“Get Smart,” which began its life on TV as a classic sitcom that cleverly satirized Cold War espionage, has been transformed for the big screen into just another standard action picture.Pity, too. Because Agent Maxwell Smart himself would have made a more entertaining movie, just by picking up a camera and bumbling his way through […]

BRUNSWICK – Maine State Music Theatre will continue its 50th anniversary season this summer with the most award-winning musical ever, “The Producers.” The 12-time Tony Award-winning musical chronicles the comic adventures of Broadway producer Max Bialystock and mousy accountant Leo Bloom as they scheme to hit it rich by over-investing in a sure-fire flop.The production […]

Local jazz band Three Point Trio of Auburn will perform at Guthries in Lewiston Saturday, June 21. The trio includes John Smedley on jazz guitar, Tim Clough on upright bass and Tom Schipper on drums. The show starts at 8 p.m. There is no cover. The kitchen is always open. For more information, call 376-3344 […]

FARMINGTON – The Bellamy Jazz Band has been together for 30 years, playing New Orleans jazz and swing, entertaining audiences with its sounds and upbeat, humorous style. At 7:30 p.m., Friday, June 27, the band will perform in Nordica Auditorium at the University of Maine at Farmington.Bellamy is returning for its eighth concert in Farmington […]

BRUNSWICK – Lewis Kaplan, co-founder and artistic director of the Bowdoin International Music Festival, will launche this year’s festival Monday, June 23, with “God, Numbers, and Bach,” a talk and performance of the Chaconne from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Partita in D Minor for Unaccompanied Violin.The program will begin at 5 p.m. at Studzinski Recital Hall […]

Tea drinking was regarded as one of the feminine vices of a hundred years ago. The female spectator of that period observes: “The tea table costs more to support than would maintain two children at nurse. It is the utter destruction of all economy, the bane of good housewifery and the source of idleness.”• You […]

LEWISTON – Clara Berry of Portland will play Friday, June 20, at She Doesn’t Like Guthries on Middle Street.Berry, who is 17 years old, has been playing piano since she was 6 and has written her own songs for the past four years. Her sultry voice, accompanied by her piano playing, is reminiscent of Nora […]

Cambodian dancer Rebecca Sen will be accompanied by her father Pirun Sen, at back, in one of several ethnic dance performances as part of World Refugee Day Maine 2008 Friday, June 20, in Kennedy Park. The free public event, which begins at 3 p.m. at the Lewiston Public Library’s Callahan Hall and moves across the […]

Members of the Clef Club had one of the most successful outings in the club’s history yesterday. Eighteen members went to Lake Grove at 11 o’clock and had dinner at the Lake Grove House where one long table had been arranged for them. After an excellent shore dinner, the ladies adjourned to the grove where […]

HARRISON – Deertrees Theatre and Cultural Centre will kick off the summer season with a musical comedy about ghosts, an old theater and a small town.“In Good Spirits” is a zany farce about five mismatched ghosts stuck in limbo and doomed to haunt the theater in which, for various reasons, they died. When a community […]