Some events require tickets or are subject to other limitations. If in doubt, we recommend you contact the venue. Night Life listings must be e-mailed to [email protected] and received no later than Monday. Tonight Opera: Tosca, 7 p.m., Frontier, Brunswick Sunday Night Dance Party with Steve Colella, 8 p.m., Mixers, Sabattus Open Mic Blues Jam […]

With visions of bright red tomatoes and succulent sweet corn lodged securely in my head, now comes other thoughts of the perennial and annual flowers we hope to raise this summer. Some years, not only do a few bright yellow sunflowers re-seed themselves in the garden, but one early summer as I was looking into […]

Sometimes I sit in quiet contemplation, thinking about what things would have been like if Shakespeare had been a fan of the Really Bad Word. You know. Romeo could have used the word to describe the frustrations of young love or to better emphasize the beauty at yonder window. Or perhaps we would have Macbeth […]

Gardening is a magical and mystical experience to me. It’s something I’ve been doing for more than 30 years, and something I hope to be able to do, one way or another, for as long as possible. When those tiny seeds turn into seedlings, I feel it is a magical experience. How can that happen? […]

It’s amazing how much you can learn about someone while enjoying a meal of chicken fingers and fries. Last week, I got the pleasure of having lunch with Judy Lane at the Chuck Wagon Restaurant in Livermore Falls. The occasion? Judy, who lives in Jay, won a Sun Journal B-Section contest by correctly spotting 19 […]

Some events require tickets or are subject to other limitations. If in doubt, we recommend you contact the venue. Night Life listings must be e-mailed to [email protected] and received no later than Monday. Tonight Film: Wild Horse, Wild Ride, 5 and 8 p.m., Frontier, Brunswick Sunday Night Dance Party with Steve Colella, 8 p.m., Mixers, […]

It was almost 19 years ago, in August 1994, when Mac’s Grill opened up on Minot Avenue in Auburn, introducing the delicious attributes of its signature black Angus beef to the Lewiston-Auburn area. Now served up by a trio of new owners, the restaurant’s 10-ounce “mini mac” fillet-style sirloin remains one of their most popular […]

Whether or not you actually play poker, there’s no denying that the game has pervaded our culture. Among the seemingly endless varieties of poker in existence, Texas Hold’em, a game played with a combination of hidden and community cards, has emerged over the last couple of decades as perhaps the most popular, thanks in part […]