BRUNSWICK – The Oratorio Chorale, under the direction of Peter Frewen, will offer an uplifting midwinter concert displaying the partnering of brass, winds and voices in the music of Anton Bruckner and Giovanni Gabrieli.The concert will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 8, at First Parish Church Brunswick and at 3 p.m. Sunday, March […]

FARMINGTON – Wanted: would-be scallywags.Insyt New Media, an award-winning interactive marketing company, is seeking actors to audition for roles in a national TV commercial for Buccaneer Blends, a new line of all-natural, premium barbecue and steak sauces.The casting call will be from 1 to 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 29, at Insyt New Media’s headquarters at […]

PORTLAND – The past several years have seen more and more comic book characters make the jump to TV and the big screen and dozens of works of fiction go from the page of text to a page of storytelling art. Stephen King’s “Gunslinger,” Laurell K. Hamilton’s “Anita Blake” and so many more have received […]

NORWAY – Norway Open Mic Night will celebrate “The Leap Year Day That Doesn’t Exist” Friday, Feb. 29, at the First Universalist Church.Sign-up for performers begins at 6:30, with open mic beginning around 7 p.m. Admission is $3; refreshments will be available. Performers of all ages are urged to bring and share their acoustic instruments, […]

“Remember Me?” by Sophie Kinsella; Dial Press Hardcover; 389 pages; $25Lexi Smart is living a fantasy. She woke up from an accident to find herself rich, successful and married to a smoking hot man.The only problem is that she can’t remember how she got to this happy place in life. Amnesia after a car accident […]

GORHAM – Piano students at the University of Southern Maine School of Music will present two free Sunday afternoon concerts featuring all piano concerto music.Among the students performing will be Danielle Tran of Norway, who will play the Allegro movement from Mozart’s Concerto in D Minor. Tran will perform at the second concert scheduled to […]

• The consolation of the three Narrow Gauge railroads in Franklin County has started a revival of the old stories about the building of a line from Winslow to Farmington to connect those roads with the Narrow Gauge Road running from the former town to the sea at Wiscasset. There are some straws which indicate […]

NEWRY – What do a magician, zany jugglers, a crazy circus act and a psychic entertainer have in common? They are all part of a cabin fever cure courtesy of the Black Diamond Family Entertainment Series at Sunday River.The remedy will begin with the Magic of Lyn on Feb. 26, followed by Fusion on Feb. […]

FARMINGTON – Award-winning fiction writer Katherine Min will be the second reader in the University of Maine at Farmington’s spring 2008 Visiting Writers Series Thursday, March 6.She will read from her work at 7:30 p.m. in The Landing in UMF’s Olsen Student Center. The reading is free and open to the public, and will be […]

GARDINER – The Portland Chamber Music Festival’s fifth annual concert with nationally known musicians will be held Friday, Feb. 29, at Christ Church Episcopal, courtesy of Johnson Hall Performing Arts Center.On the program: Franz Joseph Haydn, Trio for Flute, Piano, and Cello in D major, Hoboken XV:16; Heitor Villa-Lobos, The Jet Whistle for Flute and […]