GARDINER — Maine Event Comedy presents 20-year comedy veteran Steve Scarfo at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, at Johnson Hall Performing Arts Center, 280 Water St. Jody Sloane will be the evening’s featured comedian along with host Mark Turcotte. Scarfo, a veteran of the Boston comedy scene, was noticed by The Boston Globe at his first […]
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Looking Back on Jan. 7
100 years ago: 1919 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, twenty-sixth President of the United States, who died at his home on Sagamore Hill will be laid to rest without pomp or ceremony, in Young’s Memorial Cemetery in this village, Wednesday afternoon. He will be buried on a knoll overlooking Long Island Sound, a plot which he and […]
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Opera based on Sarah Kane’s last play gets U.S. premiere
NEW YORK (AP) — Depression, rage, suicide: These are the dark ingredients of the last play written by Sarah Kane before she killed herself at age 28. Now an operatic version, as dazzling as it is disturbing, is having its U.S. premiere. “4.48 Psychosis,” composed by Philip Venables and adapted from the play of the […]
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Looking Back on Jan. 5
100 years ago: 1919 Mr. and Mrs. McLean of Rumford were notified last month by the War Department that their son, John W. McLean, had died on Oct. 16. Today they received a letter from their son, dated Dec. 4, saying that he was in a base hospital recovering from wounds and expected to start […]
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Roy Moore says he was duped into appearing on comedy show
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Former U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore says he didn’t know he was dealing with comedian Sacha Baron Cohen when he agreed to appear on a television show, his lawyers wrote in court filings last month. Moore in September filed a $95 million defamation lawsuit over his appearance on Baron Cohen’s “Who […]
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Maine-based duo Melon Shades to release debut album
BATH — What began as just another jam session for Henry Raker and Shawn Russell blossomed into a new duo: Melon Shades. Based mostly around prompted improvisation, Melon Shades dives through space, genres and time, leading listeners to a unique musical experience never heard before and never to be heard again. According to acloserlisten.com: “Guitar, […]
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Study finds ‘radical underrepresentation’ for women in film
NEW YORK (AP) — Despite widespread attention and protest over gender inequality in film, a new study finds that the number of female directors in the top 250 domestic grossing films last year dipped to 8 percent. That was down 3 percentage points from 2017, according to the 21st annual Celluloid Ceiling report released Thursday […]
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Looking Back on Jan. 4
100 years ago: 1919 The Wallace H. White Jr. Club of Lewiston will hold its first meeting of the municipal campaign in Republican headquarters Tuesday. George S. McCarty, whose fame as a speaker is not slight will be the principal speaker, Robert J. Hogdson will preside. Politics is getting ready to stir In Lewiston. While it […]
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Black Cat Road to play at The Cage
LEWISTON — The rock band Black Cat Road will play at 8 p.m. Friday at The Cage, 97 Ash St. There is no cover. For more information, call 207-783-0688.
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Brazen Cane, Shiny Objects to play Mixers this weekend
A weekend of live music at Mixers begins at 8:30 p.m. Friday when Southern Maine rock and roll band Brazen Cane will take the stage. Brazen Cane plays classic to rock, the best songs of the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s to today. They play music by bands like The Who, Sublime, Bryan Adams, CCR, The […]