NEW YORK – Color – big, bold, bright color – is one of the easiest trends to spot this fashion season. That makes the first order of business finding a shade that works for you and your wardrobe. Next, you have to find the makeup that complements it. Your inclination might be tone down your […]

Film focusWHAT: “Nim’s Island”RATED: PG for mild adventure action and brief languageRATING: 3 out of 5 stars Foster faces fears well but struggles with comedy Nim (Abigail Breslin) lives a regular Nim’s Family Robinson life on her own deserted isle in “Nim’s Island,” the reasonably delightful new kids’ fantasy film based on Wendy Orr’s novel. […]

Chloe Bergman-Ray, Melissa McLaren and Erika Lindstrom rehearse at Art Moves Dance Studio in Norway for a Friday, April 4, performance at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School as Lindstrom’s senior project. Proceeds will help set up a scholarship fund so a child can take dance classes for one year. Tickets to the 7 p.m. performance […]

LEWISTON – On Tuesday, April 8, just days after the 40th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr’s assassination, the Western Maine Labor Council will offer a free public showing of the award-winning documentary film “At the River I Stand.”The hourlong movie chronicles the 1968 struggle of 1,300 African American sanitation workers in Memphis to […]

• The automobile is for the professional man, the traveling man and for everybody that is obliged to be on the road, as it is an easy and economical way of transportation. The time is not far away when our grocers and dry goods merchants will be delivering their wares in automobiles. As soon as […]

LEWISTON – Toma Popovici, Sarita Kwok and Alexandre Lecarme – together known as the Tancrède Trio – will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 19, at the Franco-American Heritage Center.The performance is being presented in association with the Cohen Chamber Music Series at Hebron Academy.Popovici, who is a founding member of the Tancrède […]

LEWISTON – Listeners will get acoustic indie rock and folk music this weekend at She Doesn’t Like Guthries. Friday, April 4, Christopher Bell of New York will perform acoustic indie rock.Frank Hopkins of Portland will perform blues and folk Saturday, April 5. He will play songs from his newest record, “American Dream,” a fun and […]

LEWISTON – Hope Hoffman will bring original tunes, inspired by traditional Maine music, to Cafe Bon-Bon Sunday, April 6, for brunch served from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. With her fiddle, viola, guitar and voice, she shares a rhythmic and lyrical repertoire including Irish, Scottish, Cape Breton, French Canadian, Welsh and Scandinavian tunes.Hoffman debuted her original […]

FARMINGTON – The University of Maine at Farmington will feature award-winning poet Dan Chiasson Thursday, April 10, in its spring 2008 Visiting Writers Series.Chiasson will read from his work at 7:30 p.m., in The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center. The reading is free and open to the public, and will be followed by […]

SOUTH PORTLAND – Iconic British folk rock legend Richard Thompson will perform at 8 p.m. Friday, April 11, at South Portland High School.Named by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the Top 20 guitarists of all-time and the recent recipient of both an Ivor Novello Award for Songwriting and the 2006 BBC Lifetime Achievement Award, […]