2008 Woodie Awards
Vibrant performers, energetic drumming, handmade crafts, exotic foods, and a passionate speaker were housed in the Woodbury Campus center last week for the "Main Event" of the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs. The day featured a guest speaker from Dartmouth University, Peter James Morgan, who, along with his extensive research about Native Americans in the abolitionist movement, spoke about the history of African American and Native American heritage in New England.
If USM women's vaginas could dress up and talk, they would wear diamonds and stilettos and say things like "wrong hole!" and "slower!" The questions that spawned these responses were asked to those who attended the annual production of The Vagina Monologues, sponsored by the Women's Resource Center and the Student Senate.
March 3 Naked Shakespeare will be presented at The Wine Bar, the hip café in downtown Portland by Acorn Productions. If you missed the recent Naked Macbeth event at USM, you must see what the fuss about being naked is all about. Free donation/ 8pm/ The Wine Bar/ 38 Wharf St.
The Bravery headlined at The Station last Saturday, foreshadowing the March release of The Sun and The Moon Complete, an addition to their 2007 The Sun and The Moon. The show also featured Headstart, Cult Maze, Your Vegas and Switches. We arrived to The Station late and unfortunately missed the first three bands, but were just in time to catch London's own Switches.
It's a little-known fact that one of Maine's greatest musical resources is also one of USM's greatest resources. His name is Adam Ayan. Grammy-award winning Adam Ayan. That's right. Adam Ayan is a world-renowned sound engineer. And he teaches his passion to USM students as an adjunct music faculty member.
Three USM students walk into a bar - a photographer, a sculptor, and a painter. From here, things get increasingly comical, because they're meeting with John Bisbee, currently exhibiting his intense welded structures - made up entirely of nails - at the Portland Museum of Art.
It's hard to go wrong with Jack Black and Mos Def starring in your film, and Be Kind, Rewind is a perfect example of that. The latest effort from Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine, Science of Sleep) follows the same style of his previous work, but adds new dimensions of humor and reverie.
Have you been getting bored of the same old drinks? You wake up every morning and try not choke and die on that nasty pulpy OJ your roommate insists on buying. Come lunchtime at the Brooks Student Center you buy a Vitamin Water. Why? Because everyone drinks Vitamin Water! It's a flavored alternative to water! "WHOA COOL!" Also, the hip people who make it write funny things on the side of the label! "EVEN COOLER!" Vitamin Water is owned by Coca-Cola; a giant corporation.
