The Bowdoin Orient
Volume CXXXVIII, Number 1
September 12, 2008
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Artists build animals with dump material
By RACHEL GOLDMAN, STAFF WRITERThe latest exhibit in the Coleman Burke Gallery in Fort Andross is turning one person's trash into another's artwork.
Portrait gallery in Quinby basement confronts Bowdoin?s social scene
By CAROLYN WILLIAMS, ORIENT STAFFThe graffiti that adorns the basement walls of Quinby House isn't the only art that partygoers will encounter this year.
Viewers travel through ?Passages?
By KERRY D'AGOSTINO, STAFF WRITERIf there is one thing which most Bowdoin students can agree on, it's the significance of the landscape that surrounds them.
Coldplay fails to heat up
By LOUIS WEEKS, CONTRIBUTOREvery community has its own universal icebreakers. You know, rhetorical questions or passing comments that one awkward partygoer can remark to another, silently hoping that the response will be "no hablo ingles."
Tragedy of 9/11 events inspires restorative ?Netherland?
By FRANCES MILLIKEN, COLUMNISTThe literature that has emerged from the events of 9/11 is astounding. For better or worse things of beauty are born from ashes, and in this post 9/11 era, many of the literary phoenixes are superb.
Buddha inflates art debate
By LYDIA DEUTSCH, CONTRIBUTOREvery day in the Bowdoin College Museum of Art rotunda, visitors hear a dull, roar-like snoring sound. It is the sound of the machine maintaining the air pressure of an inflatable Buddha.
Afghani portraits ?go beyond?
By ERIN K. MCAULIFFE, STAFF WRITERWhile many Bowdoin students have grown up in an age where Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda are household names, the new photography exhibit at Frontier Café will paint a much different picture of a war-torn country.
The Beer Geek: Over time, Mainers brew up innovative beers
By MAC EVANS, COLUMNISTSearching "microbreweries" on Wikipedia reveals that Maine has over 20 craft breweries per million people. Seven of these breweries can be found in Portland alone, including Shipyard, DL Geary Brewing, Gritty McDuff's, Allagash, Sebago, Casco Bay, and the late Stone Coast Portland branch.
