The North Atlantic Blues Festival will celebrate its 26th anniversary on Saturday and Sunday, July 13 and 14, at Rockland’s Public Landing in Rockland. The show will start at 11 a.m. Saturday with Joe Moss, Annika Chambers, Carolyn Wonderl, and Rick Estrin and the Nightcats. On Sunday, the show starts at 11 a.m. with the […]
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Bath Waterfront Concert Series set for July 13-Aug. 31
The Chocolate Church Arts Center will present free weekly concerts at 6 p.m. on Saturdays at Waterfront Park in Bath. This year’s series, which is presented in collaboration with Main Street Bath and The City of Bath, highlights some of Maine’s best regional performers, and runs for eight weeks from July 13 to Aug. 31. […]
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‘Preposterous’ to be staged in South Paris
Celebration Barn will present Happenstance Theater’s “Prepsterous!’ at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 13, at 190 Stock Farm Road in South Paris. Described as a family-friendly but sophisticated take on the traditional circus, the production stars vintage clowns who play all of the roles in the circus. Tickets cost $16 for adults, $14 for seniors (60-plus), […]
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‘Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery’ to open at Cumston Hall
“Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery,” by Ken Ludwig and directed by Matthew Arbour, will open Thursday, July 11, and play through Aug. 15, at The Theater at Monmouth, 796 Main St. in Monmouth. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson must solve the mystery before the Baskerville family curse dooms its next heir. Watch as […]
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Fresh from the lab: Startups make meat that avoids slaughter
As demand for meat grows, supporters say cell-based protein is more sustainable than traditional meat because it doesn’t require the land, water and crops needed to raise livestock – a major source of greenhouse gas emissions.
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A peek into opioid users’ brains as they try to quit
NIH scientists seek people willing to have their brains scanned as they try to kick opioids, to see how addiction medicines may help healing.
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End of the road for Volkswagen Beetle
Production will stop for a vehicle that has symbolized many things over a history spanning the eight decades since 1938.
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Tartan Terrors to perform July 12 in Phillips
The Tartan Terrors will bring their hijinks, wild humor, and high energy Celtic music back to the Phillips Area Community Center for a 7 p.m. concert Friday, July 12, at 15 Depot St. in Phillips. Their music, Pam Matthews, event organizer, said in a news release, “is as lively as it gets and they put […]
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Atlantic Music Festival event planned at Colby College
The Atlantic Music Festival returns to Colby College for its 11th summer, bringing together world-class musicians and rising talent to present groundbreaking world premieres and classical masterworks. A diverse group of composers, instrumentalists, vocalists and conductors will fill Colby College’s wooded campus with music through July 27. The Festival’s mission — to cultivate originality, independence […]
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Shephard exhibit on view through Sept. 3
‘Animal Alchemy’ presents a collection of interpretive and colorful creatures on fabric.