The Beach Boys will take the stage at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2, at Snow Pond Center for the Arts, 8 Goldenrod Lane in Sidney. You can capsulize most pop music acts by reciting how many hits they’ve had and how many millions of albums they’ve sold. But these conventional measurements fall short when you’re […]
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TV SERIES REVIEW: ‘The Dry’ is a strange, often bewildering sitcom
In the opening scenes of Paddy Breathnach and Nancy Harris’s “The Dry,” we meet Shiv (short for Siobhan played by Roisin Gallagher) arriving home unexpectedly from London in a cab. She seems surprised that no one in the family is there to meet her. Once you meet this family, you’ll wonder if she really grew […]
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ON MUSIC: Jontavious Willis says blues is about sharing the experience
Reconnecting with artists is always fun, especially when they are enthusiastic about our great State of Maine — such is the case of today’s chat with Jontavious Willis, who will be coming to One Longfellow Square. He called me from Luthersville, Georgia, on Jan. 5, and the bluesman was more than happy to talk with […]
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Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival concert to be featured on Maine Public Classical’s Maine Stage
The second concert of the 51st season of the Sebago-Long Lake Music Festival – performed at the Deertrees Theatre in Harrison on July 18, 2023 – will be broadcast at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 7, at on Maine Public Classical’s Maine Stage. The program features HAYDN: Divertissement in G Major for Flute, Violin and […]
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Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour to be presented at State Theatre
BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL WORLD TOUR The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour will return for its twenty-second year to Portland at 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 9 and 10, at the State Theatre in Portland. There will be different lineups of films each night. The Banff program, including the intermission, is approximately […]
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Welcome to Maine comedy show planned at Franco Center
The Welcome to Maine comedy show will be coming to the Franco Center at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 3, at 46 Cedar St. in Lewiston. Maine-based comedians Ian Stuart and James Theberge began filming the Welcome to Maine series in late 2020. As part of the comedy show, Stuart portrays Mark and Theberge portrays Troy, […]
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Local musician Michael Krapovicky to play Oasis of Music
Singer-songwriter Michael Krapovicky will perform at the Oasis of Music beginning at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 31, at Trinity Commons in Lewiston. Michael Krapovicky is a singer and songwriter… and also a multi-instrumentalist, member of multiple touring bands, recording engineer, mastering technician and producer. He has immersed himself in every facet of the music making […]
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UMF welcomes author Meghan Gillis as next Visiting Writer
Fiction writer Meghan Gillis will be the fourth reader of the 2023/24 season for the celebrated Visiting Writers Series at the University of Maine at Farmington. Gillis will read from her work at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 8, in The Landing in the UMF Olsen Student Center. The reading is free and open to […]
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The Public Theatre production of ‘Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help’ begins this weekend
“Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help,” featuring Scarlett Thomas as Becky and Kelsey Petersen as Linda, will play Jan. 26 through Feb. 4 at The Public Theatre in Lewiston. It’s 1973 and the O’Shea family faces a comic crisis of biblical proportions when the parish priest overhears their 19-year-old daughter tell her younger sister […]
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Dwayne Tomah, teacher of the Passamaquoddy language and culture, to give lecture at Bowdoin College
A lecture with Dwayne Tomah, “The Doctrine of Discovery From an Indigenous Perspective,” presented by the The Bowdoin Museum of Art will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 26, in the Kresge Auditorium of the Visual Arts Center. Tomah is a language keeper, director, and curator of the Sipayik Museum and teacher of […]