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The Black Magic Show (2006)

by B. J. Carter
Coastal Journal staff

By all accounts, The Black Magic Show was supposed to be an album that changed everything. Those indie-savvy enough to hear their off-kilter debut Sunlight Makes Me Paranoid figured Elefant probably had it in them to make such an album. Frontman Diego Garcia, besides being voted “sexiest frontman” by some fashion magazine, clearly had an ear for ingeniously awkward lyrical moments and lurching music that suggested a relationship to his world so tense it made him nauseous. The name-dropping commenced: Robert Smith, Morrissey, Bowie, and fellow Anglophilic contemporaries Interpol, the Killers, and the Stills. Sunlight was the Donnie Darko of the “new new wave” acts.

Maine soldier killed in Iraq

AUGUSTA – Governor John Baldacci has learned of the death of a soldier with Maine ties.
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MSSM earns top honors in Report

AUGUSTA – U.S. News and World Report ranked Maine School of Science and Mathematics in Limestone the 35th best in the nation, placing it in the top 100 high schools to earn a gold medal in its first annual ranking. Four Maine high schools earned silver medals, placing them in the top 505, and eight earned bronze medals, meaning they are in the top 1,591 high schools out of more than 18,000 in the country. The magazine reported the results in its Nov. 30 edition, which hit news stands nationwide today.

More Maine teachers gain Certification

AUGUSTA – Sixteen more teachers from across Maine achieved National Board Certification this year, including three from Topsham schools, bringing the number of teachers in the state who meet the rigorous standards to 119. Maine has the fifth highest percentage growth (60 percent) of nationally certified teachers of all the states and the District of Columbia.
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