SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) – If at first you don’t succeed at stealing Bob Dylan’s hat, try a kiss instead. A young Brazilian woman rushed onstage during Dylan’s encore in Sao Paulo on Thursday night, hugging and kissing him and trying to swipe his Cordoba hat before three bouncers whisked her away. When he finished […]

FARMINGTON – Lee Sharkey, author of “A Darker, Sweeter String,” will give a reading and sign books at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 13, at the Farmington Public Library. The reading was snowed out Feb. 13.Sharkey’s poetry explores cruelty, violence and war – drawing imagery from Israel/Palestine, Somalia, the Balkans, Iraq and small-town U.S.A., as well […]

GARDINER – The Open Book Players with present “Under Milk Wood,” a play for voices written by Dylan Thomas, Saturday and Sunday, March 15-16, at Johnson Hall.A moving and funny account of a spring day in a small Welsh coastal town, “Under Milk Wood” begins with dreams and ghosts before dawn, moves through the brilliant, […]

“Smashed,” a film calling attention to underage drinking premiered by the Lewiston Youth Advisory Council last October, will be shown Wednesday, March 12, at the Lewiston Public Library. The free 7 p.m. showing in Callahan Hall was rescheduled from February due to inclement weather. The 25-minute film recently received state approval for use in driver’s-education […]

LEWISTON – Pianist Max Levinson, whom the BBC Music Magazine described as “a master in the making,” will perform Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor with the Midcoast Symphony.Performances will be at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 15, at the Franco-American Heritage Center in Lewiston; and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, March 16, at the […]

NEWRY – March at Sunday River Ski Resort will bring entertainment by way of rainforest reptiles, handmade marionettes and a performance artist known to juggle five ping-pong balls thrown 20 feet into the air, using only his mouth.Saturday, March 8, iguanas, lizards, boa constrictors, American alligators and others in the Rainforest Reptile Show will crawl […]

FARMINGTON – The SAD 9 music department will present several concerts in celebration of the Music Educators National Conference March 2008 Music in Our Schools Month. All concerts are free and open to the public.Thursday, March 13, the district’s Chorus Festival will be held at 7 p.m. in the Mt. Blue High School gymnasium. Featured […]

• One of the largest seizures of beer made for sometime in Lewiston came Thursday afternoon when deputy sheriffs Leonard and Luce made a haul of 350 bottles and 56 gallons of beer in bulk at the Lower Maine Central depot. The stuff was consigned to the Langley Transportation Company, whose stuff had by seized […]

BROWNFIELD – The second annual concert for the Brownfield Food Pantry will take place at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 8, at the Brownfield Community Church.Featured will be folk singer Katherine Rhoda who along with her voice will bring a Marxophone, violin-guitar and Lithuanian kankles; Ken and Laurie Turley with original songs and covers in jazz, […]

AUBURN – The Pleasant Note Coffeehouse will celebrate its second anniversary of free, monthly open-mic nights Friday, March 14, with an optional Irish theme.Area residents have come to share songs, music, the spoken word – even some dog tricks. For this month’s event, participants are urged to perform Irish music if they would like. Refreshments […]