TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2011
VOL. 3 NO. 9
PORTLAND, ME
PORTLAND’S DAILY NEWSPAPER
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College program explores sexual consent BY MATT DODGE THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN
Two Bowdoin alums — tired of what they felt were formulaic sexual assault presentations staged for year after year of college freshmen — have created their own crash course in what constitutes consent. This spring, the group will begin presenting their Speak About It program at colleges throughout the region, starting today with performances on University of Southern Maine’s Portland and Gorham campuses.
“Consent can be so sexy, telling your partner what you like, how you want it. It’s not scary or a mood killer at all.” — Shana Natelson, Bowdoin alumnus and writer/producer of Speak About It The sexual assault education and prevention program, written by college students for college students, is a combination of skits, interactive dialogue
and monologues aimed at starting conversations about sex and shifting perceptions about consent both off and on campus. “We just want to put on a more positive, empowering, ‘it’s okay to scream yes’ kind of show with a combination of informative and interactive skits with fun and funny dialogue,” said Shana Natelson, Bowdoin alum and writer/producer of Speak About It. see CONSENT page 16
Chef of the year plans West End French bistro BY DAVID CARKHUFF THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN
C’est vrai! The Maine Restaurant Association’s Chef of the Year for 2011 is venturing into the West End with a new lunch and dinner French bistro. In 2007, when Steve Corry won best new chef of the year from Food & Wine magazine, Corry wrote about what his next restaurant would be: “A true French bistro/brasserie. I’d do it right down on the water. Raw bar, steak frites, steak tartare. Portland would eat it alive.” Well, the restaurant won’t be right down on the water, but it should draw crowds in the West End, Corry said Friday while overseeing renovations at 190 State St., formerly Evangeline restaurant, on Longfellow Square. see BISTRO page 8 LEFT: Steve Corry, a chef-owner innovator in Portland with the restaurant 555, plans to open a new French bistro on the West End. “The West End is full of the clientele that we’re hoping will come on a regular basis,” Corry said. (DAVID CARKHUFF PHOTO)
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How an Internet skeptic bought ‘social buying’ BY CURTIS ROBINSON THE PORTLAND DAILY SUN
Many of us who remain bitterly skeptical of Internet business were not born this way. Indeed, many of us were among those cherrycheeked pioneers from the dial-up age, chasing fantas-
A hand in the tip jar See Bob Higgins’ column on page 4
tic “gateway” strategies and certain that we were the next Amazon.com or Friendster or whatever.com. But remember that our bubble burst at the turn of the century, even the Millennium Bug — which our techie friends assured us was coming for sure so why not run up the VISA card? — only left us with a base-
ment full of canned tuna and left-over shotgun ammo. I actually won an Edgy — sort of a newspaper Internet Grammy — in the late ‘90s as content director for Aspen.com, maybe the world’s first community Internet site. We had five Colorado newspapers that were see BUYING page 5
What’s the dish that really defines you?
Doug Varone and Dancers coming to Portland
See Margo Mallar’s column on page 6
See the Events Calendar, page 13