BRUNSWICK – The Bowdoin College Library’s annual “Children’s Celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.” will be held from 10 to 11:30 a.m., on Monday, Jan. 19, in Lancaster Lounge, Moulton Union.Children’s book authors Rohan Henry (“The Perfect Gift”) and Charlotte Agell (“Dancing Feet,” “I Wear Long Green Hair in the Summer”) will be on hand […]

GRAY – Fiddlehead Center will celebrate its seventh anniversary Saturday, Jan. 17, with “Flamenco!” – an evening of tapas, cocktails, a Spanish dinner and a flamenco show.Festivities will begin at 6:30 p.m. with dancers taking the stage at 8 p.m. at the center at 25 Shaker Road. Tickets are $50 per person. For tickets, call […]

LEWISTON – The Maine Music Society will hold auditions for upcoming performances by the Androscoggin Chorale starting at 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 10, in the Concert Hall at the Olin Arts Center at Bates College.Under Artistic Director John Corrie, the chorale’s second concert of the season will be a performance of “Carmina Burana,” by Carl […]

Maine State Ballet and its affiliated performing arts school will present “Tap, Tap, Jazz” at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Jan. 23-24, at the Maine State Ballet Theater in Falmouth. Among those performing will be, above, Glenn Davis and Marissa Patten-Harris. Tickets are $12. Advance reservations recommended; call 781-7672. The ballet theater is at 348 […]

WASHINGTON – Early one cold November morning, actress Annie Wersching leads Kiefer Sutherland to an “armored” SUV with dark windows parked outside the U.S. Department of Agriculture building.After director Brad Turner yells “Cut,” onlookers snap photos of the star. Sutherland spots a participant in a charity run for Lupus on the Washington Mall and comments, […]

BUCKFIELD – What does it take to become magic’s only two-time Gold Medal champion? Only one magician has ever successfully discovered the answer: George Saterial. And he will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 17, at Oddfellow Theater.By merging a truly original concept with classic style, an obsession with perfection, charisma and tireless practice and […]

AUBURN – Comedian Bob Gautreau, one of New England’s most popular impressionists, will headline the Saturday, Jan. 10, comedy show at The Fireside Inn & Suites. He will perform with Sue Fracker and Derek Gerry.Gautreau creates a company of colorful characters from the worlds of politics and pop culture. Some crowd favorites: Robert DeNiro, Sly […]

Three races will be held by the Lewiston and Auburn Driving Club on the ice speedway, Friday, weather permitting. One will be for green trotters, another for green pacers and the third a 2.24 trot and pace. Twenty-five bushels of oats will be the purse for each race.The races will be quarter-mile heats, best three […]

LEWISTON – Lewiston High School’s performance of “Little Women,” scheduled for Friday and Saturday, Jan. 9-10, at Lewiston Middle School, has been postponed due to unforeseen problems at the performance site.Ticket sales have been stopped until the performance date can be reset.Anyone who has already purchased tickets will receive tickets for the new date, and […]

PORTLAND – The Portland Museum of Art will present a lecture by Greil Marcus, author, music journalist and cultural critic, at 6 p.m. Monday, Jan. 26, at the Holiday Inn By the Bay.The former Rolling Stone editor and acclaimed rock ‘n’ roll expert will discuss rock ‘n’ roll and the museum’s exhibition “Backstage Pass: Rock […]