LEWISTON – The Martel and Fortier chapters of the Association Canado-Americaine will present “La Grande Seduction” at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, March 22, at St. Mary’s Conference Center, 99 Campus Ave.The French comedy depicts the ordeals of a small, once striving village harbor, doomed to become a ghost town due to dwindling fish stock and unemployment. […]

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Beginning Thursday afternoon a baking carnival to show the merits of the Glenwood range commenced at the Atherton Company store in Lewiston.A stock pattern range was used for the baking and a large quantity of rolls, biscuits, bread, cake and doughnuts was cooked.In the afternoon the food cooked was sold for the benefit of St. […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Stephen Colbert is taking his Comedy Central show to the Persian Gulf.“The Colbert Report” will tape four shows performed for troops as part of a USO tour.Colbert, who announced the trip on Tuesday’s show, said in a statement that he couldn’t reveal his exact overseas destination, adding, “the fact that I […]

For more than 50 years, the National Acrobats of China has entertained audiences of all ages worldwide with Chinese martial arts, illusion and acrobatics – all set to traditional music. The company of 35 performers, which has excelled in international circus competitions, will take the stage at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 26, at Merrill Auditorium […]

Bayview Gallery will celebrate the first day of spring with an opening reception from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 20. The featured exhibit includes new work by Thomas Adkins, Harley Bartlett, Robert Colburn, Arnold Desmarais, Marieluise Hutchinson, Scott Moore, Stefan Pastuhov and John Roush. The celebration also includes the grand opening of The Alcove, […]

GARDINER – The Maine Hysterical Society will present its comedy/variety show of novelty songs, funny Maine characters, “wicked good” juggling and wacky sketches Friday, March 20, as part of Sounds Good! Music Live at Johnson Hall.This trio of artists/actors/musicians and Downeast humorists is made up of Randy Judkins, Barney Martin and Steve Underwood.Judkins is a […]

Guitar player Mark Miller, who has opened for such national acts as B.B. King, Johnny Winter, Taj Mahal, Waylon Jennings and Jonathan Edwards, will play Saturday, March 21, at Holly’s Own Deli & Restaurant. Miller will perform music from his 2009 CD, “Whatcha Gonna Do!.” The show will run from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.; there […]

PORTLAND – When the elevator opens onto the fourth floor, Portland Museum of Art visitors are struck by the natural beauty of Maine’s Cranberry Isles, courtesy of Gretna Campbell’s semi-abstract painting of tangled plants, rocks and trees with broad brush strokes of soft green, brown, purple and blue hues.Her artwork, “Maine Landscape #2 (Cranberry Island […]

NAPLES – The curtain will go up on the Lake Region High School drama club’s production of “Guys and Dolls” Thursday, April 2.The Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, set in 1950s New York, will be presented at 7 p.m. that night as well as Friday and Saturday, April 3-4; and at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 5.Tickets […]