BANGOR – Tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 17, for Celtic Woman’s performance in March.Tickets will be sold at the Bangor Auditorium box office in the Bass Park Complex, 100 Dutton St. Box office’s hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. Tickets may be also be purchased by […]

LEWISTON – The Vineyard Church-Lewiston will present its “Gift of Giving” program at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 23, at the Lewiston Armory, 65 Central Ave.The gala will feature Christmas carols, video clips from “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” a narration of the “Reason for the Season,” live music and dance, presents for the kiddies, hot cider […]

WHAT: “Care Bears Live: Caring and Sharing Friends”WHEN: at 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 13;at 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 14;and at 1 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 15TICKETS: $12 and $14, with a limited number of $18 premium seats availableWHAT: Mötley CrüeWHEN: Monday, March 6TICKETS: $47 and $77. To buy, call 877-468-4946 […]

NEW YORK (AP) – In the dozen years between that sunny summer afternoon at Jones Beach and a frigid winter morning in the Bronx, life went terribly wrong for Lillo Brancato Jr.It was in July 1993 that the handsome teen strolled out of the Atlantic Ocean and into a Hollywood career. A casting director on […]

By Christy Lemire,AP Movie Critic As the war on Christmas rages across the nation – at least on Fox News Channel – the holiday remains firmly intact with “The Family Stone,” your typical feel-good, feel-bad, feel-good-again family Christmas movie.Writer-director Thomas Bezucha packs his idyllic, snow-covered New England setting with all the familiar elements of the […]

By Tanya Barrientos,The Philadelphia Inquirer Before the Grammy nominations were even announced, Kanye West went ahead and declared himself winner of the album of the year.Now, he’s backing down. But only a little bit.“I actually haven’t listened to Paul McCartney’s album, I won’t lie to you about that,” he told MTV News. “I’m going to […]

By Mark Griffin,Special to Encore What do you call a perpetually displaced but scrappy survivor forced to fashion an entire world from basically nothing?Some informed observers might respond with “an Acadian exile” and they’d be right on the money; but for those who answered “a documentary filmmaker named Brenda Jepson,” they’d be equally correct.“If I […]

LEWISTON – A Service of Lessons and Carols will be celebrated at Saints Peter and Paul Basilica beginning at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 17.Listen to the Christmas story as told through Scripture, sing favorite seasonal hymns, and enjoy Advent and Christmas music as performed by the Basilica Choir, accompanied by John Corrie on the great […]

BRUNSWICK – “Wales, Tunes & Tales” will open at 7:30 p.m. today at The Theater Project on School Street. It will play again at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday.“Wales, Tunes & Tales” is a collection of holiday stories and music. “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” is the keystone of this collection, which […]

Ex-employee sues Dave Chappelle, says comic didn’t pay him NEW YORK (AP) – One of Dave Chappelle’s former employees says the comic asked him to be his manager for nine months beginning last year, but never paid him.In a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, Mustafa Abuelhija said Chappelle told him in September 2004 […]