Monday Fix: Catch and release, The Movies, "Blue Eyed" and Doogie
What you may or may not have missed over the weekend. Grab a snack and sit down for the Monday Fix.
ITEM 1: Born Free: A lobster's story
- Although we have plenty of lobsters around here (and plenty of lobstermen who need to unload their catch), those lovable, pesky, do-gooder activists wanted to release one into the wild. This one, weighing in at 20 pounds, named "George" had been a "guest" at a Manhattan restaurant for a decade. And PETA thought it was his time to go into retirement. Great sentiment, but they realize he's probably going to end up back in a tank or on a plate, right?
- A sad day Sunday when The Movies on Exchange had its final showings. The art house cinema has been around longer than I've been alive, but decided to hang things up last month. Technically speaking they'll be living on in another capacity, moving over to the Portland Museum of Art to screen movies on the weekends. So while that may be better than nothing, it's not the same. Personally, I think we just lost out on even more small, indie movies coming to town. But that's just me.
ITEM 4: A contrast in blue and brown
- Over on SPACE Gallery's blog, they preview their showing of the documentary "Blue Eyed" and the confluence of events around race in America during the month of January. If for some reason you never knew about this or it never came up in class, "Blue Eyed" takes a look at Jane Elliot's Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes exercise, which puts a spin on racism (not to mention other "isms" in America) in a seemingly simple classroom experiment. Tomorrow SPACE and the local branch of the NAACP will show the documentary and hold a discussion on race relations in Maine and America, as we prepare to swear-in the first African American president a day after the holiday named for one of the country's greatest civil rights leaders.
ITEM 5: Return of the Doog
- Because I had to go out on a high note. In case you did not catch "Saturday Night Live" this weekend, you missed Neil Patrick Harris' returning to his roots in this orchestral version of a classic TV theme song. It's posted on YouTube, so watching while you can before it gets yanked. Enjoy.
Justin is a former newspaper intern and has the scar tissue to prove
it. Justin has been a staff writer for the Portland Press Herald/Maine
Sunday Telegram since 2003, and in 2004 began writing a weekly column in the
Monday Magazine.
If he had to pick a label, the column would fall under "youth culture,"
covering everything from high school dance etiquette, dealing with college
debt, the resurgence of Roller Derby and Portland's one-of-a-kind music
scene. This of course has not stopped him from answering letters to Santa
Claus or writing about his experience riding shotgun in a drift car.
Justin is an export from the Midwest. He is a graduate of the University of
Missouri and is originally from Minnesota. He enjoys bacon, cheap beer,
redheads, Burt Reynolds jokes and wondering what the soundtrack to his life
would sound like.
When he grows up he wants to be an international art thief. Or Captain
America.
Until then he'll be bringing you dispatches about "the young people" and
what they do.
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