts. If that’s not an eye opener, then consider them playing sold-out shows at Madison Square Garden and opening for the Dave Matthews Band as solid evidence of their recent dominance.
Without a doubt our culture is fascinated by addictions. Choke focuses on a few unpleasant addictions but connects the viewer to the movie in an addictive way. The film illustrates that everyone has at least one habitual flaw.
It has been adapted from Chuck Palahniuk’s, (“Fight Club”) book of the same name and remains surprisingly by-the-book the whole way through.
As the ball scorches over the net, the triumphant and enthusiastic voice of head coach, Ashley Marble, echoes through out the gym, “Get it! Get it! Get it!” she yells to her players.
But when the ball goes out of bounds, Marble exhales a deep sigh. “Let’s do it again,” she says.
For better or for worse, the cheap-chic chain Forever 21 has moved to South Portland, opening up shop in one of the largest spaces of the Maine Mall, nestled en route between Portland and Gorham campuses.
Rumored to be a chain of child-labor-supporting, bible-thumping, sellers of clothes-that-tear-after-two-wears, Forever 21 is looking to their target market (hello ladies ages 18-24), to boost their sales.
Kindle, the northern New England Bioneers conference was hosted, among other places, at USM. Every year the Bioneers have a conference in several locations on the same weekend. The conference aims to teach its participants how culture, society, and business are connected with issues of environment sustainability.
Students have been toting the ubiquitous Nalgene water bottle around for years. Often plastered with more stickers than a VW Bus, these distinctive, convenient, and purportedly “unbreakable” containers have recently come under suspicion from public health watchdog groups and consumers as a possible source of Bisphenol-A (BPA) contamination.
Senator Susan Collins and Congressman Tom Allen squared off in their tenth senatorial debate on Thursday, at USM’s Hannaford Lecture Hall.
The debate, moderated by MPBN’s Jennifer Rooks, featured questions from the hosts, as well as those culled from e-mail submissions and video questions from Maine residents.
Jon Jennings is poised to become the president of Portland’s very own minor league basketball franchise. He’s worked as an assistant coach with the Boston Celtics and under legendary college basketball coach Bobby Knight at Indiana University.
Cheryl Hebert manages Olympic athletes.
For the Art Student Union, a student group dedicated to helping people gain knowledge of the visual arts, it was important that their art show, ‘D-I-Y,’ selected student works, be more critical and cutting-edge than in years past.
I walked though the piles of submissions from USM students in Kidder Lounge the evening after they’d been due.
As winter slowly creeps into Maine and things start to look at little drearier, I sometimes wish I had accepted that full ride badminton scholarship to Pyongyang University In North Korea.
That is, the scholarship I might have been offered if I had just taken those backyard games a little more seriously in my childhood – my grandfather claims I had a heck of a backhand.
“I use a multi-million dollar space based satellite system to hunt down tupperware containers hidden in the woods. What’s your hobby?”
Though I can’t take credit for this anonymous quote, it’s the perfect description to a growing movement of adventure seekers who do just that.
In the last few weeks, renovations of the most secret kind have been brewing underground at The Station on St. John Street. The management and booking of the club has fallen into the hands of Jason Legassie, manager of Legacy Maine, a record label and booking agency.
“I’m not a politician, I’m a community organizer,” says City Council candidate Tina Smith, as fellow candidates and voters shuffle past her on a rainy Wednesday evening, after wrapping up a lively election forum at the North Star cafe in downtown Portland.
The election is unavoidable. Everywhere you look there they are, Barack and John, spewing partisan rhetoric.
I use sports to get away from all of that; when Joe the Plumber and Joe the Vice President are too much, I tune into a game or listen to some sports banter.
You know the types of foodstuffs that tend to accumulate in cupboards that you never seem to eat, want, or need, and are not really sure how they got there? Things like cans of salmon, chopped clams, artichoke hearts, stewed tomatoes, or boxes of jello, pudding, tapioca, bouillon cubes, or those varieties of soup that maybe you bought on sale but aren’t actually that appetizing? Plus the straggler boxes of penne, linguine, spaghetti, or elbows, that all together make just about a pound? How about those frosty little tidbits from the freezer from when the kids were home from college this summer? A handful of crinkle fries, a few deformed looking buffalo wings, and some largely unidentifiable hunks of meat.
Academic departments at USM must undergo a formal review every seven years, according to UMaine Board of Trustees policy. But there is no such requirement for non-academic departments.
It’s something University President Selma Botman is looking to change.
The University has invited two external consultants to review the following departments: Advising Services, Career Services, Early Student Success, Learning Foundations, and Community Service.
Women’s Soccer
The women’s soccer team has lost five of their last six games and has been shutout in three of those contests. With losses to Western Connecticut, Framingham State, Eastern Connecticut, UMass-Dartmouth and Bates, the Huskies have watched their season record fall to 4-10-1.
“I don’t sweat, I rain.” Famous lines from the not-so-famous 1995 film, Angus. For men like me everywhere, this is our mantra. We sweat as if we were stuck in the Sahara Desert being dutch ovened by Roseanne Barr. It’s out of our grasp, we just can’t help it.
When I mention the words “Hot Suppa,” I’m disappointed when people don’t know what I’m referring to, I am talking about the one and only Hot Suppa, an eatery I’ve come to appreciate, located on Congress street a little ways up from Longfellow Square.
Perhaps the reason no one knows what I’m talking about is that Hot Suppa serves breakfast and lunch, not dinner, and many of my peers are not ready to leave the house before 2 pm.
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