AUGUSTA – At noon on Friday, March 6, the Augusta Civic Center will open to the 33rd annual Augusta Boat Show. Featured at the weekend event will be pontoon, aluminum and fiberglass boats,; center consoles; sports fishing boats; decks; canoes; kayaks; IOs and outboards; and a marine parts store.Attendees will be able to learn more […]

AUBURN – The popular folk duo Schooner Fare will perform Saturday, Feb. 28, at Great Falls Performing Arts Center. The performance will benefit the Odd Fellows’ and Rebekahs’ Home of Maine.Schooner Fare began performing in 1975, with members Chuck and Steve Romanoff and Tom Rowe. Since Rowe’s death in January 2004, the Romanoffs have continued […]

Go and doWHO: Pianist/songwriter Kenny WhiteWHAT: L/A Arts concertWHEN: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27WHERE: Franco-American Heritage Center, 46 Cedar St., LewistonTICKETS: $24/$19 for students and seniors; call 782-7228 or visit www.laarts.org ‘Why haven’t I heard of this guy before?’ L/A Arts bring piano-player and songwriter Kenny White to Franco center You know the music is […]

LEWISTON – Mystery for Hire continues its murder-mystery dinner theater at Marco’s Restaurant Saturday, Feb. 28, with a performance of “Murder at the Last Chance Bar & Grill.”The show has a country-western theme, said Dan Marois, who with his wife, Denise, owns and operates Mystery for Hire. “We haven’t performed this show in more than […]

PORTLAND – The Portland Museum of Art will premiere Movies at the Museum with a screening of “A Hard Day’s Night” at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20. This is the first film in the Rock & Reel series in conjunction with the ongoing exhibition “Backstage Pass: Rock & Roll Photography.”Rock & Reel weekend will continue […]

“The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World’s Largest Unsolved Art Theft,” by Ulrich Boser; Collins; 272 pages; $25.99Just after midnight on March 18, 1990, two men wearing police uniforms knocked on the door of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, informing the guard on duty that they had received a complaint about […]

Residents of Sabattus and vicinity will have the opportunity of witnessing a moving picture show here in the village at least once a week before long. E.A. Mason has at last made arrangements for securing films and will soon start a show in Temperance Hall. It is his intention to give a picture show on […]

Concert ticket prices have doubled in the last decade, and consumers can expect no relief now that Live Nation and Ticketmaster, the two most powerful entities in the concert business, confirmed Tuesday their intentions to merge.It’s easy to see why Live Nation Inc. and Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. want to blend their operations into a new […]

Eddie Conway, the popular baseball umpire and timekeeper, has now started in the cigar business for himself. Conway is one of the most expert cigar makers in the two cities and has been working at his trade for a number of years. He has now opened a shop at 139 Main St., which is directly […]

AUBURN – Lewiston-Auburn Community Little Theatre’s next production will be “Drood,” a musical comedy by Rupert Holmes, opening March 20 at Great Falls Performing Arts Center.“Drood” kicks off when the Music Hall Royale, a loony Victorian musical troupe, “puts on” its flamboyant rendition of an unfinished Charles Dickens mystery. The story revolves around John Jasper, […]