Alex Spear

Apr 12, 2024 | bowdoinorient.com | Sara Coughlin |Alex Spear

Pacing the streets of Brunswick over the course of a single night, a college kid searches for his missing lottery ticket—a single piece of paper worth $250 million. If he finds it, his life changes forever, but what he would do with it he is not sure. A meditation on choice, responsibility and life as a first-generation American and student, “Lucky Night,” a short film written and directed by Eduardo Mendoza ’24, finished filming last week.

Nov 17, 2023 | bowdoinorient.com | Janet Briggs |Alex Spear

Whether it is 200 wooden pallets or a new brunch spot, Mike Jerome always seems to have a plan. What, other than being Brunswick food staples, is the through line between Fat Boy Drive In, Bolos Kitchen and Burger Bar, and Brunswick’s Portland Pie Company? Mike Jerome. From Edinburgh, Scotland to Brunswick, Maine, Jerome seemingly always finds some endeavor to keep him busy.

Oct 27, 2023 | bowdoinorient.com | Marc Rosenthal |Alex Spear

On Tuesday night, Bowdoin welcomed Deborah Dash Moore, a professor of history and Judaic studies at the University of Michigan, to a crowded Kresge Auditorium as this fall’s Harry Spindel Memorial Lecture. Since 1977, the Spindel lectureship has brought Jewish artists, writers and academics who study Jewish topics to Bowdoin.