• Sabering Hollywood: American Hustle (2013)

    By Sabra Schirm Christian Bale and Amy Adams deliver stunning performances in David O. Russell’s American Hustle. Conman Irving Rosenfield and his brilliant girlfriend and partner, Sydney Prosser, find themselves in a Read more

  • Low Temperatures & Tickets

    Low Temperatures and Tickets By A.S. Kinsman It turns out that even the mighty Super Bowl is vulnerable to the weather of the wild Northeast. The chosen venue to host the annual Read more

  • Lady Seawolves Host Spaghetti Dinner

    By Beacon Staff Local patrons, friends & families were treated to healthy portions of tossed salad, spaghetti, with or without meatballs in tomato sauce, garlic bread and carrot cake. The dinner raised approximately Read more

  • Athletic Spot Lights: Jose Nouchanthavong

    By Sineah McGrady Four hours north of South Portland, sits the University of Maine – Machias gym, a few Saturdays ago it filled with the SMCC Seawolves basketball teams ready to square Read more

  • The Extraordinary Adventures of a Couch Surfer

    By Erik Squire No, I’m not talking about what Tom Cruise did on the Oprah Winfrey show. There’s an amazing website for the low budget traveller called: couchsurfing.org. Couch surfing (CS) is Read more

  • Book Review: Francois Villon’s The Poems of Francois Villon

    By Patrick Doyle I’m a big fan of the risqué French poets . . . y’know, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Lautreamont, Verlaine. They all had visionary, oftentimes macabre, dazzling verses with a specific “moodiness” Read more