It’s the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, three days before the final performances of the Early Evening Show, and Mike Miclon is bringing a giant, wrinkled Hubbard squash from his car into Amanda Houtari’s house. The large, brown, bumpy vegetable is playing a critical part in the sketch they were rehearsing . . . as a turkey. […]
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Sights Unseen: Inside the Lewiston Public Works garage
Redundancy and backup equipment may seem like overkill, like an extra set of chains already made and hanging in the garage for every vehicle, but having to wait for a replacement to be made during a snowstorm is not practical. While there are a few new tools and machines, much of what is used in […]
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Eats: New Fire House Grille pumps it up
It was a busy day at the Fire House Grille in Auburn last Saturday, what with the robust lunch crowd and the steady stream of customers stopping by to pick up baked bean specials for their Saturday night dinners. Co-owners John Roy and Victor Mathieu opened the pub-style restaurant in November at 47 Broad St., […]
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Face Time: Sue Conklin (and Co.) — Teacher by day, weather forecaster by … also day
During the November storm that dumped more than a half-foot of snow across the region, I had the good fortune of speaking with Sue Conklin. It was Conklin, a Lewiston school teacher, who pointed out a strange thing happening with the weather during that particular storm: Somewhere around mid-day, the storm came to an end […]
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Awful good falafel — Eats: Fast-rising Bates chef loves Mediterranean cuisine
His success story began when he was a young pot scrubber working at Bates College in 1992, a year before his graduation from Lewiston High School. By 1994, Owen Keene had tossed out the dish water in exchange for stocking the salad bar with fresh food. Soon after, he transitioned into the kitchen as a […]
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Nightlife calendar
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 Sunday Night Dance Party with Steve Colella, 8 p.m., Mixers, Sabattus Karaoke, 8 p.m. to midnight, Schemengee’s Bar and Grille, Lewiston […]
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Face Time: Dawn McAndrews — Telling stories and building community as Monmouth theater’s new director
The Theater at Monmouth’s new producing artistic director is on board (pun intended — she got here just in time to direct the fall’s train-based romp “On the Twentieth Century”). And busy, despite being the so-called off-season. And mostly, happy to be back in Maine with her family. She’s worked in Missouri, California, Illinois, New […]
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Sights Unseen: spirited distribution
Lewiston is the home of two major beer and wine distributors in the state, Federal Distributors on Lisbon Road and, a half-mile away, Central Distributors on Foss Road. In the early morning hours, about 4 a.m., the warehouses at both facilities are buzzing as more than 40 distribution trucks are loaded and then head out […]
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The b Section Unofficial Guide to Surviving Without Cable or Satellite TV (if you have to)
The merry holiday season is upon us, but a lack of entertainment funds has left you seriously ho ho hopeless, are we right? Instead, a TV plague has descended on you because you can’t afford cable, satellite or any of the other common methods of connecting you with the critical life-force known as “my favorite […]