A year and a half ago, a summer tour with Boys Like Girls and Good Charlotte put The Maine on the radar as they released their debut album, “Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop.” This past fall, the band traveled across the country again, opening for Boys Like Girls on the OP presents tour; Cobra Starship, A Rocket to the Moon, and Versa Emerge also shared the line-up.

This fall, A Rocket to the Moon, a quartet with members hailing from the west and east coast, opened for Boys Like Girls on the OP presents tour. The band recently released their new CD, “On You Side” featuring the single, “Mr. Right.” The band’s set at the Nov.

SRU Dance presented its fall performance “Blame it On the Boogie”on Nov. 21,2009 and Nov. 22, 2009. SRU Dance is one of the largest clubs on campus and has more than 100 performers. “Blame it On the Boogie” had 26 dances and featured a special tribute to Michael Jackson.

CHICAGO – Untested? No.

Rushed into production? Not really.

Full of substances that do harm? Hardly, and especially not compared to the dangers of the H1N1 flu virus.

That is the retort of researchers, scientists, federal health authorities and others familiar with how swine flu vaccine is being made, as they listen – at times with disbelief – to the debate about it unfolding around kitchen tables and over the Internet.

NEWPORT R.I. – It started as an art project gone wrong in their freshman year of college at Salve Regina University, but today Salve students Matt Maynard and Ben Aalvik have made their clothing line, SP Anchor, into a burgeoning local business.

Aalvik and Maynard started making designs for fun, but later realized they could turn their hobby into a successful enterprise.