FARMINGTON – Valentine’s Day falls on a Saturday this year, which can mean only one thing – the day before is Friday the 13th. Playing up on that theme, western Maine’s newest improv comedy troupe, Teachers Lounge Mafia, will bring its “Bad Luck” show to the University of Maine at Farmington at 7:30 p.m. Feb. […]

GORHAM – Jordan Handren-Seavey, a 2003 Oxford Hills High School graduate, has a starring role in “Moonchildren,” a funny and emotionally earnest story of five college roommates teetering on the edge of real life in the late 1960s.The play, written by Michael Weller, will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Feb. 12-14, […]

FARMINGTON – Author Jaed Coffin is the first reader in the University of Maine at Farmington’s Spring 2009 Visiting Writers Series. He will read from his memoir “A Chant to Soothe Wild Elephants,” at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 5, at The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center.The literary event is free and open to […]

NORWAY – The first photography-only show of the Western Maine Art Group will be featured this month in the windows of the new Norway Savings Bank Operations Center on Main Street.On display will be photographs taken by Lee Margolin, Zakk Maher, Dr. Geoffrey Hosta, Skip Churchill and Janis Hutchins.The WMAG will schedule regular exhibits at […]

AUBURN – Comedian Tom Clark, who has been in the spotlight for two decades, will headline Comedy Night Saturday, Feb. 7, at The Fireside Inn & Suites. Also performing will be Carolyn Plummer and Tim Hoffman, who is from Portland.Clark’s comic beginnings are rooted in sketch comedy in the ’80s. He and fellow members in […]

Mrs. Mark Merrow of Auburn thinks that if people don’t believe that chickens pay they better talk with her. From thirty hens in the month of December she got two hundred and twenty seven eggs and in the month of January three hundred and forty eight. Almost forty-eight dozen, and with prices ranging from forty-five […]

Saturday, Feb. 7, Steve M and the Chicks with Sticks will bring the warm, soothing sounds of steel pan drums to Holly’s Own Deli & Restaurant for a midwinter Caribbean beach party. The show will run from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. There is no cover charge. Holly’s is at 84 Court St., Auburn, where every […]

LEWISTON – Elizabeth Wilcox, a senior from South Glastonbury, Conn., will direct the ninth annual Bates College production of Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues” Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Feb. 5-7. The Obie Award-winning play, which premiered 13 years ago, is based on interviews Ensler conducted with more than 200 women about their sexuality, their bodies […]

Mrs. Fannie Braley of Middle Street, Lewiston, has been called to Litchfield by the serious illness of her father, George Plimpton. Mr. Plimpton is one of the best known men of the town and for many years was associated with his brother Warren in the management of the Plimpton Hoe Factory. For many years this […]

LEWISTON – When 20-plus artists looked for topics for the newest, themed exhibit in L/A Arts’ Gallery 5, they closely examined frogs, flowers, feathers, cars, candy, wine and more.The juried “Up Close and Personal” exhibition will open Wednesday, Feb. 4, with a public reception from 5 to 7 p.m.; followed by an Artist Talk from […]