When Charles Frohman presents Miss Ethel Barrymore at the Empire Theatre this evening in “Lady Frederick,” local theatregoers will have the opportunity of seeing the play that New York has raved over for the greater part of the current season. It is a comedy in three acts by W. Somerset Maugham with the scenes laid […]

AUBURN: Photos by Asherah Cinnamon will be featured through April 10 at Temple Shalom Synagogue Center, 74 Bradman St. Gallery hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Thursday and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday. 786-4201 AUGUSTA: Works by Dennis Pinette and Samuel Gelber will be displayed through April 30 at the Maine State Museum, State […]

LOS ANGELES – Sitting inside his palatial Hollywood Hills mansion, Adam Carolla and his talk show host pal Jimmy Kimmel chat candidly – in a frenetic, almost stream-of-consciousness way – about pornography, Siegfried and Roy, the modeling industry, gay rodeos and the children’s book “Where the Wild Things Are.” The former hosts of Comedy Central’s […]

NORWAY- A fundraising kickoff called “Let the Dough Fly!” will be held Friday, April 3, for the 2009 Norway Arts Festival and Sidewalk Art Show to be held July 11.Featured will be a homemade meal of pasta, salad, focaccia and dessert.This year, the festival’s focus will be “Looking Up in Norway: Weathervanes, Cupolas & Steeples.”Providing […]

“The Class,” winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, will open Friday, March 27, at the Eveningstar Cinema in Brunswick. The film from France, directed by Laurent Cantet, depicts a year in the life of a French schoolteacher working in a tough multicultural part of Paris. It is based on a […]

LEWISTON – The YWCA of Central Maine will host a watch party for the premiere episode of HBO’s new drama series, “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency,” centered around a female character who exudes confidence, independence, compassion, optimism, determination and inspiration. The showing will be at 5:30 p.m. Friday, April 3, at the YWCA, 130 […]

AUBURN – Singer/pianist Mary Murphy will perform from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, March 28, at Holly’s Own Deli & Wine Bar, 84 Court St. On March 15, she won a songwriting award from the North America Country Music Associations International for her song, “The Spirit Of Christmas Lingers,” at a ceremony in Pigeon Forge, […]

This fluid has been used for years by an Auburn woman and is excellent to add to the water when you wish to bleach sheets, pillow cases and white counterpanes that have yellowed during the winter: Take one pound of potash, one ounce salts of tartar, and one ounce liquid ammonia. Put the salts of […]

NORWAY – Visitors to Guy E. Rowe School will have an opportunity Sunday, March 29, to try on some traditional African clothing, taste some African food, carry firewood on their heads and hunt for “termites” in a “termite mound.” Art Moves will dance to Inanna drumming and there will be speakers all afternoon, including a […]

FARMINGTON – On Saturday, April 11, Maine Mountain Chamber Music will bring violinists Jesse Mills and Cyrus Beroukhim, and cellist Jan Müller-Szeraws to Nordica Auditorium at the University of Maine at Farmington They will join MMCM directors violist Laurie Kennedy and pianist Yuri Funahashi for a program featuring the music of Latin American and Spanish […]