Table of contents for week of January 21, 2005
NEWS & FEATURES
Most hunting in Maine happens on private land, and most private landowners are accommodating to those who wish to hunt on their property. But now that Governor Baldacci wants to allow hunting on Sundays, a group of landowners is saying no more. Alex Irvine spends the day with one such feudal lord.
Matthew MacDonald is a regular guy who happens to be in a wheelchair. As he explains, Portland is not only difficult for the handicapped to navigate, it's downright oppressive.
Few companies are more beloved than Google, which is exactly why it's time to print some alarmist rhetoric about our benevolent leaders and their magical search engine. As it turns out, Google keeps track of what you search for every time you use their software. And while Google themselves are probably not going to do anything evil with this knowledge, others -- say, those operating under the auspices of the Patriot Act -- are not so scrupulous. By Dan Kennedy.
Times have been tough for the Catholic church, as we're all aware. But with dioceses closing left and right, a peek behind the curtain of the church's financial picture reveals that the organization has learned nothing about transparency from its child-abuse scandals.
Plus, this just in:
UPDATE: Cohen by TKO
MUSIC SCENE: Austin comes to Portland
Politics and Other Mistakes
Bramhall Square
Letters to the editor
Savage Love
Crossword solution
MUSIC
We guess the it's called "screamo" -- you know, the type of music, popularized by bands like Taking Back Sunday and Thursday, that involves a lot of screaming but with pop sensibilities. However you want to label it, In the Arms of Providence is one of the best acts in this fledgling genre. Sam Pfeifle explains.
If you're looking for some traditional one-mic bluegrass -- and, deep in your soul, you know you are -- you can't do much better than High Range. By Sam Pfeifle.
Always in the face of the gravest tragedies are the noblest shared virtues of humanity revealed. Everyone's pitching in for the tsunami relief effort, even local musicians. By Becca Dewan.
The guitar's not dead, it was merely sleeping. Ted Drozdowski welcomes the popular resurgence of rippin' solos from artists like Eddie Van Halen and Carlos Santana.
If you're late to the ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead party, there's no better time than now to get on board, what with the release of their new Worlds Apart and all. We guarantee it's better than whatever crap you're listening to right now. By Mac Randall.
When you hear the band name Death From Above 1979, you might not expect one of the band members to sport a mustache that looks like it just stepped out of a time machine from 1979, but that's the case here. They also make music. By Mikael Wood.
Conor Oberst, a/k/a Bright Eyes, may be an emo geek, but he's an extremely successful emo geek. Camille Dodero looks at Oberst's two -- yes, two -- new albums.
Plus, Sibilance.
Also, short reviews of:
Freight Train: THE GREAT SPACE COASTER
The Chemical Brothers: PUSH THE BUTTON
Willie Hightower: WILLIE HIGHTOWER
King Crimson: THE 21st CENTURY GUIDE TO KING CRIMSON, VOLUME ONE
Various Artists: SACRED STEEL INSTRUMENTALS
The Makers: STRIPPED
Worth the Trip:
The Gentlemen at the Abbey Lounge
FILM
Peter Keough predicts who will get this year's Oscar nominations, and who will be left out.
Short reviews of:
ARE WE THERE YET?
ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13
ELEKTRA
THEATER
Take a trip back to Grover's Corners as the Children's Theatre of Maine presents Thornton Wilder's classic play Our Town. By Megan Grumbling.
Worth the trip:
The Rivals at the Boston University Theatre
The Glass Menagerie at the Lyric Stage Company of Boston
DANCE
Worth the trip:
Brian Crabtree at the Dance Complex
ART
SPACE's Light in the Dark talks place in a dark room where the only sources of light are from the artworks themselves. Teachers are going to hate taking field trips to this place.
BOOKS
Douglas Coupland's Generation X crystallized the mindset of a particular group of overeducated and and underemployed ironists. With his new Eleanor Rigby, Coupland's moment passes, according to Nina MacLaughlin.
FOOD
Few populaces embrace the concept of brunch as wholeheartedly as we do here in Portland. Who can say why? We like breakfast and we like lunch, but we love what comes in between. Now Sophia's takes on Portland's favorite meal, and Andy King has the review.
SPECIALS
Best Music Poll 2004
The Best of 2004
Portland Band Guide
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