L/A Arts will bring Red Molly, a female trio performing classic and contemporary Americana and pure-pitch country, to the Ramada Inn and Convention Center in Lewiston at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 17. The women, who tour nationally, are known for their three-part harmonies, crisp musicianship and warm, engaging stage presence. For tickets, $24 and $19, […]

LEWISTON – A trio of textile-related exhibits will open at the Atrium Art Gallery Friday, April 17, with a free reception open to the public from 6 to 8 p.m.In the main gallery, the exhibition “Alice Spencer — Fabricating Time: Paintings and Collected Textiles” features work by Portland artist Alice Spencer inspired by textiles from […]

PORTLAND – The Portland Museum of Art is once again showing its annual Art Biennial – with some radical changes.The focus is on one subject only, the environment.And instead of the usual 75 to 90 pieces of art, the 2009 Biennial features only 29 works. Some are small in size; others are gigantic, as in […]

The Lewiston and Auburn Publicity Bureau at a meeting held in the office of R. W. Smith Esq., Auburn, last evening voted to issue at once 10,000 post cards in triplicate form to advertise these two cities. Views for the cards were selected and other business transacted. The inactivity of some of the members of […]

BRUNSWICK – Maine State Music Theatre’s 51st season, which begins June 3, features four award-winning musicals new to the MSMT stage along with three children’s musicals and a concert by Grammy-nominated a cappella group Toxic Audio.The summer will begin with “The Light In The Piazza” followed by Gershwin’s “Crazy for You,” “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” and […]

AUBURN – Present Company, a trio made up of Lorna Jollymore, Diane Meservier and Margaret Sjostrom, will provide the entertainment Saturday, April 18, at a fundraiser benefiting the work of Rebekah Oddfellowship.The trio has been entertaining audiences for more than 20 years, with Jollymore on keyboards. Vocalists Meservier and Sjostrom perform solo, but, for the […]

LEWISTON – Tickets for the May 30 “Echoes in Time” concert to benefit Museum LA are available at two locations.To purchase tickets to the dance and show for the gourmet meal and floor seating at $85 each, people are encouraged to call Museum LA at 333-3881. To purchase reserved stadium seats for the dance and […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Miley Cyrus and alter-ego Hannah Montana have double-teamed their way to another No. 1 box office debut. Walt Disney’s “Hannah Montana: The Movie” opened with $34 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. That followed Cyrus’ first-place premiere last year with her 3-D concert film. The movie is a […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Glenn Beck, Fox News Channel’s latest sensation, is taking a comedy show on the road for six live performances over six days during the first week of June. Beck calls his act a “poor man’s Seinfeld” and intends to mix topical humor with his modern-day reimagining of Thomas Paine’s 1776 pamphlet […]

100 years ago, 1909 Early Sunday morning, a Lewiston police officer discovered a young colt running about loose on Park Street near the telephone office. After quite a chase the officer captured the animal, with the assistance of a friend, and put it in the patrol barn for the remainder of the night. Sunday, the […]