LEWISTON – The Franco-American Heritage Center and Bates College will present the third annual F.A.B. (Franco American Bates) Winter Dance Showcase Sunday, March 9, at the center.This year, in addition to featuring both returning and new local and regional artists, F.A.B. will host four additional artists through the Dance USA Regional Dance Development Initiative.The R.D.D.I. […]

MONMOUTH – The Monmouth Community Players will present “Little Shop of Horrors,” a 1982 Off-Broadway musical black comedy about a nerdy florist shop worker who raises a talking plant that feeds on human blood.The play, written by Howard Ashman, will be staged March 7-9 and March 14-16 at Cumston Hall.The musical was based on the […]

Film focusWHAT: “The Other Boleyn Girl”RATED: PG-13 for mature thematic elements, sexual content and some violent imagesRATING: 3 out of 5 starsRUNNING TIME: 1 hour, 54 minutes Melodrama reigns in ‘Other Boleyn Girl’ The oversexed soap opera that history remembers as “The Tudors” migrates from Showtime, the natural home to the sordidly sexual, to the […]

NEW YORK – Signs of improvement were noted today in the condition of Thomas A. Edison, who underwent an operation yesterday for mastoiditis. It was said at the hospital tonight that the inventor’s pulse and temperature were normal and that no alarm was felt. No official bulletin was issued during the evening, and Dr. Arthur […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Four more aspiring singers failed to convince viewers that they have what it takes to win the star-making talent contest “American Idol.”The voting public cut loose Alaina Whitaker, Jason Yeager, Robbie Carrico and Alexandrea Lushington, trimming the number of contestants to 16 Thursday night.Whitaker, a 16-year-old from Tulsa, Okla., let out […]

AUBURN – Bob Niles, a comedian who headlines all over New England, will appear at the Saturday, March 1, Comedy Night at The Fireside Inn & Suites.Niles performs at comedy clubs, Elks clubs, Lions clubs, country clubs, Rotary clubs – and just regular traffic rotaries. A man who’s led an unorthodox life, Niles was just […]

Members of the Mutineers, a three-piece band from southern Maine, play guitar, mandolin, acoustic bass, dobro and banjo to bring audiences traditional folk, blues and old-time country music. Their first record, “Where Mockingbirds Roam,” combines these styles to produce a collection that reveals the beauty of traditional music. They will perform from 7 to 10 […]

LEWISTON – Lisa is going to present a nice little play at The Public Theatre about her family, about growing up and about how she cured her allergies. It’s all nicely under control – but there’s her mother who’s watching the play in a housedress from her onstage living room. And she keeps interrupting. She […]

Guitarist and folk singer Jonathan Edwards, whose 1971 crossover hit single “Sunshine” became a protest anthem for the baby boom generation, will perform Thursday, March 6, at the Franco-American Heritage Center in Lewiston. Joining Edwards on stage will be Armerding Taylor on mandolin and Stuart Schulman on piano and fiddle. “We’ll play a mix of […]

Major League baseball rules changed: The privilege, previously held only by a pitcher of soiling a ball before it is put into play, was abolished by the joint rules committee of the two leagues. As the rule now stands, a pitcher may not rub a ball on the ground or any portion of his clothing […]