Street talk Archives - Lewiston Sun Journal

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Street talk

Published
August 29, 2023

Mark LaFlamme: Nice Day. Think it’ll rain?

Street Talk: The rain clouds themselves seemed particularly sly and malicious this summer, waiting to pounce on you and your plans like a cat on a field mouse.
Published
August 16, 2023

Mark LaFlamme: Confessions of a TikTok virgin

Street Talk: That's the thing about this whole explosion of communication services. If all the best sources are hanging out on one of those newfangled apps and webpages, I have to be there, too.
Published
August 8, 2023

Mark LaFlamme: Today’s bug mystery: Giant mosquito? Or Maine mutant?

Street Talk: And so instead of dealing with shootings and car wrecks and tales of pain and woe at the end of the week, I spent my time on the tail of a menacing creature of unknown origin.
Published
August 1, 2023

Mark LaFlamme: Prime rib in pill form, please

Street Talk: We've got supercomputers small enough to tuck into our pockets. We've got bug-looking cameras that fly around in the sky and we've got artificial intelligence writing term papers and composing music. All of that and yet no food in pill form to eliminate the need for inconvenient eating.
Published
July 18, 2023

Mark LaFlamme: The rock, the rattle and other works of Lewiston art

Street Talk: It remains to be seen if the people of Lewiston will ever grow to love "the rock" in Kennedy Park like they've grown to love the zebra on the Canal Street parking garage.

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Published
July 12, 2023

Mark LaFlamme: There are ghosts walking among us

Street Talk: Unsolved deaths of a suspicious nature are specters that gnaw at the collective memories of the community. They haunt and haunt and haunt.
Published
July 5, 2023

Mark LaFlamme: An identity stolen and not a soul to help

Street Talk: The biggest horror of them all in this sordid affair is that there seems to be no one in the world at all able or willing to extricate Riley from the ongoing nightmare.
Published
June 28, 2023

Mark LaFlamme: Suicide’s unwitting players have to live with the trauma

Street Talk: I'll never understand why a person would want to end his own suffering by inflicting suffering upon another.
Published
June 20, 2023

Mark LaFlamme: Do you want to be an award-winning reporter? Write this down.

Street Talk: One-on-one interviews may not be the meat and potatoes of a news story, but they are definitely the carrots and peas.
Published
June 5, 2023

Mark LaFlamme: What to yell in a crowded theater?

Street Talk: Fire is one of the most powerful forces on earth and yet, at best, we have two synonyms suitable for use when writing about it.