An encore screening of the Metropolitan Opera’s production of “Rigoletto” will be shown at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 12, at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center. Originally scheduled for Jan. 29, the simulcast was canceled due to inclement weather. Tony Award-winning director Bartlett Sher’s riveting new staging Verdi’s “Rigoletto” astounded cinema audiences worldwide […]
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Live music at Mixers this weekend
Black Rose returns to the stage at 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb 11, at Mixers Nightclub & Lounge in Sabattus. Band members are Scott Hughes (lead guitar), Michael Dick (bass/vocals), Michael Judd (percussion/vocals) and Vanessa Lynn (lead vocals). The band covers a variety of tunes including songs by Greta van fleet, Robert Palmer, Cheap Trick, […]
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NYC’s Trent Wells headlines second night of comedy at CBU
Two nights of live stand-up comedy presented by The River Comics Comedy Productions will begin at 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 11, and Saturday, Feb. 12, at Craft Brew Underground in Auburn. New York comedian Trent Wells comes to town to host Friday’s showcase pay-what-you-can tip show featuring ten-minute sets from locals Mike from Dexter […]
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Looking Back on Feb. 10
100 Years Ago: 1922 The placing of milk in the Auburn schools by Miss Whitney, R.N. is meeting with phenomenal success at the Lincoln Grammar School Wednesday, 118 half pint bottles were consumed by the children. “It’s a funny thing,” sald Miss Whitney, but many mothers declare that while their children won’t drink milk at […]
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Bridgton gallery welcomes milliner to cooperative
BRIDGTON — Gallery 302 welcomes milliner Nancy Corcoran-Murphy to its cooperative gallery at 112 Main St. The Bridgton Collection is inspired by the women in her family, rooting back to the early 1900s when her grandmother and sister attended Bridgton Academy. Her family summered in Waterford, at their camp on Bear Pond for many years, […]
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Looking Back on Feb. 9
100 Years Ago: 1922 The action of an automobile driver on Sabattus Street Friday morning, when he slowed up his machine and almost stopped to avoid hitting a dog that was playing in the street, sets an example that could well be followed by hundreds of other local automobile owners. 50 Years Ago : 1972 […]
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Livingston Taylor plans to perform in Gardiner
Livingston Taylor will take the stage at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 12, at Johnson Hall, 280 Water St. in Gardiner. He picked up his first guitar at the age of 13, which began a 50-year career that has encompassed performance, songwriting, and teaching. Born in Boston and raised in North Carolina, Livingston is the fourth […]
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Looking Back on Feb. 8
100 Years Ago: 1922 A stalled automobile at the corner of Shepley Street and Gamage Avenue, Monday afternoon created a little excitement among the youngsters of that locality. Everyone but the driver seemed to enjoy the frantic efforts of his sputtering engine. 50 Years Ago: 1972 “A happy surprised Louise Berube was crowned as queen […]
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Seyir Duo bringing Middle Eastern music to the Oasis
Middle Eastern music specialists Nathan Kolosko and Eric Laperna will perform at the Oasis of Music beginning at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 9, at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Lewiston. Known as the Seyir Duo, LaPerna and Kolosko perform music which spans from the mystic world of the Sufis to the […]
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Looking Back on Feb. 7
100 Years Ago: 1922 An Acadian screech owl, has been presented by W.H. Waterman of East Auburn to Dean F. E Pomeroy, to be mounted for the Stanton bird collection at Bates college. It seems that at the farm where the bird was found, the top rail of a board fence was painted white and […]