CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Daryl Sabara, 17; Yasmine Bleeth, 41; Boy George, 48; Donald Trump, 63Happy Birthday: You may have to make difficult but necessary choices this year regarding some of the people in your life. It’s time to put your house in order. Sizing down in different aspects of life will alleviate stress […]

June 12: AUBURN, an open-mic night will be held at 7 p.m. at First Universalist Church, 169 Pleasant St. 783-8391 June 12: AUBURN, Carol Wise will perform at 6:30 p.m. at Holly’s Own Deli and Restaurant, 84 Court St. 333-3041 June 12: BRUNSWICK, Kate Schrock and her father, Gladden Schrock, will perform at 8 p.m. […]

The band Perpetual e-Motion, featuring fiddler Ed Howe and guitarist John Cote, will perform Friday, June 12, for an evening of traditional New England contra dancing at the Lewiston Public Library. The event will take place from 8 to 11 p.m. in Callahan Hall. Admission is $5, $2 for students. Calling will be Tavi Merrill. […]

AUGUSTA: “Historical Native American Artwork” will be featured through June 30 at the Maine Capitol Complex. 287-6746 AUGUSTA: The works of Maine artists Kay Seefeldt and Mary Beth Morrison will be featured through July 4 at Finance Authority of Maine, 5 Community Drive. Gallery hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday. 620-3540 BANGOR: “Vessels Absent: […]

The 49th annual Maine Iris Society Show will be held from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, June 13, at the Auburn Middle School. Admission is free. On display will be judged tall bearded iris, Siberian iris and various arrangements. Dwarf irises will be sold for $1 per plant starting at 1:30 p.m. For more information, […]

Two of Lewiston’s expert fly-fishermen, Charles Horbury and Henry E. Frost, spent the day at Sand Pond yesterday and caught 41 black bass of even size and making as handsome a string of fish as is usually exhibited. “Bass are now taking to the fly in fine style” remarked one of these fishermen to The […]

Friday, June 12, folk artist Brooke Brown Saracino of Massachusetts, above, will perform at She Doesn’t Like Guthries in Lewiston. She has opened for Lori Mckenna, Cheryl Wheeler, Anaias Mitchell and Chris Pureka. Saracino is celebrating her sophomore, solo-produced and recorded album, “Strangers Story.” Also playing that night will be the band Like Bells. On […]

BAGHDAD (AP) — Stephen Colbert, wearing a camouflage suit and tie, brought “The Colbert Report” — Comedy Central’s political satire in which he plays a conservative TV pundit — to hundreds of U.S. troops at Camp Victory, the U.S. military headquarters on the western edge of Baghdad. He drew rousing applause from the uniformed audience […]

The broadcast television season has come to a close, which means die-hard viewers can either gripe about the absence of their favorite shows, or gleefully embrace the guilty pleasures of summer TV. We recommend the latter. Like a good beach book, summer TV provides a chance to shift your brain to cruise control and veg […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Two live-action comedies were unable to bring down the animated adventure “Up.” Disney and Pixar Animation’s “Up” reeled in $44.2 million to remain on top of the box office for the second weekend in a row, according to studio estimates Sunday. The Warner Bros. bachelor-bash comedy “The Hangover” came in a […]