This F4U Corsair will be one of the featured aircraft performing at the Owls Head Transportation Museum’s annual Transportation Spectacular Saturday & Sunday, July 26-27, in Owls Head. The Corsair will be on display at the museum several days before the event. For more information, call 594-4418 or visit www.owlshead.org. Thomas K. Dudley photo

LEWISTON – Lewiston Public Library will present “Knitting Out Loud,” an hourlong program of stories and readings, at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 17, in Callahan Hall. Veteran knitter and raconteur Kathy Goldner will take listeners on an arm-chair journey through the world of knitting past and present, illustrating the voyage with photographs, knitted items and […]

OGUNQUIT – The Ogunquit Playhouse will stage the most Tony Award-winning musical of all time, Mel Brooks’ “The Producers,” July 16 through Aug. 9.The smash-hit comedy revolves around producer Max Bialystock and his hapless accountant, Leo Bloom, who try to oversell a Broadway flop only to incur complications when the show unexpectedly turns out to […]

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) – Actors Josh Brolin and Jeffrey Wright, along with members of a crew filming an Oliver Stone movie, were arrested during a bar fight Saturday morning, police said.Shreveport police Sgt. Willie Lewis said Brolin, Wright and five others were arrested just after 2 a.m. at a club called the Stray Cat bar.A […]

LEWISTON – Canadian organist Michele Quintal will give a concert at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul from 12:15 to 12:45 p.m. Wednesday, July 16.Quintal received her musical training at the Quebec Conservatory of Music in Montreal, at the Geneva Conservatory and at the Vienna Academy of Music in Austria. She was privileged to […]

AUBURN – When Jenifer LeClair boarded her first windjammer in 1995 in Rockport for a weeklong sailing cruise, she had no idea her destiny was also tied to that ship and the others on which she would subsequently sail.Thursday, July 17, at 6:30 p.m., the author will be at Percy’s Burrow in the Auburn Mall […]

Conditions for the first six months of 1908 forecast one of the least profitable seasons in more than a quarter of a century for the lumbermen of Maine. The market is flat and without life, the tide water mills through the state, with few exceptions, are closed down and the survey of lumber at the […]

POLAND – Music by MAGIC, a vocal and instrumental group specializing in easy-listening standards from the 1930s through the ’70s, will perform Monday, July 14, at All Souls Chapel.Its members have a long history of musical performances in central Maine. As a young percussionist, Conrad Soucy played in local rock bands in the 1960s and […]

BRUNSWICK – As part of its 50th anniversary season, Maine State Music Theatre will present “All Shook Up,” featuring and inspired by the music of Elvis Presley, from July 16 through Aug. 2 at Pickard Theater.The show follows the story of Natalie, a young female mechanic who dreams of hitting the road, and her love […]

OQUOSSOC – Rangeley Friends of the Arts will present a candlelight concert, featuring classical guitar, flute and voice by Sue Downes-Borko and Victor Borko, Tuesday, July 22, at Log Church.Downes-Borko received her music-education degree (flute) from the University of Massachusetts. She has been teaching piano and flute lessons for more than 20 years in addition […]