Big Bad Voodoo Daddy will bring its upbeat style of jazz to Discovery Park Saturday, June 21, as part of the L.L. Bean Summer Concert Series in Freeport. The band’s jumping swing style and musical repertoire is true to tradition with ’40s-style horn arrangements. Yet, the band has created a style uniquely its own. The […]

POLAND – Gearing up for a day of cultural family fun, Valhalla Festival organizers have packed Saturday, June 21, with musical acts, fine art exhibits, artisans, vendors, live animals, educational demonstrations, ethnic foods and after-hours comedy.The free annual festival has evolved around the grassroots efforts of Valhalla Fields Farm, according to organizer Emmy Andersson, who […]

Remaining showsWHAT: “Sylvia”WHO: Community Little TheatreWHEN: June 19, 20, 21 & 22. Shows are at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday.WHERE: Great Falls Performing Arts Center, Academy Street, AuburnTICKETS: $15. To order tickets, call the CLT box office at 783-0958 or log on to www.laclt.com. ‘Sylvia’ CLT […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Tim Russert’s chair was empty on “Meet the Press” on Sunday, two days after his unexpected death.But Russert was very much present on the full-hour tribute to this giant of political journalism who hosted NBC’s public-affairs program for more than 16 years.“His voice has been stilled,” began Tom Brokaw, who led […]

As the result of some very effective work in planting young lobsters by the United States Fish Commission, the lobster beds in Maine and along the northern New England coast are now showing very profitable returns and the crustaceans are accordingly getting well within reach of the ordinary pocketbook.• The first shipment of the large […]

AUBURN – The Auburn Community Band, under the direction of Milt Simon, will kick off its 27th annual summer concert series at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 18, at Festival Plaza in the downtown.This will be the first of 11 outdoor evening performances scheduled at the Main Street location. The free concerts will continue weekly on […]

AUBURN – Pearl Tibbetts Sawyer, author of six published works of poetry, will read from her latest collection, “Hope is a Red Bird” at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 18, at Percy’s Burrow in the Auburn Mall.Hope is the central issue of the poems in Sawyer’s latest collection. Several have breast cancer as their theme, which […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) – “The Incredible Hulk” was a box-office bruiser, yanking in $54.5 million over opening weekend and laying to rest the stigma of his unappreciated big-screen adventure five years ago.“The Hulk got a second chance, got angry and came back with a vengeance,” said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Media By Numbers. […]

NEW GLOUCESTER – Mainers will soon have the opportunity to experience music and art outside of today’s norm at the Maine Festival of American Music in Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village.This year’s theme is Shaker music and art, which will be displayed in concerts as well as an art exhibit titled “The Human and the Eternal: […]

ST JOHN’S, Antigua (AP) – Grammy award-winning pop singer Lionel Richie said Saturday that he and the Commodores will reunite soon for a tour.Richie said a reunion could happen in the next two years.“We better do it now, or in the next 10 years nobody would care,” he told reporters before singing at Antigua’s Romantic […]