AUBURN – Walking into City Hall is just a bit more pleasant these days, thanks to vibrant artwork created by local middle school students displayed in entryway cases.Auburn students created cubist portraits in watercolors and mixed media images reminiscent of Georgia O’Keefe. Lewiston students’ work includes ceramics, block prints, black-and-white etchings, foil relief and creative […]

LEWISTON – Dead Season, a popular band hailing from Oxford, will headline Rave ‘n Rage 2008 Saturday, May 24, at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee. All told, eight local bands will rock the stage.Collaborators Global Spectrum, Colisee operators, and WCYY FM hope the event will become a launching point for up-and-coming local acts, moving them from […]

LEWISTON – Bates College will commemorate the 14th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda with a screening of a new documentary film by genocide survivor Gilbert Ndahayo. It will be shown at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 14, in Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave.The event is open to the public at no cost. For more […]

The Eric Green Party will play the blues live Saturday, May 10, at She Doesn’t Like Guthries, 115 Middle St., Lewiston. Band members, from left, are Jeff Merrow, Paul Bosse, Jailbird Cody and Eric Green. The show starts at 8 p.m. There is no cover. For more information, call 376-3344 or visit myspace.com/guthriesplace.

On Saturday, May 10, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., Holly’s Own Deli & Wine Bar will put on a Caribbean beach party featuring the steel drum band Steve M & the Chicks with Sticks on its newly renovated patio, weather-permitting. Members of the group are Steve McManus, Diane Mawhinney, Jan Additon and Jill Longstaff. There […]

LEWISTON – Museum L-A’s successful “Portraits & Voices: Workers of Seven Mills” exhibit will end its run Saturday, May 10, as the museum prepares for its next special exhibit.Nearly 3,000 people have viewed “Portraits & Voices,” which centers around the life stories of 45 men and women who worked in Lewiston’s textile mills. “We are […]

May 8, 15, 22: AUBURN, Mary Murphy will perform jazz and blues on the piano at 6:30 p.m. at Holly’s Own Deli and Wine Bar, 84 Court St. 333-3041 May 8: BRUNSWICK, Bowdoin students will perform music for violin, guitar, trombone, viola, piano and voice at noon at Bowdoin College’s Gibson Hall. Free 725-3747 May […]

AUBURN – The Edward Little senior class will premiere the original play “It’s Not Oregano” at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 9-10, at Community Little Theater’s Great Falls Performing Arts Center.Over the past two months, students have collaborated with playwright/director Brian Flynn to write and produce an original full-length comedy script. A corps of […]

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Auburn: Student artwork will be featured through June 15 at Auburn’s City Hall, Court Street. Augusta: Works by Irene Rothe will be featured through May 17 at the Finance Authority of Maine, 5 Community Drive. Gallery hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday. 1-800-228-3734 Bath: Ongoing exhibits “A Maritime History of Maine,” “Lobstering and the […]