Tag Archives: documentary

Barry Crimmins on comedy, survival, not being a hero, and his friend Bobcat Goldthwait

Barry Crimmins is a legendary comic and activist who will doing standup at Blue on December 28th. The show was organized by Portland Comedy Co-Op, who Crimmins describes as a “good bunch of people doing great things for comedy in Maine.” Content Warning: Rape A pioneer in the early Boston standup scene, he was around for […]

Maine, Thankfully: Donna Galluzzo, Executive Director of Salt Institute

For this installment of Maine, Thankfully, I talked with Donna Galluzo, Executive Director of Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Salt is a non-profit school in Portland, Maine that offers semester-long intensive programs in documentary writing, radio, photography and new media.   I have long been an appreciator of Salt. I have had many friends who […]

Bryan Bruchman discusses his Lady Lamb the Beekeeper documentary

Photos: Bryan Bruchman and Aly “Lady Lamb” Spaltro (by Bryan Bruchman) I met former Portland musician and Maine music scene cheerleader Bryan Bruchman to talk about Lady Lamb the Beekeeper: Return to Home, his new documentary about Pine Tree State indie darling Aly Spaltro at Piano’s in New York’s Lower East Side. He was throwing […]

A chat with a 9-year-old water liberation activist

I met Luke Sekera-Flanders while interviewing his mother Nickie about her involvement with Burma activism a couple of years ago. He was 6 then and I knew him to be wonderfully smart, driven, and very funny. I recently caught a video of Sekera-Flanders at the Maine Public Utilities Commission, where he was testifying against the proposed […]