LEWISTON — L/A Arts will kick of its new season with “An Evening with Groucho,” an award-winning show by Frank Ferrante picked by National Public Radio as one of the country’s top five solo shows. For more than 20 years and 2,500 performances, Ferrante has traveled the world entertaining audiences with this portrayal of American […]

LEWISTON — Ozzie Jones, a writer and director for stage and film, will discuss how film can bring young people’s voices into the discussion about teen violence on Monday, Oct. 17, at Bates College. A member of the Bates class of 1992, Jones is the inaugural speaker in the college’s Dr. Benjamin E. Mays Alumni […]

LEWISTON — During the first “Translations” poetry festival at Bates College in 2010, organizer Claudia Aburto Guzman had an encounter that seemed to crystallize the event for her. At the festival international poets read their works in the original language, with English translations prepared by Bates faculty and students. Working with Somali poet Omar Ahmed, […]

LEWISTON — Mary Jo McConahay, a journalist who began covering Guatemala and Central America as a correspondent in the 1980s, will discuss her book, “Maya Roads: One Woman’s Journey Among The People Of The Rainforest,” at Bates College on Thursday, Oct. 20. The writer, whose work has appeared in more than 30 magazines and periodicals, […]

LEWISTON — The Lewiston Public Library is partnering with the Sun Journal in an effort to solve the “Mystery of the Unknown Buildings” in its Gridley Barrows Collection. Back in 1999, when Lewiston architect and local historian Gridley Barrows died, the LPL received his collection of 5,244 photographic slides and more than 600 prints depicting […]