PORTLAND – They’re back.The boy band that filled concert venues to capacity, sent girls screaming and sold 80 million records of American pop music worldwide in the 1980s and ’90s – is back on tour.And as part of its spring 2009 tour, New Kids On The Block will make a stop Wednesday, March 25, at […]

On Friday, Jan. 23, Drew Heinonen, an open mic regular, will play guitar at Holly’s Own Deli and Restaurant, 84 Court St., Auburn. Heinonen, who crafts and makes guitars by hand, writes his original music and plays covers. The show runs from 7 to 10 p.m. There is no cover. Open-mic nights are on Wednesdays. […]

In a game characterized by much unnecessary roughness on the part of the Bates sophomore team, Edward Little High’s basketball team won last evening by a score of 30 to 18. From the start the college men, who greatly outweighed their opponents, showed a tendency to be rough and it was only natural that after […]

AUBURN – The energetic and funny Mike Prior will headline the Saturday, Jan. 24, comedy show at The Fireside Inn & Suites. Also performing will be Portland favorite Dennis Fogg and Boston’s Matt Shirley.A school teacher by day, Prior has long been one of the top crowd-pleasing comics on the Boston scene. He brings his […]

BRUNSWICK – An evening of quantum electrodynamics equals a good time. Sounds like fishy math, but The Theater Project hopes to prove it’s a winning formula when it presents “QED,” an almost one-man show that gives a glimpse into the personality that was Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman.Feynman’s work on developing the atomic bomb […]

The coming season might be a great one for Catcher Bill Carrigan, pride of Lewiston, Maine, now the veteran backstop of the Red Sox and the man upon whom not only the fans and the management but every pitcher on the Boston American staff will depend as the one best fitted to fill a grand […]

LEWISTON – All educators are invited to attend the 7 p.m. preview of “Collected Stories” Thursday, Jan. 22, at The Public Theatre. Admission is free.“It’s our way of saying thanks to the teachers who play a major role in helping us develop the theatergoers of tomorrow,” said Artistic Director Christopher Schario. “Last season over 5,000 […]

“How did we get here? How did all this happen?”Those are Dr. Jack Shepherd’s big questions as Season 5 of “Lost” arrives – at last! – on Wednesday.Fans have their own questions, some of them more concrete. As in: Where did the island go when it vanished with a flash and a clunk in last […]

MONMOUTH – “Wit” is not about death, even though its leading character is dying of cancer and is in a hospital bed through a lot of this play. “Wit” is not about the complicated 17th century poetry of John Donne, although she talks about it all the time. “Wit” is not about medical research, although […]

LEWISTON – Samuel James, a master of fingerstyle, slide, banjo, harmonica and piano, will perform Friday, Jan. 23, at the restaurant/cafe She Doesn’t Like Guthries.James’ musical lineage stretches back to immediate post-slavery. His grandfather, who was born in 1890, played guitar in contemporary blues styles of the era. James’ father was a professional pianist and […]