AUBURN – Adam Klein grabbed one edge of a 10-foot-tall wall and started walking.The entire wall, attached at one end by hinges, opened as easily as a well-read book. Klein, Community Little Theatre’s production manager, beamed.“When you start a show, do you do a bare stage?” he asked. “Or do you do a couple of […]

From Boston by way of Milwaukee and Dublin, singer/songwriter Peter Mulvey is a passionate rock troubadour and a beat poet for the new millennium. The Washington Post praised his songwriting as “Walt Whitman-like catalogues of images that blend into cinematic visions of love and corruption.” Mulvey will bring his acoustic rock to The Maple Room, […]

• SKILLINGS- The Post Office Department at Washington today gave notice that the Skillings post office will be discontinued Saturday, Oct. 12. The people living in this place will then receive their mail by free delivery from the Auburn post office. The Turner mail will be sent from the Auburn office on the Auburn-Turner electrics. […]

AUBURN – Comedy wil return to The Fireside Inn & Suites, formerly the Auburn Inn, Saturday, Oct. 20, with a show featuring two popular New England’ comedians: Bob Seibel and Amy Tee.The son of German immigrants, Seibel of Lynn, Mass., tried factory work and school teaching before he discovered he could get paid for making […]

PORTLAND – Internationally acclaimed pianist William Wolfram will join conductor and artistic advisor Joseph Silverstein for the opening concert of the Portland Symphony’s Orchestra’s 83nd season Tuesday, Oct. 16, at Merrill Auditorium.Seating for this concert is limited, with tickets in some price sections still available. Preceding the performance at 6:15 p.m., a Concert Conversation with […]

Bates College series features American roots, opera, and Indonesian and classical music LEWISTON – The 2007-08 Bates College Concert Series is bringing American roots music and the sounds of Indonesian gamelan to the campus in coming months, along with some distinguished classical musicians.The season-opener is a concert by Inon Barnatan, a young pianist described by […]

BRUNSWICK – Maine native Duncan J. Cumming will perform a piano recital at 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12, on the Bowdoin College campus.The concert in Studzinski Recital Hall, Kanbar Auditorium, is open to the public. Admission is free.Cumming’s program will include Debussy’s Preludes V and VII, von Weber’s Sonata in C Major, Chopin’s Scherzo in […]

AUBURN – Music by Magic, a popular vocal and instrumental group specializing in easy-listening standards from the 1930s through the ’70s, will perform at the Androscoggin Habitat for Humanity art auction gala Thursday, Oct. 11.The fundraiser will be held at the Hilton Garden Inn Auburn Riverwatch.Members of the group have a long history of musical […]

FARMINGTON – Ron and Deb Hodge of New Beginnings Gospel Music Ministries will hold their first harvest homecoming concert Saturday, Oct. 13, at the University of Maine at Farmington. The concert will be from 6 to 10 p.m. in Nordica Auditorium in Merrill Hall.Scheduled to perform besides New Beginnings are Journey Home, The Campbells and […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) – When Dana Carvey was approached to host an online celebration of popular movies, the comedian couldn’t resist adding a few flourishes.Working in what he describes as a “miniature TV studio” set up in a spare bedroom of his Northern California home, Carvey taped comic riffs on films including “True Lies” with […]