CARTHAGE – New England Celtic Arts will host the highly acclaimed Celtic band Pogey Wednesday June 11, at Skye Theatre Performing Arts Center in Carthage and Thursday, June 12, at the Lakeside Theater in Rangeley.Both concerts will start at 7 p.m. with a preshow jam starting at 6:30. People are urged to bring their musical […]

LEWISTON – Maine native Anastasia Antonacos recalls fighting a lot with her first piano teacher, her dad, accomplished pianist Charles Antonacos.Today, an accomplished pianist and teacher in her own right, Dr. Anastasia Antonacos is a member of the piano faculty at the University of Southern Maine and Bowdoin College – and has gained a reputation […]

AUBURN – The Sexual Assault Crisis Center will host its 8th annual Celebrity Waiter Dinner beginning at 6 p.m. Friday, June 20, at Martindale Country Club.This year’s celebrity waiters are Maine Attorney General Steven Rowe; Keith Baldi and Norm Karkos of WMTW-TV; Phil Nadeau, Lewiston’s assistant city administrator; Steve Huber, physical therapist; and Brian Yokono […]

The electric cars were crowded all day Sunday. The cars to Bath, Sabattus and other outside towns were over-filled. The crowd at Lake Grove was the largest so far this season.• Digging potatoes in the spring is rather an unusual occurrence, even in famed Aroostook, but that is what D.J. Wardwell of Perham did on […]

AUBURN -Auburn resident Bobbi LaChance has not seen the faces of fellow members of her writing workshop. She is not blind. It’s that workshop members meet over the phone.Once a week, disabled writers from all over the world speak with organizer Sanford Rosenthal and various guest authors about the craft and the business of writing. […]

PORTLAND – The Maine Gay Men’s Chorus will present its 16th annual pride concert, “A Hundred Million Memory Boxes,” Thursday, Friday and Saturday, June 19-21, at the Portland Stage Company’s theater.“A Hundred Million Memory Boxes” calls attention to AIDS orphans in the United States and throughout the world.The show will begin at 8 p.m. in […]

Ah, the panda.There’s no cuter member of the animal kingdom, so why has he taken so long to land a starring role in Hollywood? The truth is, we like our cartoons to be the less attractive eccentrics: mice, rats, whatever Gonzo is.But in “Kung Fu Panda,” Jack Black’s panda isn’t cuddly; he’s an overweight dreamer […]

LEWISTON – Portland fiddler Ed Pearlman and his pianist son Neil will be the featured musicians at an evening of contra dancing Friday, June 13, at Callahan Hall at the Lewiston Public Library.The Pearlmans will be joined by banjo player and bagpiper Anthony Shostak and percussionist Alfred Lund, comprising a quartet being billed as “Highland […]

LEWISTON – “Thewlis,” the Bowdoin medical student who has appeared in Lewiston at various times, came up here from Brunswick Friday afternoon and did another of his jail-breaking stunts. He was first stripped naked by Deputy Marshal Pettingill and was then handcuffed and locked in a cell. In an adjoining cell his clothing was locked […]

LEWISTON – The reggae/funk band Gruvenwood of Bowdoin will perform Friday, June 6, at She Doesn’t Like Guthries in Lewiston. “Grüvenwood formed to create a place where we could all get together to jam, drink, create, hang-out, play-out and most of all enjoy each other and the music we make,” according to the band’s Web […]