Chris Busby

2 weeks ago | thebollard.com | Elizabeth Peavey |Jessie Banhazl |Sara Hogan |Chris Busby

Joe Soley in his Old Port corner store a few years ago. photo/John DuncanJoe Soley enters the That’s My Dump! Hall of Fame “The root disease that afflicts the world at the present day is the supremacy of the commercial point of view. … The commercial mind is neither benevolent nor malevolent — as little as science is. It seems at times to be beneficent; at other times it seems to be almost fiendish — as in the case of the atrocities perpetrated on the Congo.

2 weeks ago | thebollard.com | Elizabeth Peavey |Chris Busby |Jessie Banhazl |Sara Hogan

photo/Jessie BanhazlWard McGovernAge: 66Hometown: Brooklyn, NYBar of Choice: Sacred Profane, BiddefordDrink of Choice: Dark LagerIt’s hard for a craft brewery to stand out in Maine, but that hasn’t been a problem for Sacred Profane. Since opening in Biddeford in 2022, the beer company has made a name for itself with its delicious Czech-inspired light and dark lagers, and the quality service and unpretentious atmosphere at its “tankpubs” in Biddeford and on Thompson’s Point in Portland.

2 weeks ago | thebollard.com | Chris Busby

amiright? Husk of a BodySad Cactus RecordsThe tiny bio on amiright?’s Bandcamp page sums them up nicely: “a lil heavy sometimes, a lil weird sometimes, always goofin’.” It’s that last bit that makes this indie-rock trio the most vital band in Maine, according to almost every Merriam-Webster definition of the word.

2 weeks ago | thebollard.com | Chris Busby

Dead GownsIt’s Summer, I Love You, and I’m Surrounded By Snowself-releasedIt’s been well over six years since the Portland indie folk-rock group Dead Gowns dropped their stunning New Spine EP and singer Geneviève Beaudoin’s gymnastic voice stopped the entire state in its tracks, but the band has yet to release a full-length album of new material. I don’t know why, but neither am I nosey enough to find out.

3 weeks ago | researchgate.net | Chris Busby

Uranium particulates in soil samples from the site of the Israeli bombing of HassanNasrallah on Sept 27 2024. Use of CR39 imaging technology. Novel evidence thatRecent analyses of soil samples from Gaza in 2021 showed the presence of EnrichedUranium (EU) [1]. Previously, EU was found in bomb/missile crater soil and ambulance filtersamples in Lebanon in 2006[2,3], in soil and ambulance filter samples in Gaza in 2009 [4, 5]and in hair samples in Fallujah Iraq in 2011 [6].