TURNER – Leavitt Area High School’s entire first floor will be turned into a giant art gallery Thursday, March 27, during the 9th annual Arts Gala when more than 300 art students will display their work or perform.“No one (public school) does an art show of this magnitude in the state,” said Ronnie Decker, one […]

PORTLAND – Author Monica Wood will read from her novel in progress and speak about the creative process Thursday, April 3, as part of the University of New England’s Maine Women Writers Collection spring lecture series.The event will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Sarton Room in the Abplanalp Library on the […]

INDIANOLA, Miss. (AP) – B.B. King is the new owner of a juke joint in his Mississippi Delta hometown.Mary Shepard has owned Club Ebony in Indianola for the past three decades. King and other artists have played there throughout the years.A Mississippi Delta Blues Trail Marker outside Club Ebony says Count Basie, Ray Charles, James […]

HOUSTON (AP) – Grammy-winning Tejano singer Emilio Navaira was critically injured Sunday when his band’s bus crashed on a highway in the metro area, city and hospital officials said.Navaira and his band Rio had performed at a Houston nightclub on Saturday night. At about 5 a.m. Sunday, the band’s bus slammed into traffic barrels on […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Marissa Jaret Winokur didn’t have to be swayed into being on “Dancing with the Stars.”“I keep hearing these stories how people turned it down a few times,” Winokur said at the William S. Paley Television Festival on Friday. “I banged on their doors. ‘Please let me do this show. Please! Please! […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Audiences are still listening to Horton and his Who pals.“Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who,” 20th Century Fox’s animated adaptation of the beloved children’s book, remained the top movie for a second straight weekend with $25.1 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.Featuring the voices of Jim Carrey and Steve Carell, the […]

• Although the ground is covered with snow deeper than at any time during the winter, the spring migration of birds is at hand. During the present month, usually not far from the tenth to the twentieth, the first flocks of bluebirds, robins, song sparrows and others always begin to make their appearance in southern […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) – It seems almost everybody wants a piece of Britney Spears, and at least six pieces are officially for sale.Spears’ wardrobe from her guest-starring stint on CBS’ “How I Met Your Mother” will be sold at an online auction to benefit the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental organization.The weeklong auction begins […]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Dolly Parton knows a good investment when she sees one, and these days she sees one in the mirror.Parton, whose business portfolio includes a theme park and an entertainment production company, says she’s spending a lot of her own money trying to get back on country radio with her new CD, […]

STORY SO FAR: Having just escaped armed smugglers, Aaron and his fellow kayakers encounter gargantuan waves. Dad tells tale of ‘root people’ “Brace!” Dad yelled. We dug our paddle blades into the breaking wave and held them flat. We were swamped, but managed to push ourselves upright. Then we paddled like crazy toward Goose Island.We […]