These perky little flowers These perky little flowers look vigorous and healthy by the sun’s ray of warmth. Their brilliant colors are exploding like the fireworks on July fourth. Their tiny blossoms have bloomed into yellow, white, and red flowers. The bees are hovering like tiny helicopters over these perky little flowers. These perky little […]

BRUNSWICK — Maine State Music Theatre presents SHREK THE MUSICAL, JR., appearing on the MSMT stage Aug. 17, 2015 at 11 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m., and a special showing at 7:30 p.m. Based on the Oscar-winning DreamWorks Animation Motion Picture, SHREK JR. is part romance and part twisted fairy tale and an irreverently fun show […]

Mainers are spoiled for choice when it comes to art galleries. We here in the mountains no less so than our swankier siblings in the toney coastal towns. Right now I’d like to draw our attention to an exciting show that has just opened in Kingfield, at Ulrike Stadler’s gallery. The Stadler Gallery has been […]

There is one good joke in the new Terminator Genisys, demonstrating the rule that you can walk into any room in any building in the world if you’re carrying a four-foot-tall teddy bear. It’s a good joke, but it goes on for too long. The other jokes in the movie are not funny, which is […]

Summer Brings Summer brings; The lush green grass bursting forth reaching for the clear-blue sunny sky. Over-anxious honeybees looking for nectar buzzing quickly by. Hazy, lazy, and hot days of summer perfect for swimming, fishing, and camping. School kids on summer vacation playing non-stop from morning til evening. Summer brings; Blooming flowers spraying their pleasant […]

It’s very satisfying to see our old friends out at the Temple Stream Theater cranking up some performances for the summer and fall, and equally exciting that they’re involving their fantastic Upside Bakery next door with its beautiful wood-fired brick oven. (I’d call it by that old-fashioned term, an “ordinary” because it’s not exactly a […]

FARMINGTON — The City Lights North free summer dance program will conclude this coming Saturday, July 11th, with a show from 7-8 p.m. courtesy of the Emery Theatre at UMF. It will feature Farmington-area and Boston performers co-presenting dance, song, and a bit of acting, with choreography by Russell Ferguson, Adrienne Hawkins, Tiara Andersen, and Duggan […]