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April 02, 2008
And the nominees are...

Spring is in bloom (in theory) and with the turning of the seasons comes an annual tradition...award season.

Local business, local artists and local musicians are all coming into focus this month and it's time to celebrate some of the things that make it pretty great to live and work in this community.

The best part is - you get to decide.

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February 13, 2008
Backstage at Portland Stage Company

When was the last time you went to the theater? When was the last time you wanted to go see a play, musical or opera?

There are a lot of entertainment options these days, some that don't even require you to leave your home.

But if it came down to seeing something at Cinemagic versus going over to the Portland Stage Company for their latest show, where would you go?

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January 17, 2008
The Fever

Consequences have actions, even the ones we don’t think about. If you take the “butterfly effect” as fact and apply it outside of science and bad Aston Kutcher films, almost anything we do must have some unintended aftermath, right?

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January 16, 2008
Band Aides
"For instance, are you willing to make the commitment to wakin' up at the crack a' noon, for deep-knee rock squats!? Seven or eight at a time!? In a row? How 'bout are you willing to make the commitment to rock-hard tasty abs washer-board style? Glistening in the sun. How 'bout are you willin' to make the commitment, wakin' up, goin' "Okay, it's gig time, what T–shirt am I gonna wear?" Can't decide...can't decide...brain aneurysm!"

- The Tenacious D, "Rock Your Socks Off"

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September 26, 2007
Live from Press Herald Plaza, it's the NXT Podcast

We here at NXT firmly believe in the adoption of advanced technologies and using them to our own nefarious ends. We're very much like a Bond villian in that regard. Let's hope we never get hold of that weather controlling device they have at the Gulf of Maine Institute, or Bowdoin's time machine.

And with that completely odd non-sequitur, readers, commentheads and innocent bystanders alike, behold, we have made a Podcast.

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Think Local

Enough with the Halo 3 news already, we get it.

Yes, we're moving on, gentle reader, to matters with significantly less galactic implications.

We're thinking local.

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September 24, 2007
The Monday Round-Up: Halo 3, Blunt Radio and Local Music

I spent a good portion of this morning trying to figure out how many blogs I was going to post today, a task made more difficult thanks to cold medication (thanks a lot fall, your creepy seesaw weather patterns are making me ill.).

In the end, I went for quality (in theory) over quantity. This is a long one, we got Halo 3, local music and youth radio on tap.

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September 12, 2007
A mild Wednesday

This one has to be quick friends. The demands of Lady Journalism are...demanding. Also, I am a little under the weather. Perhaps all this mustache growing is draining me.

If so, the only cure is red meat, cheap beer and a viewing of "Smokey and the Bandit" followed by "Over The Top."

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August 29, 2007
When friends really matter

In most people's lives a moment will come along where you realize who your good friends are and why your life is better off with them in it.

For most of us this time comes when you need help moving or getting over a vicious break-up.

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August 13, 2007
T-shirts and becoming an Internet sensation

When you come across a good local story about something you’re into, it’s hard not to get a little excited. When I first heard about Small Victory Studios my first reaction was "how sweet is that, a local company that does original T-shirts!"

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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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