FARMINGTON – Lincoln Auditorium on the University of Maine at Farmington campus will be filled with panic-stricken comedy Friday and Saturday, May 1-2, courtesy of Teachers Lounge Mafia.The improv troupe’s new show, “Mayday! Mayday!,” features a collection of all-original improv and sketch comedy designed to help audiences escape the last trappings of mud season.There will […]

Wolfcreek, a Maine band whose music encompasses deep Southern rock roots and an edgy, new country style, will play Saturday, May 2, at Black Mountain in Rumford. Wolfcreek performs original songs, written by lead singer Todd Deming and Dan Matthews, who plays bass guitar and provides back-up vocals. It also plays covers of bands such […]

SEBAGO – The Obsessive Comedy Disorder will present “The Three Aliens Interactive Radio Show” Friday, May 1, at Schoolhouse Arts Center. “The Case of the Missing Mother Ship,” written and directed by Keith Halliburton, revolves around three aliens trying to locate the missing Mother Ship.The 7:30 p.m. show is geared toward the entire family. Audience […]

BRUNSWICK – Ron Carroll and Friends will present a concert featuring songs from yesteryear at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 3, at Crooker Theater.The program includes songs by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Hoagy Carmichael, Ira and George Gershwin and other great composers of the 1930s and ’40s. Among them are “Stardust,” “Wunderbar,” “Anything Goes,” “Someone to […]

LEWISTON – Three local high-school groups will come together Saturday, May 2, to sing a cappella at the Olin Arts Center at Bates College.Performing at the Joining Voices concert will be Vocal ELoquence from Edward Little High School, Auburn; Diaboli Musicae from Lewiston High School; and The Mt. Blue Voices from Mt. Blue High School, […]

RUMFORD – On Friday and Saturday, April 24-25, the Rumford Association for the Advancement of the Performing Arts will present three one-act comedies, capped off with a choral review performed by the RAAPA Choir, now in its 40th year.Plays will include “Who Shot Willie?,” a murder mystery/comedy featuring Barbara Arsenault, Connie Venskus, Wayne Landry, Rhonda […]

SALEM – Mt. Abram High School will present “Uncool,” a one-act play about that four-year struggle to climb high school’s social ladder, Thursday, April 30.For Jenny, Brittany Todd and the rest of their “cool clan,” things are going pretty smoothly at River Ridge High. Then new girl Beth shows up, looking “like a walking kick-me […]

A day which is believed to be a record breaker for this time of the year at Lake Auburn was Thursday when eight good-sized salmon were landed at Lake Auburn. This number a little later would not be unusual but with the weather as it has been since the ice went out this week it […]

A Lewiston lady remarked recently upon the frequent use of profanity among young boys and the habit seems to have become firmly fixed upon a great many boys.It is quite a common thing to hear boys gathered together in the street or in a field playing some game using oaths which are not at all […]

Go and doWHAT: Androscoggin Valley Community Orchestra concertWHEN: 3 p.m. Sunday, May 3 WHERE: Franco-American Heritage CenterTICKETS: $7, $6 for seniors, free to students; available at the door Musical bloodline AVCO will perform music composed by the great-great uncle of an orchestra member LEWISTON – To say that music runs in the family only begins […]