LEWISTON — L/A Arts has announced its live music lineup—an event first—for this year’s Ice Festival L/A, which will take place from Friday, Feb. 20-Sunday, Feb. 22, at The Bates Mill Atrium and Fountain Park courtyard, 150 Mill St. beside DaVinci’s Eatery. Ice Festival L/A is the biggest event of its kind in the state […]
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Art Institute sponsors silent film at UMF on Jan. 31
FARMINGTON — The Arts Institute of Western Maine will sponsor Silent Film Night at The Emery at 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31, featuring Doug Protsik playing live piano to Buster Keaton’s 1928 masterpiece “Steamboat Bill, Jr.” Protsik plays the “old-time piano” for dances, melodramas, honky tonk saloons, and silent movies. He learned his style from […]
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Early Evening Show featuring Miclon at Gardiner venue on Feb. 7
GARDINER — Johnson Hall Performing Arts Center on Water Street will present The Early Evening Show with Mike Miclon at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 7. Maine’s renowned variety entertainer and Johnson Hall’s Executive/Artistic Director will host the show. The premise is based on a spoof of a late-night talk show, but it’s not that simple. […]
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‘Citizenfour’ to be shown at Guthries Theater in Lewiston on multiple dates
Guthries Independent Theater will screen “Citizenfour” Jan. 24, 29-31. In January 2013, filmmaker Laura Poitras was in the process of constructing a film about abuses of national security in post-9/11 America when she started receiving encrypted e-mails from someone identifying himself as “citizen four,” who was ready to blow the whistle on the massive covert […]
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Comedy Fix benefit show coming to Auburn on Feb. 6
AUBURN — Boston’s highlights a great lineup of stand-up comedians for Comedy Fix XIX at the Auburn Fireside Inn. The show will take place at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6, with net proceeds benefiting Good Shepherd Food Bank. Comedy Fix founder Mark Turcotte will also welcome Chris Choate, Louie Martinez, Mike Levinsky and Heather Neal. […]
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Book reading with music, discussion at Farmington bakery on Feb. 12
FARMINGTON — At 5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12, at The Homestead Bakery Books, a book signing, reading, live music and discussion will take place regarding local author Peter Hardy’s new book “Thorn: The Prophet.” Hardy will sign and discuss his book which is the sequel to “Thorn: The Tree,” a parable of ecology and our […]
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Oble Varnum to perform at Guthries in Lewiston on Jan. 23
At 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 23, Oble Varnum will perform at She Doesn’t Like Guthries on Middle St. in Lewiston. is an original country folk band from Maine. Lead by singer/songwriter Seth Gallant, they play a mix of originals and classic country-western music. There is no cover charge. For more information, call 207-376-3344.
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Veggies doubleheader to open Jan. 23 at Irish Twins Pub in Lewiston
At 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 23, classic rock band will perform at Irish Twins Pub, 743 Main St. in Lewiston. Saturday, Jan. 24, the band will play at Pedro O’Hara’s at 134 Main St. in Lewiston. There is no cover charge at either venue.
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Maine Bones reunite for USM School of Music Concert in Gorham on Jan. 30
“Return of the Maine Bones: Mark Manduca and Friends” is at 8 p.m., Friday, Jan. 30, in Corthell Concert Hall, USM Gorham campus. The Maine Bones was founded in 1989 by Scott Reeves, associate professor of jazz history and performance at The City College of New York, who was a USM School of Music faculty […]
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Jan. 29, Bates College to host author of spy novel made acutely relevant by Charlie Hebdo attack
Amazon’s Best Book of the Month for November 2014, “The Happiest People in the World” was described by The Wall Street Journal as a “dark and funny satire” that “reflects the absurdity of any country obsessed with spying on its own people.” Admission to the event is free. For more information, call 207-786-6256. In Clarke’s […]