WILTON – The Foothills Arts Center will celebrate its 20th anniversary with an exhibit by four Foothills artist-teachers and a student photographer. “Looking from the Inside Out” opens with a public reception and party from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 1, at the arts center in the Bass-Wilson Building.One spectacular piece in the exhibit […]

LEWISTON – Ninety-three-year-old pianist Frank Glazer, one of Maine’s best-known musicians, will performs at Bates College in two concerts marking the anniversaries of important debuts in his long career.At 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 1, Glazer and musicians from the Portland Chamber Music Festival will celebrate the 80th anniversary of the pianist’s first and only performance […]

CARTHAGE – New England Celtic Arts will present the Tannahill Weavers, one of Scotland’s premier traditional bands, Tuesday, Feb. 3, at The Skye Theatre Performing Arts Center and Wednesday, Feb. 4, at Lakeside Theater in Rangeley.Both concerts are at 7 p.m. There will be a preshow jam session at 6:15 p.m. at Skye when audience […]

BEVERLY HILLS – Actor Eric McCormack figures he inherited his comic timing from his dad. The actor who played Will on “Will & Grace” recalls when he was 10 he fell off his bicycle and gashed his chin on the curb.“I remember it being a moment of comic timing,” he says, in a sun-filled room […]

I can’t lie. I found Fox’s “Lie to Me,” about a brilliant deception expert, to be predictable, standard fare.Dr. Cal Lightman (Tim Roth) can detect fibbing through body language, a handshake and or an expression.“Truth is written on all our faces,” Lightman says.Color me disappointed. Lightman’s tricks are more intriguing than his cases in the […]

The inaugural concert telecast Sunday on HBO from the Lincoln Memorial had a sense of history and seriousness of purpose – sprinkled with a little frat party.The latter came when Garth Brooks, backed by a youthful chorus, sang the rock staple “Shout.” Thousands of spectators raised their hands in the time-honored dance.What was “Shout” doing […]

PORTLAND – Superstar soprano Renée Fleming will make her Maine debut with the Portland Symphony Orchestra, honoring Robert Moody’s inaugural season at an endowment benefit concert.The event will be at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 17, at Merrill Auditorium.One of the greatest sopranos of any era, Fleming’s purity of tone, musical intelligence and grace allow her […]

LOS ANGELES – Kevin James bumbles and stumbles to take down the bad guys, but his “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” had no trouble nabbing the top spot at the box office this weekend.The PG-rated comedy, starring James as a portly shopping center security guard who tries to foil a bank heist, made $33.8 million in […]

Residents of the two cities woke Sunday morning to find a genuine, old-fashioned New England blizzard raging. After a night of extreme cold it began to snow shortly after 5 a.m., and kept it up until about 6 o’clock in the afternoon when after a slight downfall of sleet it stopped snowing. The local car […]

Aranka Matolcsy, the new executive director of Mahoosuc Arts Council, was literally born into the arts.Both her parents were artists and teachers imparting their passions to Aranka as early as she can remember. Her mother, Claire Couri Matolcsy, was a modern dancer who studied with Martha Graham and Alvin Ailey. Her father, Lajos Matolcsy, was […]