The Mutineers will bring traditional folk, blues and old-time country music to She Doesn’t Like Guthries in Lewiston Friday, Feb. 20. The acoustic musical trio from Portland creates its sound with guitar, mandolin, acoustic bass, dobro and banjo. Saturday, Feb. 21, Belfast punk bands Rotundo Sealeg and The Scrapes will perform at the restaurant/cafe at […]

CARTHAGE – New England Celtic Arts will host acclaimed Scottish folk band Malinky Tuesday, March, 3, at Skye Theatre Performing Arts Center and Wednesday, March 4, at Lakeside Theater in Rangeley. Both concerts will start at 7 p.m. A pre-show jam will start at 6:15 at Skye Theatre.Formed in Edinburgh in 1998, Malinky showed its […]

A traveling man who was in town yesterday said that he found the sidewalks here worse than in any of the other cities he had visited. “Why, you don’t clear the snow off the sidewalks here! You just get a path through and let it go at that.” He said that there seemed to be […]

The Oddfellow Theater in Buckfield will present the first “Early Evening Shows” of 2009 on Friday and Saturday Feb. 20-21. Co-hosted by Jason Tardy, left and Mike Miclon, center, the show is a zany mix of Letterman, classic Carson and a splash of “Saturday Night Live” with a live band and special guests. Among those […]

AUBURN – Actor, filmmaker and comedian Quinn Collins of Portland will headline comedy night Saturday, Feb. 21, at the Fireside Inn & Suites. He will be joined by Brian Joyce and Steve Macone.Collins has appeared in seven films and written, directed and starred in five. He is a past winner of Portland’s Funniest Professional Comedy […]

LEWISTON – Borealis Breads founder Jim Amaral and food activist-author Mark Winne are among Bates College alumni featured in the “Nourishing Body and Mind: Bates Contemplates Food” initiative happening in March.The initiative explores the ramifications of food choices and spotlights Bates’ award-winning sustainable food-service practices.All events are open to the public at no cost.First up […]

The automobile registration has been unusually brisk thus far this year, 39 having been registered since Jan. 1, as compared with 14 for the same period in 1908. This brings the total registered in the State, since the law requiring the registration of automobiles went into effect in 1905, up to 3271.• Today will begin […]

NORWAY – The next Norway Open Mic Night will be held Friday, Feb. 27, at First Universalist Church, 479 Main St.Sign-up for performers begins at 6:30 p.m., with the open mic starting at 7 o’clock. Admission is a $3 donation at the door; refreshments available.Founded and hosted by Vessel Recordings artist Heather Pierson, Norway Open […]

MUMBAI, India – They are not your typical movie stars.Ten-year-old Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail lives in a lean-to made of tarpaulins and blankets. Nine-year-old Rubina Ali’s home is a tiny bubble-gum pink shack. A murky open sewer runs down her narrow lane.Plucked from one of Mumbai’s teeming slums to star in the Oscar-nominated hit “Slumdog Millionaire,” […]

HEBRON – The Hebron Academy Players will present “Once on this Island,” a musical by Lynn Ahrens and Michael Flaherty, Friday and Saturday, Feb. 27-28, at Androscoggin Theater.The 7:30 p.m. performance in the theater in Sargent Memorial Gymnasium is free and open to the public.“Once on this Island” is a lively tale that takes place […]