The Good Food Council of Lewiston-Auburn awarded the 2023 Youth Food Champion Award winners Jan. 15 at the Bates College MLK Day workshop Young Mainers’ Efforts for Food and Climate Justice. The event also included a talk on Food Sovereignty and Youth Activism from Scarlet Labbé-Watson from Maine Youth for Climate Justice. The awards are […]
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TV SERIES REVIEW: New ‘Monsieur Spade’ brings elements of classic to France
Clive Owen (“Inside Man,” “Croupier”) appears this week on AMC’s “Monsieur Spade” as Sam Spade. If that classic name seems familiar to you, you’re a lot older than you look. Sam Spade was famously the name on an office window atop Hyde Street in San Francisco, where the cable cars still turn. It spelled out […]
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Gaslight Theater sets 2 audition dates for ‘Four Old Broads’
HALLOWELL – Gaslight Theater is set to hold auditions at 6 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 12 and 13, for “Four Old Broads,” a play by Leslie Kimbell, directed by Lucy Rioux. Auditions will be held at Hallowell City Hall, 1 Winthrop St. Performances are scheduled for the same location on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, […]
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ON MUSIC: Different Augusta-based Breakin’ Strings back with new bluegrass music
A lot of the stories I write are sparked by something that catches my attention and this week’s entry is no exception. On a whim I clicked on the website of an Augusta-based bluegrass band called Breakin’ Strings because an old friend, Steve Peterson, from my days as an art teacher in Pittsfield, was once […]
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UMaine artists make life-size knight sculpture
The sculpture was created for History Live! North East, a nonprofit in Union.
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‘Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help’ to be staged at The Public Theatre
The “Incident at our Lady of Perpetual Help” will be staged Jan. 26 through Feb. 4 at The Public Theatre, at 31 Maple St. in Lewiston. Showtimes are at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 3 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, and 3 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 3. Take a trip down memory lane, to […]
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‘Oppenheimer,’ the Frankenstein’s monster that changed our world
“I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” A verse from the Bhagavad Gita, spoken by Oppenheimer while viewing the successful test of the first bomb. J. Robert Oppenheimer. A name forever burned in history and largely forgotten. Japanese cities like Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the two cities our bombers destroyed at the cost of great […]
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Early Beatles tribute band Studio Two back for 2 shows in January
Maine has become the most popular State for us, too, says Stephen Murray.
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Waterville society seeks singers for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9
WATERVILLE — The Colby-Kennebec Choral Society invites all interested singers to join it for performances of Beethoven’s monumental Symphony No. 9. Starting on Tuesday, Feb. 13, rehearsals are scheduled for 7-9:30 p.m. Tuesdays in the Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts on Mayflower Hill Drive at Colby College. The performances will be held Saturday […]
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Grace Potter show set for State Theater
Grace Potter’s Mother Road Tour with Brittney Spencer will take the stage at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 19, at State Theatre, at 609 Congress St. in Portland. Doors will open at 7 p.m. Back in summer 2021, Potter took off on a solo cross-country road trip that would soon bring a life-saving reconnection with her […]