FARMINGTON – Anyone who would like to act, sing, operate a giant puppet, or help with lights, sound or backstage tasks is invited to audition or sign up to participate in the Foothills Arts Center’s multimedia production “Hurricane of Change.”The show, a community reflection on climate change, will include original music, theater scenes, shadow puppets, […]

NEW YORK – Flash back to last fall: With intense buzz surrounding “Lost,” ABC split Season Three in two, hoping to launch new shows “The Nine” and “Day Break” and eliminate grumbling about reruns.Cut back to the present: Not only has ABC canceled both new shows (which got good reviews but few viewers), but the […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Jeff Zucker, who made his mark as executive producer of NBC’s “Today” show, is expected to be named chief executive of NBC Universal this week, a newspaper reported Sunday.Zucker, 41, will succeed Bob Wright, who has headed the network for 21 years, company sources told the Los Angeles Times.An NBC spokesman […]

• The nine days bazaar for the benefit of the new St. Peter’s Church of Lewiston was opened in City Hall last evening. The evening’s program was under the charge of the Ligue Catholique, Ordre St. Dominique and St. Francois.The decorations are the handsomest ever seen at any fair ever held in City Hall. In […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) – The fright film “The Messengers,” about a city family that moves into a creepy haunted house in the country, debuted as the top weekend movie with $14.5 million in ticket sales.Opening in second place was Diane Keaton and Mandy Moore’s mother-daughter comedy “Because I Said So,” the Universal release taking in […]

NEW YORK (AP) ­­- New York Fashion Week opened Friday amid an international debate about too-thin models, yet the first major runway show of the event featured women of all shapes, sizes, ages and colors.And the crowd loved it.That first show on the catwalks at Bryant Park was the Heart Truth show, an annual event […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, becomes the American Cancer Society’s Mother of the Year this week.Ferguson, 47, is the mother of two teenage girls, princesses Beatrice and Eugenie. She says cancer prevention begins by being a good role model.“They see that I go running, I get on my bicycle, I do […]

LONDON (AP) – Daniel Craig was honored but Helen Mirren was denied Sunday at the 34th annual Evening Standard British Film Awards.Craig was named best actor for “Casino Royale,” his debut outing as James Bond. Craig, who has won both critical praise and box office favor as the first blond Bond, is also up for […]

(Say the word “oatmeal” and chances are, images of cold winter mornings of your childhood come to mind – mornings when Mom served steaming bowls of the breakfast cereal topped with cinnamon, butter and cream.The image is cozy, and the dish is, too, but it’s so limiting for such a tasty oat.Here are five unexpected […]

RALEIGH, N.C. – The Hippie Era reminders are coming hot and heavy these days.This month was the 40th anniversary of the Human Be-In at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. June marks four decades since the Beatles’ boomer-revered “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” LP. Not to mention ’67’s Summer of Love.But these aren’t likely to […]