Raise your hand if you remember Polaroid cameras. Phone booths? Busy signals? VHS, boom boxes and cassette mix tapes? If you remember these, welcome. If you don’t, get the hell out of here. You people make us feel sick. More accurately, you make us feel old. For most people, there’s that one horrible event. Maybe […]

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 […]

A few years after closing her cafe — Just Joan’s — in the Mr. Paperback on Lisbon Street in Lewiston, Joan Pelletier’s baked goods are still remembered by many in town. Her brownies, cookies and whoopee pies used to fly out of her bakery displays, she said. Now they fly off the shelves at Runway […]

About 16 years ago, Peter Geiger decided to hand out oversized candy bars to the neighborhood kids who trick-or-treated at his door. He’s always enjoyed getting a big haul on Halloween and thought other kids would as well. Then he started offering multiple bars to kids who knew the secret password he’d announced on the […]

The mission was vital and a little bit dangerous. We needed pumpkins carved in the most intricate and unique manner, employing a variety of styles and approaches. And we needed them fast — by Halloween. Who you gonna call? We called on specialists, an elite group of nine “artists” from diverse backgrounds. A jeweler. A […]

Great rooms. McMansions. Jumbo mortgages. The American home — and everything associated with it — got supersized during the housing boom. Big was good. Bigger was better. Biggest was best of all. Not anymore. Now the B-word carries less cachet and more baggage. Home furnishings forecaster Michelle Lamb of the Trend Curve has noticed the […]