Orange undersea whatnot A reader sent me a nice note to say that, while she enjoys Talk of the Town, she doesn’t always know what the heck I’m talking about. I’ve given her observation serious thought and I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to make this column more coherent and tuna fish on […]
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Street Talk: Toeing the line at Shawnaford
There are some brave hombres out there in the world. You got your firefighters busting their way into burning buildings and such. You got your city workers who crawl through sewer pipes, braving rats, mutant spiders and God knows what other subterranean horrors. You got those people who climb to the tops of cell towers […]
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Talk of the town: Are we there yet?
Lewburn Wait, what? Lewiston is sincerely considering hooking up with Auburn for reals? I’ve been hearing about this potential coupling since I first set foot in Lewiston back in whatever-year-that-was. I’ve always thought of it as mere locker room bravado talk, but now Lewiston is thinking about making an honest city out of Auburn after […]
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Talk of the town: Are we there yet?
Lewburn Wait, what? Lewiston is sincerely considering hooking up with Auburn for reals? I’ve been hearing about this potential coupling since I first set foot in Lewiston back in whatever-year-that-was. I’ve always thought of it as mere locker room bravado talk, but now Lewiston is thinking about making an honest city out of Auburn after […]
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Street Talk: Bill Webster’s got bearditude
Henceforth, it shall be known as The Bill Webster Effect. Mr. Webster, our esteemed Lewiston school superintendent, has grown a beard so epic, it has forced me to re-evaluate everything I thought I knew about facial hair, manliness and the drive train on my 2004 Ford Ranger. A beard so manly and adventurous that Ernest […]
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Talk of the town: Unskinny iHop Bop
Poirier’s Market What IS the draw of this downtown Lewiston store, anyway? Drive by at 3 a.m. on a morning that’s freezing cold and rainy and you’ll still find a pack of people hanging out in front of the store as if they’re legally required to be there. It’s a true moth-to-lamp phenomenon over there. […]
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Street Talk: Fighting the Park Street Blues
One afternoon I was having a smoke on the sidewalk in front of the paper when a man across the street suddenly jumped to the roof of a car and started screaming. “Lies!” he hollered, using his hands as a makeshift bullhorn and stomping on the roof of some poor schmo’s Celica. “Why are we […]
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Talk of the town
Doo wop So, Jon Bauman of Sha Na Na was in town this week. It’s probably for the best that I didn’t meet him – for reasons unknown, I’ve always confused Bowzer with Lenny (or possibly Squiggy) from “Laverne & Shirley.” Boy, that could have been awkward, huh? Bowzer shouldn’t take it personally, though. Turns […]
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Street Talk: ‘May you live in interesting times’
I’m going to make a prediction that I’m pretty sure is 100 percent rock solid. It is this: One day after the presidential inauguration, a time when virtually anything might happen, the world is going to be significantly worse than it was the day before. The world on Saturday will be less peaceful and more […]
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Talk of the Town: That’s what she said
Stop! I may be dreaming, but it seems that the wretched traffic light at Lewiston’s Pine and Bates streets is a little bit quicker to change from red to green these days. Of course, it couldn’t get any slower without defying the laws of physics. I have it on good authority that this particular traffic […]