Hey there everyone! Kora, at your service. As of this issue of The Beacon, I will be taking over this wonderful pro-active advice column from Miss Tiffany Crockett, who has graciously passed […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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” […]
Enough is Enough: the Death Penalty must Die
By Richard Sawyer We have all heard the phrase “Eye for an eye” from Leviticus before. This is an age-old quote that is clearly older then the Bible itself. It is a […]
We Be Burnin’ Not Concernin’
By Erik Squire In the last edition of The Beacon, Richard Sawyer wrote on the pros of legalizing marijuana, his observations are not far off from what I believe. However for the […]
A Summer with the Maine Conservation Corps
By Garrick Hoffman Want to work outdoors for a season or two? How about packing on some serious muscles that would make the average Planet Fitness member wonder how you did it? Would […]
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